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Ciao professore
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This movie was recommended to me by a former professor of mine who uses the film in his Teacher Education courses.
Though billed as a comedy, Ciao Professore, touches on serious issues. Set in rural Italy, the film explores the idea of compulsory schooling, pragmatic education and portrays the teacher as both educator and "educatee". It also makes the important distinction between education and schooling. The main character, Marco Spirelli, hails from an urban background and struggles, at times, to overcome the cultural divides that separate him from his students.
Some of its messages are explicit, others tacit. The name of the school, for example, is De Amicis primary school - an allusion to Italian intellectual Edmondo De Amicis. His most famous work, a novel entitled Heart, tells the story of a well-to-do student who attends primary school with peers from a "lower" social class.
The film may make you laugh, it may make you cry... but it will definitely make you think.
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