Half Nelson

In the movie Half Nelson (directed by Ryan Fleck), Ryan Gosling stars as a teacher in a tough inner-city school who teaches dialectics, and engages with students in a way I find very believable.

– When nature and society are seen through the lens of dialectics and systems thinking

And in fact, in Half Nelson, it’s the teacher who eventually finds himself mentored by one of his pupils - confirming the words of Brazilian educationist (and dialectician) Paulo Freire, that “education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.”

– When nature and society are seen through the lens of dialectics and systems thinking