Episode 34 · Season IV · S4.E0 · Oct 14, 2026 · 2:33

Season 4 Trailer: Whose Room Is It?

Season 4 of The Cultural Context of Knowledge follows one question around the world: who teaches whom, in whose language, and who decided. Eight episodes, with the United States in every one of them as one case among many. The trailer opens in four classrooms at eight in the morning, on the coast of Kenya, in central India, in Barcelona, and in San Francisco in 1970. In each, the language of the lesson is not the language of the children's homes. UNESCO estimates that about forty percent of the world's people are not taught in a language they understand well. The trailer also explains why the research season promised at the end of Season 3 is now Season 5, and closes with three questions to try before Episode 1.

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In this episode
  1. 00:00Four classrooms, eight in the morning
  2. 00:50Every country has decided
  3. 01:07Why the research season moved to Season 5
  4. 01:29What Season 4 takes up
  5. 01:51Nigeria: a decision that did not hold
  6. 02:16Three questions before Episode 1
“Every country has decided, on purpose or by default, which language its teachers use and whose knowledge they teach.
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