Recently, the second season of the global education visit documentary "Childhood in a Foreign Country" produced by Youku has come to an end. Zhou Yijun, the initiator and chief director of the program, brought the audience into a journey of educational and cultural exploration across the five countries through delicate lens language and quiet content expression. Since its launch, the series has aroused the public's deep thinking about education and growth with its unique perspective and insight, and has been widely acclaimed, topping the Weibo variety show hit list documentary list, and topics such as "Singapore children start college entrance examinations from primary school" occupy social media hot spots.
From Singapore's competitiveness to Germany's inclusiveness, from France's humanity to New Zealand's nature classroom, to Thailand's multiculturalism. The second season of "Childhood in a Foreign Country" presents the audience with a diverse picture of education in the five countries, recording the warm interaction between educators and the educated, which is not only an observation of the current situation of global education, but also a direct question.
The second season of "Childhood in a Foreign Country" is full of emotion and power. In the program, whether it is Germany's open sex education or Singapore's diversified development path, they all point to a core message - each education model is a profound exploration of children's growth paths, rather than a simple comparison of advantages and disadvantages. The essence of education is acceptance and growth, not pure results-oriented.
The film encourages society to re-examine what "good education" is, advocating giving children the freedom to choose, allowing them to discover themselves through exploration and achieve a colorful childhood.
This season's "Childhood in a Foreign Country" has adopted a variety of innovative cross-border communication forms such as offline movie viewing parties, podcast linkages, Weibo live broadcasts, and image collections, trying to break the boundaries of traditional documentaries, making educational issues deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and resonating with netizens. Topics such as "Singapore's children start college entrance exams from primary school", "How hard do Singapore parents fight to buy a school district house", "France's freedom is from the inside out" and other topics occupy social media hot spots.
Han Yun, general manager of Youku Documentary, said that the second season of "Childhood in a Foreign Country" has been upgraded in terms of content, which is also of great significance to the general public. When we see other people's stories, it may also be a self-healing.
In recent years, Youku has continued to launch high-quality documentaries in many fields such as nature, education, food, and history. "Going to the Mountains and Seas Together" records the practice of rural development in Zhejiang Province in multiple dimensions; "Protector" truly presents the whole process of rescue and protection of Chinese pangolins; "Jianghu Restaurant 5" seeks to taste the hard dishes of Jianghu with different characteristics. It not only enriches the spiritual and cultural life of the public, but also plays an important role in promoting cultural inheritance, science popularization, environmental protection and international cultural exchanges.
It is reported that Youku will also launch high-quality content such as "One City, One Blind 3" in the future, integrating the hot topics of the times and social topics into the expression of documentary images, and promoting documentaries from the niche to the public.