Education
Greece welcomes refugee children to schools
The Greek Ministry of Education has secured classrooms and teaching staff on time and succeeded in welcoming asylum seekers under 15 years of age while preparing and integrating minors aged 15-18 in vocational education programs for the current school year. As a result… »
Lina Montoya on Face 2 Face
On this show we discussed with Lina Montoya, concerning her work with Ele Eme Project. Lina speaks about socially engaged art by working with youth, from difficult and diverse communities, transforming landscape and public space beautification. Her motto is dreams come true, of course, in creative sense. More at… »
Children’s literature: new book series on human rights
Educating children to respect the Other and understand human rights through targeted readings. This is the aim of the new book series, lisolachecé, that was announced a few days ago by Multimage – a humanist nonprofit publishing association based in Florence – on its profile Facebook and… »
Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man of math – James Earle
“What’s so special about Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man? With arms outstretched, the man fills the irreconcilable spaces of a circle and a square — symbolizing the Renaissance-era belief in the mutable nature of humankind. James Earle explains the geometric, religious and philosophical significance of this deceptively simple drawing.” Lesson… »
Labour Party’s proposals for education
https://www.facebook.com/JeremyCorbynMP/ Education is a collective good that benefits all of us. But not everyone in our country has equal access to education. When Labour left office 71% of university students had gone to state school – last year that number had fallen to 62%. Young people from less well-off… »
Thursday’s Date with Calls for a Fairer Chile
Viewpoint by Pía Figueroa* SANTIAGO (IDN) – Every year, as they have been doing since 2011, students in Chile take to the streets each Thursday, demanding a free and good quality education system. They are increasingly being joined by their parents – tired of… »
Not bad but lets make it better – Bangladesh’s Youth Policy 2016
Youth, a critical juncture of a human life, where the transition from childhood to adulthood hopefully takes place. This means going beyond mere physical transformation to entail biological, psychological, socio-cultural and political adaptations. Yet, age is the only parameter to define youth, and there is no universal definition of ‘youth’. »
A nonviolent strategy to end war
There is a long history of anti-war and peace activism. Much of this activism has focused on ending a particular war. Some of this activism has been directed at ending a particular aspect of war, such as the use of a type of weapon. Some of it has aimed to… »
Dancing with teargas
By Dominik Schlett Chilean student protests against their own educational system seem to last forever. Almost exactly five years after the most intense demonstrations since the end of Pinochet-Dictatorship, violence is capturing the streets of Santiago de Chile again. A day report. The sun lights bright at the 4th of… »
The Psychology of Ideology and Religion
Two of the drivers of world affairs that manifest in the daily decisions that affect our lives are ideology and religion. Ideology is the term widely used to describe the underlying set of values, myths, ideas, attitudes, beliefs and doctrine that shape the behavioral approach to political, economic, social,… »
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Milagro Sala
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
