Posts Tagged ‘ education ’

Write Our Own Histories

Write Our Own Histories

January 6, 2012

The headlines coming out of Chilé this week echo throughout the world, "government shift in policy regarding learning about Pinochet era in school," from now on to be described as a "regime", and not a "dictatorship". Which is immediately met with anger and disapproval, criticized as an attempt to...

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ctrp402 Learning without Schools

ctrp402 Learning without Schools

December 6, 2011

It is often assumed that in order to be successful and realize your dreams you must go to university. Year after year people of all ages apply to institutions of higher education and go to great lengths to afford the high costs that come with such schools.  Increasingly people...

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ctrp396 Students Take on the Gov in Chile

ctrp396 Students Take on the Gov in Chile

October 24, 2011

My guest on this edition of Citizenreporter.org is Chilean-American, community organizer, world citizen Nick Farr who has been traveling around Chile observing many of the activities connected with the student protests demanding education reform in that country. For several months students throughout Chile have been holding mass rallies, protests as well...

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ctrp394 Education, Portugal, and the World

ctrp394 Education, Portugal, and the World

October 10, 2011

John Howard Wolf doesn't know how to fix the global economy, but he can teach us a thing or two about education. Its been his business and passion for most of his adult life.  Having immigrated from the US to Portugal in the late 1970's, even back then he...

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Notes on Training in Afghanistan

Notes on Training in Afghanistan

August 6, 2011

"Does it have any impact," a friend recently asked me, "giving video training to different groups in Afghanistan for only 1 week?" If by impact he meant does anything get learned that will be useful to the students now and in the future, then my answer is yes.  In the...

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