By Andy Smart and Margaret Sinclair Re-posting of the blog first published on September 11, 2019 in UKFIET Conference 2019.
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Educating for the Social, the Emotional and the Sustainable
By NISSEM co-conveners Andy Smart, Margaret Sinclair, Aaron Benavot, Jean Bernard, Colette Chabbott, S. Garnett Russell and James Williams Re-posting of the World Education Blog first published by GEM Report on 6 November 2019.
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Where am i in this narrative?
Author: Andy Smart When educators meet to share their experiences about teaching difficult pasts or addressing societal divisions, fundamental questions arise about context. National, regional, classroom and individual contexts all matter. Students within a class may have different cultural identities...
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Must history textbooks be divisive?
Author: Jim Williams Growing up in the US South, I began my schooling just before the end of segregation, when black and white children were not allowed to attend school or see movies together, or even use the same public...
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Can education materials support social and emotional learning (sel) and inclusive identities?
Author: Margaret Sinclair I began as an education planner, and later worked for UNHCR. I saw enough of refugee camps to call on education decision-makers to support education for the prevention of crisis and conflict. As a planner, I saw...
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Planning for a bully-free school environment in trinidad and tobago: it’s not that simple
Author: Jean Bernard, Alysoun Johnston and Ravi Rampersad 'If there is no solution, it is not a problem.’ So goes the ancient Zen saying. But what if the problem has gone unrecognized for centuries and solutions that work are only now...
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