Responding to Covid-19 in the Bahamas

Interview with Marcellus C. Taylor Marcellus C. Taylor talks to Aaron Benavot. View the full transcript here. “Here in the Bahamas we have a lot of people who tend to look at why we can’t do something. It’s like there’s no...
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Responding to COVID-19 in Lebanon

Interview with Rima Malek Rima Malek talks to Jean Bernard and James Williams. "I cannot give a face-to-face course, then take the same content and put it online. This is not enough!" View the full transcript here. Rima Malek is an Educational...
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Responding to Covid-19 in Uganda

Baale Remegious talks to Andy Smart and Margaret Sinclair. "We need to have all these social issues in our education system. Let us not just go back to that academic thing only." This is the first of a series of blogposts based...
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Responding to COVID-19 in Kenya

Interview with Ngángá Kibandi and Lucy Maina Lucy Maina and Ngángá Kibandi talk to Andy Smart and Margaret Sinclair. "The challenge is to think around how to change the way questions are phrased...so that questions require children to engage with...
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A selective strategy to advance social and emotional skills through textbooks

by Colette Chabbott Read the third of Brookings' 3-part blog series on NISSEM's Global Briefs here.
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Re-thinking the traditional textbook for better academic and pro-social outcomes

by Andy Smart and Esther Care Second of Brookings' 3-part blog series on NISSEM's Global Briefs.
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Curriculum provides a learning pathway, but what do we see in the classroom?

By Margaret Sinclair and Esther Care First of Brookings' 3-part blog series on NISSEM's Global Briefs.  
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London launch of the NISSEM Global Briefs at UKFIET

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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