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An exploration of the standards of beauty imposed on African-American girls today.
I have a love of traveling, which affords me the opportunity to meet new people and explore other cultures. My goal is to develop more projects that will help my community and give a much needed voice to issues that pertain to people of color. I am currently attending Urban Academy, a NYC public high school, and I live with my mother in Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Brandon K12LTSP Laptop Carts
A while back I built a rolling laptop cart for old laptops we had at the school that were pretty useless trying to run Windows, but work wonderfully as thin clients. With 12 laptop stations adding to the existing 5-9 thin clients in each classroom, we can provide a class with an instant 1:1 ratio for activities like creative writing, research, etc.
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Puppet theatre, Peter Schumann, says is "anarchic and untameable by nature." Its materials are cheap - paper, rags, and wood scraps. Its history is subversive. Its stage is the street. Schumann has created a prophetic, political and religious theatre for our time.
David Cayley relates the history of the Bread and Puppet Theatre and the ideas on which it is based.
Changing the Male University Culture in Informatics: the Project Informatica Feminale
Karin Vosseberg and Veronika Oechtering
Three aspects are seen as focal points: new definitions of informatics curricula from women’s viewpoints, creation of test-fields for new educational concepts mainly in the context of summer courses, and further education of female university staff in informatics.
Cities around the World
With "Cities around the world" children will give their city the opportunity to have
it say: they find out more about their city, they discover its desires and dreams and express what people could do so that it keeps living in harmony with the Earth.
DECET. Diversity in Early Childhood Education and Training
DECET (Diversity in Early Childhood Education and Training) brings together a network of European organizations and projects with common goals about valuing diversity in early childhood education and training.
Education in action
Mrs Gina Southey
The children were involved in using many high order skills, of presentation, language skills. They were required to speak to a variety of audiences and were asked to listen attentively and comment on speakers from different ages and professions.
EuroMed Youth Unit for Ocuppited Palestinan Territory
Guidelines for grant applicants responding for the call for proposals for 2007
The Euro-Med Youth Programme is a regional programme that
promotes the mobility of young people and the understanding between peoples through three
types of actions: Youth Exchanges, Voluntary Services and Support Measures.
Freinet and citizenship education
Hugh Starkey. The Open University
This paper concentrates specifically on the way the concept of co-operation has developed, how it is translated into the practical workings of classrooms and how it supports citizenship education.
G-Nation works with young people throughout the UK to show them how they can change the world by giving
It‘s a website, it‘s something you can do in school, but most importantly it‘s what you do outside of school that matters and if you want to make some changes out there in the big wide world, then G-Nation can help you make a start and give you some pretty useful directions too...
Girls Voices - Thumbs-up for SMT studies
FAWE News Vol. 11
The perception that girls in sub-Saharan Africa cannot cope with science, mathematics and technology subjects persist. This perception is sustained by examination results that continue to show boys in secondary schools performing better than girls in SMT
subjects. It is also strengthened by the persisting low numbers of
women in the faculties of science, engineering and medicine in nearly
all universities in sub-Saharan Africa.
Living Values Education Program
Implemented in 74 countries at over 7,000 sites, educators implementing LVEP report positive changes in teacher-student relationships and in student-student relationships both inside and outside the classroom. Educators note an increase in respect, caring, cooperation, motivation, and the ability to solve peer conflicts on the part of the students. Aggressive behaviors decline as positive social skills and respect increase. LVEP helps educators create safe, caring values-based atmospheres for quality learning.
Many schools are hopeless at teaching citizenship, according to Ofsted. What are they doing wrong?
By Morag Preston
Today’s citizenship lesson is on "victims of crime". Using press clippings, video footage and questionnaires, the teacher, Marcus Bhargava, aims to give the topic relevance to students’ lives. Citizenship classes are a favourite at Pimlico school in Westminster, London. Few schools are as successful when it comes to teaching this relatively new subject.
Newbury Park Primary School. London
‘Language of the month’ celebrates the different backgrounds of the school’s pupils, encourages understanding of other cultures and gives the children an opportunity to communicate in a different language each month. The scheme introduces everyone at the school to some of the 40 languages spoken in the school community with
children as young as 4 able to express themselves in different languages.
QUEST- Quality Education for Social Transformation
QUEST’s overall goal is to improve the performance of children in primary schools in Africa, paying specific attention to barriers facing girls. Its focus is on the learning, practice, and mastery of literacy at primary school by poor children in rural areas.
Re-Mission video game and online community of young people with cancer
Re-Mission is a challenging, 3D "shooter" with 20 levels that takes the player on a journey through the bodies of young patients with different kinds of cancer. Players control a nanobot named Roxxi who destroys cancer cells, battles bacterial infections, and manages realistic, life- threatening side effects associated with the disease.
Schoolmates, bullying and homophobia in school projet
The Schoolmates project is a trans-national project promoted by Arcigay (the Italian lesbian and gay association) in partnership with COLEGA Madrid, KPH Warsaw and the City of Vienna. The project is co-financed by the European Commission in the framework of the Daphne II programme.
SeaStem
Seastem, is a system offering learning, information and cooperation services for teachers and students, pertaining to marine environmental education.
Story-Tellers Grandmothers Program. Chaco (Argentina)
The activity consists of summoning senior citizens who have vocation and desires to read stories for children. These people, trained by specialized personnel, get together with children in many schools of the metropolitan area of Resistencia.
The Mwelu Foundation
Community Projects in the Mathare Valley Slum of Nairobi
Out primary activities centre around photography and journalism but also include other creative arts such as film production, poetry and music. We carry out community work in the form of environmental clean-ups and visits to other vulnerable community groups.
The value of leisure education and training in rural areas: A South African Perspective
CP HENRY & PFV OBERHOLSTER
it is evident that leisure education contribute to the improvement of quality of life of communities. It is however important to ensure the sustianability of these programmes. Sustainability needs to evolve through effective planning with clear guidelines on the breadth and depth of development. This goal can be achieved by educating and training people involved and by the actions of governments (Eccles and Costa, 1996).
Values for Australian Schooling Kit
Professional learning resources for primary and secondary schools have been developed for distribution to all Australian schools. The Values for Australian Schooling Kit is an integrated package of resources for every school in Australia.
Waiting for Superman. Documentary.
When disaster strikes in America, heroes rush in. We’ve seen it time and again: when all seems lost, real-life supermen (and women) step up to save the day. But wat if, right now, there is a hidden catastrophe spreading quietly, insidiously through our nation’s cities, towns and communities - and yet we have the power to stop it? What if our children and their futures - were in peril? Who will become a hero now?
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