Fri.Jan 12, 2024

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How Offline-First Edtech Addresses Education Disparities Worldwide

ED Surge

Access to high-quality education is widely recognized as a pivotal tool for alleviating poverty, mitigating the spread of disease and malnutrition, fostering children's overall welfare and empowering women. Unsurprisingly, the United Nations asserts that quality education is not only a fundamental human right but also a crucial catalyst for economic growth and development.

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Sikh Silences across Generations 

Anthropology News

The aggregation of discrete ethnic communities into broad categories, subsequently considered as homogenous groups, has prevented the understanding of critical factors contributing to adverse mental health outcomes. This perpetuates the invisibility of large heterogenous ethnic subgroups in the United Kingdom, with serious consequences for developing mental health policy to adequately address these factors in specific ethnic communities.

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My School Gave Me Hope, but Our Superintendent Shut It Down

ED Surge

Last year, ss homecoming and winter holidays were upon us, recent alumni came by the school to check on the place they couldn’t wait to leave six months before. This is one of my favorite phenomena of teaching high school. Whether they are just feeling nostalgic or genuinely miss me, it’s always nice seeing their faces. In the week between Thanksgiving and winter breaks, I had two visits, one from an alum who works near the school and keeps an eye on his brother who will graduate this year, and

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Practical Pedagogies 3 - a call for session proposals

Living Geography

One of the best events I've attended and presented at has been the Practical Pedagogies events that were held in 2016 and 2018. The first was held in Toulouse and the second was in Cologne. Russel Tarr is now organising a third running of the event and the call for sessions is now open. I shall definitely be there (assuming my presentation is accepted).

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Deepening or Endangering Democracy: Demonstrations and Institutions under Representative Government

Political Science Now

Deepening or Endangering Democracy: Demonstrations and Institutions under Representative Government By Robert M. Fishman , Carlos III University Do demonstrations tend to deepen or endanger democracy? I examine this theme of major debate between scholars and among political actors, analyzing how the United States and other democracies have dealt with—and been shaped by—popular pressure on representative institutions.

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GA High Weald Branch - why not get involved?

Living Geography

From the latest issue of the GA's Newslettter. We encourage teachers in the Weald area (SE London, E Surrey, East Sussex, W/C Kent, Medway) to contact Chris Adams at the High Weald branch who is seeking new member schools and teachers to get involved in events and event planning in 2024. So if that is you and you want to get involved please contact Chris Adams at cadams@mayfieldgirls.org.

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