Around the World in 30 Days – January 2019
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report Forty-one years ago, Agnes Gund read an article about the arts being virtually eliminated from the budget of the NYC Board of Education. She had an idea. What about bringing visual artists to teach in schools where there was no art instruction? Studio in a School, the organization she founded, has done just that. The Global Search for Education welcomed Executive Director Chris Wisniewski to talk...
The Global Search for Education: The Green Leaders of Tomorrow
“The teacher’s role in this journey is to ‘model advance learning’. They are there as a mentor, a guide, a coach, and most importantly, a co-learner.” – Glenn Chickering Our environment should be important to all of us. It is after all where we live. The Green School in Bali was founded by John and Cynthia Hardy who wanted to create a school focused on environmental stability. The big picture goals...
The Global Search for Education: More Focus on Systems
“Complex systems are increasingly relevant to our world, as things become more tightly coupled.” — Roland Kupers Roland Kupers wants students to develop the kind of habits conducive to understanding their world in all its complexity. This means understanding how complex systems work and how systems thinkers think about complex problems. Kupers believes it also means developing new teaching approaches. Our world is...
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