As costs are rising across every facet of life, I wanted to take a moment to consider how this is affecting our students and how we can address the issue with compassion.
It’s well known how poverty affects learners at … Continue reading...
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Perspectives on student expertise
“The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher”, so writes the Japanese author Kenzaburō Ōe.
The Nobel-Prize winning writer comments on the nature and expression of what it means to be human, in social, … Continue reading...
From fuzzy to compassionate
Many moons ago, I started working on Education for Sustainable Development. At the beginning, it was seen as a ‘fuzzy’ topic, not scientific enough, and too touchy-feely-tree-huggy. Oh! How the winds have changed as sustainability is mainstream in pretty much everything we do now. Staff … Continue reading...