Interview with Dr. Katherine Müller-Marin, Representative of UNESCO to VietNam

Javier Collado Ruano (JCR): Dr. Katherine Müller-Marin is a native of Costa Rica who began her career as the Curriculum Planning Director at the Distance Teaching University of Costa Rica. She went on to serve at the Costa Rican Ministry of Planning and Economic Policy in Institutional Strengthening and Reengineering. She holds a Master’s degree […]

Category: Asia, Central America, Child Health, Combat HIV/AIDS, End Poverty and Hunger, English, Environmental Sustainability, Gender Equality, global citizenship education, Global Partnership, Interviews, Maternal Health, Middle East, Millennium Development Goals, NGO, North America, Refugee and displaced, South America, Transversal Studies, Universal Education, Voluntary Association, Your experiences, Your ideas · Tags: bioliteracy, Buddha, Cooperation, Costa Rica, Culture of Peace, Curriculum Planning, Director-General of UNESCO, Dr. Katherine Müller-Marin, Education for Sustainable Development, ESD, evolution, future, global citizens, global citizenship education, Interamerican Development Bank, International Day of Peace, Irina Bokova, knowledge, life, Pan American Health Organization, peace, Peacebuilding, Representative of UNESCO to Viet Nam, Spanish Government Día Internacional de la Paz, sustainable development, the Organization of American States, the World Bank, UN, UNDP, UNESCO

Qaryah Thayyibah: An Alternative School in Salatiga, Indonesia

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Javier Collado talking with Ahmad Bahruddin in Salatiga, Indonesia. Javier Collado Ruano: Dear readers, it is a big pleasure to me to introduce you Mr. Ahmad Bahruddin, an experienced leader in Indonesia, who is working with a rich alternative educational project namely Qaryah Thayyibah Learning Community (QTLC) in the region of Salatiga, Indonesia. I have […]

Category: Asia, End Poverty and Hunger, English, Gender Equality, global citizenship education, Global Partnership, Interviews, Millennium Development Goals, NGO, Private Institution, Public Institution, Transversal Studies, Universal Education, Voluntary Association, Your experiences, Your ideas · Tags: agriculture, Ahmad Bahruddin, Arabic Countries, Asian countries, Brazil, Central Java Province, challenges, Christian organizations, Curriculum, democracy, democratic participation, European Countries, global citizenship education, horticulture, Indonesia, International Day of Peace, knowledge, life, local intellectual property, Metro TV, Mulyono Sardjono, Muslim, national curricula, organic farming, Paulo Freire, peace, Qaryah Thayyibah, Qaryah Thayyibah Learning Community, religious community, rural neighborhoods, Salatiga, uniformed curriculum, USA

Global Education as a Transformative Learning

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Prof. Dr. Alicia Cabezudo alicia.cabezudo@ipb.org Consultant on Global Education / North South Centre of the Council of Europe / Lisboa International Peace Bureau – IPB Geneva. Vice President School of Education / University of Rosario. Rosario, Argentina . There is a lot of terminology associated with the process of developing a new consciousness […]

Healing a Divided Planet: Proposed Actions on Transboundary Learning and Innovation

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Serafin D. Talisayon Professor (retired), University of the Philippines. Director for R&D, Center for Conscious Living Foundation serafin.talisayon@cclfi.org . Abstract: Violence and conflict still continue all over the globe. Much of this violence stem from ethnic, religious and other “mental fences” that people have been educated from childhood. These boundaries and loyalties divide people in the planet. […]

Category: Africa, Asia, English, Millennium Development Goals · Tags: bridging leadership, Delors Commission, education for peace, glocality, innovation, interfaith dialogue, peace, sustainable development, transboundary learning, UNESCO

Madrasa Education in Pakistan: In the Context of Government Policy

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Sanchita Bhattacharya Research Associate in “Institute for Conflict Management”, New Delhi, India. Ph.D. in “Madarsa Education in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh: A Comparative Study”. E-mail: sanchita.bhat83@gmail.com /website: http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/icm/Profiles/Sanchita.html . Abstract: The word ‘madrasa’ do generate a lot of curiosity and negative propaganda among scholars of international community. In most of the instances it is considered to be […]

Category: Africa, Arabic, End Poverty and Hunger, English, Environmental Sustainability, Europe, Gender Equality, Middle East, Millennium Development Goals, Private Institution, Public Institution, Universal Education, Your experiences, Your ideas · Tags: 9/11, Islam, Madrasa, Pakistan, Reform Education

Toward A New Tunisian Education System

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Mohamed Mediouni Independent Researcher E-mail: mohamed.mediouni@USehrbrooke.ca . Abstract: To move forward, we need a scientific advancement. This progress must be the speed of a rocket to reach the same level than other countries like Israel, Singapore, etc. In this article, we show the benefits, the objectives, and the needs of sciences. It surveys the existing of […]

Category: Africa, Arabic, Asia, Middle East, Millennium Development Goals, Public Institution, Refugee and displaced, Universal Education, Your experiences, Your ideas · Tags: culture, Israel, knowledge, measures of skills, MIT, religion, Singapore, STEM

Is Hamas Winning the Gaza War?

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James M. Dorsey Senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies as Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, co-director of the Institute of Fan Culture of the University of Würzburg and author of the blog, The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer, and a forthcoming book with the same title. E-mail: jmdorsey@questfze.com web: http://mideastsoccer.blogspot.com […]

Learning to Live Together: Experiences from Education Systems in the Asia-Pacific Region

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Aliénor Salmon Research Assistant, Education Policy and Reform Unit. UNESCO Bangkok – Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education. E-mail: a.salmon@unesco.org . Ramya Vivekanandan-Rodrigues Programme Specialist, Education Policy and Reform Unit. UNESCO Bangkok – Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education. E-mail: r.vivekanandan@unesco.org . Abstract: Peace has stood at the core of UNESCO’s mandate since its […]

Teaching Literacy in Jamaica

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Ines Boumaiza Université ParisV – Paris Descartes, Paris, France E-mail: ines.boumaiza@gmail.com . Abstract: Jamaica is a country of extremes. On the one hand, wealthy Jamaicans enjoy a modern, Western lifestyle. On the other hand, the poorest people in society, that is to say about 16% of Jamaicans, live below the poverty line. Although the abolition of […]

Breaking the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock – Two State Solution

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Raphael Cohen-Almagor School of Politics, Philosophy and International Studies. The University of Hull, United Kingdom. Chair and Professor of Politics, Founder and Director of the Middle East Study Group, University of Hull since 2008, http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/me-study-group.aspx; human rights and peace activist; in 2003-2007 he was the Director of the Center for Democratic Studies, University of Haifa. E-mail: […]