Turning Policy into Action: One Adolescent’s On-the-Ground Activism
Julia Carter represents a new generation of young global activists. She eschewed the traditional high school-to-college path, choosing to devote two and a half years towards international travel and community service before college. She completed a Semester of Service with our partner organization Cause & Affect Foundation, served as a Fellow for Global Citizen Year in […]
Mulheres Rurais: Cooperação Internacional para Estudos Multidisciplinares de Gênero, Educação, Cidadania e Responsabilidade Social da Universidade
José Cláudio Rochai Professor Titular UNEB e Pesquisador em Direitos Humanos. Professor permanente do Doutorado Multi-Institucional e Multidisciplinar em Difusão do Conhecimento. Coordenador do OBEDHCV E-mail: jrocha@uneb.br . Denise A. B.F. Rochaii Professora Pesquisadora UNEB/UAB. Pesquisadora do OBEDHCV E-mail: dfrocha@uneb.br . Resumo: O presente artigo relata a experiência e parceria do Observatório da Educação em Direitos Humanos, […]
The Story of the Green Lane Environmental Diary: Uniting Children and Cultures through Environmental Education
Katy Orell Green Cross International e-mail: communication@gci.ch web: www.gcint.org . Abstract: The Green Lane Environmental Diary program, founded in 1999 by Green Cross, is a school-based educational initiative promoting sustainable development and inspiring students to become agents of transformative change in their own communities. The initiative underscores a central aim of the Earth Charter Declaration to “provide […]
The Divine Nature of Women Naturally – A Challenge of 21st Century
Rashmi Chandran Founder & Chairperson, Natural Health and Environmental Research, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India E-mail: rashmichandran@gmail.com / https://www.facebook.com/NHEROrg . Abstract: Woman is the embodiment of God’s creative power, Shakti. Woman embodies the feminine aspect of God, through which he created the creation. God placed within women divine qualities of strength, virtue, love, and the willingness to sacrifice to raise […]
And the Walls Come Folding Down: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Building Awareness, Balance, and Connection in Ourselves, Our Schools, in Our Communities, and in Our World
Karen Melaas Curriculum/Teacher Leadership Development in Oxford, Michigan, USA kwmelaas@comcast.net / http://kwmelaas.wix.com/plant-karma . Abstract: The twenty-first century offers educators an extraordinary opportunity to employ constructivist teaching and learning. The current era allows us, perhaps more than ever before, to honor the core individuality of every learner. There is one idea within constructivism that some have come to […]
Education and Suicide
Anna Barchetti Durisch Mentor, public speaker and education specialist e-mail: anna@helioslife.org web: helioslife.org . Abstract: Whether we fail in school or life exams, suicide is not an answer. What is the meaning of education?How to heal the pain within us, which one day might result in divisions and conflicts at large? Keywords: Education, suicide, […]
Mujeres: Narrar lo público-privado y la política del entre-lugar y el entre-tiempo
María Antonia Miranda González Graduación (2004) y Mestrado en (2009) Sociología por la Universidad de la Habana. Formada en el Centro de Formación Literaria Onelio Jorge Cardoso. (Cuba 2004). Fue profesora del Departamento de Sociologia de la Universidade de la Habana 2004-2007. Investigadora del Instituto Cubano de Investigaciones Culturales- ICIC. Colaboradora del Centro Félix Varela […]
Vidas Sumisas: la Mujer Indígena
Lorena Yañez Ruano Mestrando en Estudios Latinoamericanos: Cultura y Gestión, por la Universidad de Granada loyarua@gmail.com . Resumen: Nuestro estudio va a consistir en una mirada a las mujeres indígenas en América Latina. Éstas se encuentran en una situación de pobreza y subordinación, viven en un contexto de doble rechazo por el hecho de ser […]
Celebrating Woman!
Rita Eluwade Author of the book “Trafficked Women- a Problem of Vulnerability without Rehabilitation” E-mail: rita.wealthygeneration@gmail.com . In celebrating Women’s day, there is a need to place more emphasis on the female gender. The female sex is one of the two sexes made from the time of creation. The exemption of the female gender in most […]
Increasing Women and Community Knowledge About Gender Issues and their Capabilities to End VAW in Sudan
Huwayda Mohamed Ibrahim Projects designer and developer at Consultancy office at Sudan huwayda1@hotmail.com . Women are still suffering from marginalization, different types of violence, exclusion and social injustice especially, in the rural areas and from the sense of superiority they are being treated with, in the conservative societies. The vast majority remain suffering under […]
