Nomination call for UNESCO-Hamdan Prize 2015-2016
The fourth edition of the UNESCO-Hamdan bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Prize for Outstanding Practice and Performance in Enhancing the Effectiveness of Teachers has opened the call for nominations. The prize is awarded every two years and it recognizes initiatives that contribute to improving educational practices around the world, with priority given to developing countries and to marginalized and disadvantaged […]
Sustainable Development Goals for 2030: The Land Beyond Borders for our Planetary Youth
Interconnecting dreams in the land beyond borders. Photo in Vitsa, Greece. Spanish version Around the world, young people of both sexes look to the future, and question current socio-economic models that are based on the irrational exploitation of natural resources. While it is true that capitalist systems have brought enormous material benefits, their functionalist view subordinates […]
Los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible de 2030: una tierra más allá de las fronteras para nuestra juventud planetaria
Interconectando sueños en la tierra del más allá de las fronteras. Foto en Vitsa, Grecia. Versión inglés En todo el mundo, los jóvenes de ambos sexos miramos hacia el futuro y nos cuestionamos los modelos socio-económicos actuales que se basan en la explotación irracional de recursos naturales. Si bien es cierto que el sistema capitalista ha […]
International Youth Day: Interview with Kailash Satyarthi, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
2014 Peace Nobel Award Kailash Satyarthi during his speech in the World Education Forum 2015 . Javier Collado Ruano: Dear Kailash Satyarthi, my name is Javier Collado-Ruano. I am working in Brazil as a professor in the University, and we have followed an approach with the nattier, indigenous people, and with poor people living in the […]
JUSTICIA EN AYOTZINAPA, MÉXICO
A los jóvenes normalistas de Ayotzinapa, a los sobrevivientes, a los desaparecidos, a los masacrados… A sus familias y comunidades que hoy sufren incertidumbre e impotencia. Al pueblo hermano de México. A todos los afectados por la violencia y la violación de los derechos humanos. A todas las personas de todas las naciones que creen […]
Youth, Stand up for Economic Citizenship!
Eva Lestant Child and Youth Finance International e.lestant@outlook.com . Jared Penner Child and Youth Finance International Jared@childfinance.org / web: www.childfinance.org . Abstract: The 2008 economic crisis of 2008 brought awareness to stakeholders around the world that the lack of financial literacy, combined with financial deregulation, has brought many households to bankruptcy and poverty. Over the […]
THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY TO AVOID DEPLETION OF NATURAL RESOURCES OF PLANET EARTH
Fernando Alcoforado Member of the Bahia Academy of Education (Brazil). Engineer and Doctor of Territorial Planning and Regional Development from the University of Barcelona (Spain). e-mail: falcoforado@uol.com.br – Abstract: The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the need for the adoption of Circular Economy in order to avoid the depletion of natural resources of planet Earth […]
The Beauty of Imperfection within Quantitative Economic Modeling
Saskia Troy (MSc.) is a business economist specialized in Global Business and Stakeholder Management. In the past Saskia Troy has been Global Chapter Coordinator, Coordinator Europe and Chapter Leader Netherlands of Children of the Earth which is an NGO of the United Nations, and she is a member of the Working Group Sustainable Finance (Changing Finance, […]
Advocating for Today’s Youth – How Boys & Girls Clubs of America Prepare Young People for Great Futures
Today’s youth face numerous challenges ranging from poverty to obesity to academic struggles. 11 million kids are left unsupervised after school each day and need a safe haven with caring mentors and program that can change their opportunity equation. Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) tackles these issues every day, all year round. As […]
Like Lambs to the Slaughter: The Erosion of the Cultured Citizen
Sean M. Douglas is an author, businessman and teacher whose latest book From Storm Clouds Come Angels has been praised as a work of true and genuine insight. Mr. Douglas continues to lecture and is a student of the Philosophy of Educational Theory and Policy. douglas.enterprises@live.ca . Abstract: The following article discusses the issues […]
