A Critical Interview with Henry Giroux

Henry Giroux JMBT: You´re considered as the father of a critical pedagogy. What is critical pedagogy for you? HG: Actually, I am not the father of critical pedagogy. While I may have played a prominent role in its development, critical pedagogy emerged out of long series of educational struggles that extend from the work of Paulo […]

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De Madres de Soacha a sujetas políticas: Capacidad de agencia ante la impunidad en Colombia

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Rocío Mateo Medina Abogada especialista en Género. Comisión para la Investigación de Malos Tratos a Mujeres-Delegación Andalucía e-mail: rmateomedina@gmail.com . Resumen: La presente investigación de carácter cualitativo desde un paradigma feminista, indaga, cuestiona, reflexiona y analiza, el proceso de transformación de las subjetividades e identidades de género hacia la configuración de sujetas políticas de las […]

Raising Awareness of Global Education Amongst Young People

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Okafor Akachukwu International Development Consultant at Nonprofit Organization Management in Nigeria. e-mail:akachukwu_okafor@yahoo.com web: www.akachukwu.tumblr.com Abstract: Global education is a transformative learning process that is very essential in creating and promoting mutual understanding across racial, cultural, religious, political and geographical divides. Young people as agents of change have a lot of responsibility in fostering global […]

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The Peace Process Will Not be Tweeted

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Monica Curca email: monicabcurca@gmail.com / peaceforsale@gmail.com website: http://peaceforsale.org/ Abstract: Of late new media and digital technologies have been instrumental in bringing about social change throughout the world. This article asks if it is possible for new media and digital technologies to also bring peace? Media and communications have a long history in being used as an instrument for […]

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Carta de presentación de ACNUR. Por Francesca Fontanini.

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Los últimos años han sido marcados por una sucesión interminable de conflictos y crisis humanitarias, en medio de incertidumbres, sociales, políticas y económicas. Una de las primeras consecuencias de tal escenario es el incremento de las personas forzadas a desplazarse y buscar protección en otros países. La combinación de estos factores ha reducido el “espacio […]

La Educación como un Derecho. Por Jorge Sequeira.

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Hace más de cuarenta años, las naciones de la tierra afirmaron en la Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos que “toda persona tiene derecho a la educación”. Sin embargo, pese a los esfuerzos realizados para asegurar el derecho a una educación de calidad para todos, persisten grandes desafíos. La educación es un derecho humano fundamental, esencial para […]

South Africa is one of the most unequal societies in the world

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This is despite the fact that the achievement of equality is one of the core founding values of our Constitution. Our failure to achieve greater income equality is reflected in the fact that our Gini index has deteriorated from 66 in 1996, to 70 in 2008. Inequality has also increased within all our population groups […]

2013: International Year of Water Cooperation

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The side event, organized in the framework of the “UN-Water Day” at Rio+20, aims at raising awareness about the UN IYWC and the opportunities that this year-long event will bring along for Member States and other stakeholders. In December 2010 the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) declared the year 2013 as the United Nations International […]

Entrevista sobre o Movimento dos Sem Teto da Bahia (Brasil)

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Adriana Lima Balaguer Terapeuta ocupacional pela FBDC. Mestre em psicologia pela UFBA albalaguerl@hotmail.com . Javier Collado Ruano: Como surgiu a idéia de conhecer o MSTB e quantas Ocupações você pesquisou? Adriana Balaguer: A idéia surgiu a partir da minha pesquisa de mestrado, realizadas na UFBA, em Psicologia do Desenvolvimento. Há uma demanda, […]

Global Education Magazine: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (October 17th, 2012)

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Download the magazine here This edition is dedicated to the memory of the 15 million people who die every year of hunger, treatable diseases, and other conditions related to poverty on our planet. People who publish items on this magazine take their lives seriously. Global Education Magazine is inspired in the universal values of the Declaration of Emerging Human Rights that […]

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