Η Σφαιρική Αναζήτηση για Εκπαίδευση: Ποια είναι η καλή?
“How do we preserve some sense of Truth, Beauty and Goodness at a time we have so much change going on?” — Howard Gardner. Photo by Megan Morr, Duke Photography. Truth, Ομορφιά, Καλοσύνη — what do they mean to young and old in a 21st century world experiencing dramatic technological and philosophical change? A man who understands the difficulty in educating for the virtues in a challenging new age is...
Η Σφαιρική Αναζήτηση για Εκπαίδευση: Τέχνη στην Εκπαίδευση
“Ruskin’s concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone.” — Professor Robert Hewison John Ruskin was probably the greatest British critic of art, culture and society of the nineteenth century, in addition to being an educator. He believed that art and the development of imagination were profoundly important to an individual’s education. Ruskin...
Η Σφαιρική Αναζήτηση για Εκπαίδευση: A Student’s View
Scholarship ceremony at Peking University During the course of a visit to Yale University, I had the pleasure of meeting up with Yale student Lun Pei Ng. Lun Pei is a 1st year graduate student at Yale School of Public Health, concentrating in Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. She graduated from Peking University Health Science Center as a medical student in 2011. Her interests lie in infectious disease control as well as...
Η Σφαιρική Αναζήτηση για Εκπαίδευση: A Life of Learning
“The evidence is strong from the UK that those members of society who have had a positive experience of post-compulsory education live healthier, happier and more democratically tolerant lives.”– Sir David Watson Professor Sir David Watson (MA University of Cambridge, PhD University of Pennsylvania) is Professor of Higher Education and Principal of Green Templeton College, Πανεπιστήμιο της Οξφόρδης, Αγγλία. Sir...
Η Σφαιρική Αναζήτηση για Εκπαίδευση: Διεθνής Εκπαίδευση
“Every child around the world should have the opportunity to have a high quality global education.” – Jeffrey Beard The International Baccalaureate (the IB) continues to play an important role in changing the lives of students worldwide. Apart from PISA, it is the only test that measures the performance of students against their global peers. Ο Δρ. Tony Wagner, Innovation Education fellow at Harvard University...
Η Σφαιρική Αναζήτηση για Εκπαίδευση: Student Well Being
“Sometimes we have to remind students that a little anxiety is normal, and that learning to deal with pressure by containing it or getting used to it is a necessary skill.” — Mark Wormald It is one of the world’s leading academic centers and oldest universities; a self-governed community of scholars with a reputation for outstanding academic achievement. Like all of the world’s greatest...
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