The Global Search for Education: Forward Thinking
Nov09

The Global Search for Education: Forward Thinking

 “Albertans felt students needed to be three things: engaged thinkers, ethical citizens, and they needed to have an entrepreneurial spirit.” — Jeff Johnson  Education, Innovation, Infrastructure — whichever way you line up the words, they all lead back to education.  Because once a nation has goals for where it wants to be in 5 or 10 or 20 years, that nation is going to need to have a competent,...

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The Global Search for Education: In Search of Special Education
Aug28

The Global Search for Education: In Search of Special Education

 “Without an arts base, many of our students would not be able to access learning.” — Robert Newall, Principal, Port Phillip Specialist School  There are over 400 special schools in Australia, educating around 20 percent of the 150,000 students with special educational needs or a disability who are enrolled in schools nationally. The other 80 percent are enrolled in mainstream schools. A new book published by...

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The Global Search for Education: Art in Education
Jul24

The Global Search for Education: Art in Education

 “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...

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