Peace Education Theory and Practice online course!

"Educating for the 21st Century" by U.N. mandated University For Peace in Costa Rica

This looks familiar - would still love to participate next summer though..

Chicago school bans homemade lunches, the latest in national food fight

Looks like the battle we've had in Denmark concerning the food in kinder gardens.. If the alternative is not a representative for healthy and nutritious food - don't do it! We had scary examples of kindergardens wanting to save money - leaving the children with the worst food possible - much worse than the food the parents were critizised for giving them in the first place.

Education in The United States

Informative, non-critical article of the fundamental structure in the american edu-system

Challenge 8

What do you see as the biggest challenge in the world today?

Having participated in Globalization and professional change, my answer would be that the dominance of the cultures percieving their beliefsystems to be right and righteous is theoretically the biggest global challenge. Proving to be right in a western set of eyes, closes a discussion and makes it very difficult to change anything. The sense of direction in society is planned and implemented by the people in power. 

The only hope for a shift is for the will of every individual to let go of being indisputably right - it only equals possesive behaviour and self righteousness. Arrogant and utopian thinking, you might think, and at least for many decades and even centuries to come, the work ahead of us to make a shift to approach a new global consciousness, is the practical challenge. What seems to be the primary object then, is a balanced development between cultural evolution and human revolution. 

In these times of enviromental and human made disasters, it's clear to see, that we move faster on a material plane, than we evolve as responsible creatures. The material development and human evolution are not in balance. As a race we are ruining the natural balance of living for all parts of nature - from planet to particle. Speaking of human relations and cultural development,  we seem lightyears behind any humanitarian ambition of globalizing this world.

The teacher of the multicultural classroom or/and with a global mindset, should train students to ask how rather than why. In  a western culture, the academic way of investigating always starts with a why, in it's search for definitive answers. Asking why is basic knowledge, but to reflect (upon cultures), one needs to ask open questions. That may lead to a diversity of answers, but nevertheless asking why, is asking for a solution, which may not be there. There are no correct answers in the reflexisive mindsetting, just open possibilities. 

Imperialism with a human face

Haitian disaster upon natural and historic disasters: Earthquake, imperialism, slavery, dictatorship, U.S. domination, violence, resistance and failing to deliver relief - is it all a plan of death?

Elaine Aron; fMRI brainscannings of highly sensitive people

National Slide Into Pink Slip Purgatory Has Consequences

Read about the american job security for elementary school teachers.. I sincerely hope, that's not where Denmark is heading towards. Only votes can change this sad development - please use your voice for the sake of justice..!