Internationalism
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Where do you come from? Where to next?
Being an international school teacher is an extreme privilege; a series of opportunities that present a unique kind of dilemma, seemingly earlier each year. It becomes more complex with school-age children of our own, and is further complicated by having… Continue reading
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How NOT to be ignorant about the world.
Hans Rosling, TED.com “Fame is easy to acquire. Impact is much more difficult.” Update, 2018: As a Rosling fanboy, using their work on i-Biology since about 2008, I was saddened to hear of his death in 2017. However, his recent… Continue reading
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A Web Chart of the International Dimension of a School [MA Assignment]
5,000 words on “How international is your school?” Proposing a web-chart for visualising and measuring the international dimension. Continue reading
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Pocahontas & International-Mindedness
“You think the only people who are people, are people who look and think like you.” Continue reading
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How “international” is your school?
An attempt to use a radar chart to visualise the elements of the international dimension in schools. Continue reading
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What is an international education?
I’m taking this week to be locked away at the University of Bath, working on my current unit ‘Education in an International Context‘ as part of the MA in International Education. I’ll probably write a couple of blog posts as… Continue reading
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As long as there are children there will be schools
I’m just in from the final Headmaster’s Symposium of the academic year. These have been a series of panel discussions with the community, and the focus of this month’s was “The Future of CA.” DJ, the Headmaster, invited me to… Continue reading
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IB Education: Internationalism or Globalism?
I found this presentation really interesting in my reading for the “Culture and Curriculum” section of the Curriculum Studies unit. Dr. James Cambridge discusses how internationalism and globalism serve as contexts for international education. Click to view (SlideServe doesn’t embed… Continue reading
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