Successive waves of strikes on behalf of students and academics demonstrate that higher education in the United Kingdom is at breaking point. The inordinate cost of attending university, coupled with the structural dynamics that leave teaching staff exploited,...
Although Plato had devoted the fifth chapter of his Republic to this, Aristotle addressed the issue of raising and educating children as a matter of public interest in his Politics and Hegel pointed out the problematic of seeing children as objects belonging to their...
Did you know if you start daily reading at birth, and read with your child for 30 minutes a day, they will go to kindergarten with over 900 hours of literacy time? If you reduce that to 30 minutes a week, they lose over 770 hours of this critical “brain food” and go...
How would you feel if you found out that the books you read in order to achieve success and think positively were commonplace in your child’s elementary school? If you are startled, it means that you have some degree of doubt that the misinterpreted Positive Parenting...
How can we create more just and democratic schools? In Marvin Berkowitz’s Hot Topic discussion this afternoon, he didn’t hesitate to cut right to the point. “We need to make schools less like prisons,” he said. “When you think about it, it’s disconcerting how much the...
‘FROM ONE ‘N’ TO MANY – UNDERSTANDING MORE ABOUT SELF AND FAMILY AS A WAY TO WELLBEING LEONIE ABBOTT BERRY STREET CHILDHOOD INSTITUTE When it comes to positive education, how often do you practice what you learn within your own context to fully feel and understand...
