The issue of inclusive education is a very emotive one. It is multi-faceted, and there is much debate around what inclusive education implies and entails. This is the first article in a series of articles which will explore the issues in depth. We should perhaps start by questioning what it is that ...
Since the 1960s the Day of the Black Consciousness in Brazil is celebrated on the 20th of November. At this day, in 1695, the last leader of the Quilombo dos Palmares – Zumbi, was executed by the slavish establishment. Palmares was the largest Quilombo in Brazil, composed by several small villages a ...
If you would like to help me keep my research on Capoeira and Social Inclusion tuned with the issues and problems faced by non-Brazilian practitioners within the Art-form, come and share your narrative. The spreading of Capoeira from Bahia to other Brazilian states, as well as from Brazil to many ot ...
HT to David Levinson This a an animation from The American Observer on the Geography of the Recession. Go see it: unbelievable. A student threw a very public tantrum the other day and blamed the fact that he was facing the “worse job market since the Great Depression”. This is only marginally and re ...
By 2013 we will have established an inclusive culture that embraces a diversity of people in our population and encourages their uniqueness to flourish and enhance our community.
Last night, a group of parents and community members gathered together as a follow up to last week’s talk on “Creating Socially Healthy Communities” with Kim John Payne. As we know, work is being done at school by the teachers and staff to give more focus to this topic. Specifically, a preview and r ...
Electronic consultation with citizens must remain just one part of public engagement techniques used by local authorities, to combat digital exclusion, a leading analyst said this month. Philip Virgo, secretary-general of information society alliance EURIM ( http://www.eurim.org.uk/ ), told E-Govern ...
Teasing crosses the line when… Close friendships cross the line and become cliques when… How would you and your family finish these sentences? One family’s answers might look different from another family’s answers. Last night’s talk by Kim John Payne raised a lot of questions, comments and conversa ...
Because it is failing to match high-level policy with funding where it’s needed. Michael Cross at the Guardian has exposed the reality of watching good projects go into liquidation through the governments’ inability to fund practice that delivers on its policies and aspirations. The Lighthouse Proje ...
Before Don told our political party of choice to go take a long walk off a short pier*, I used to be That Girl at Riding Association meetings, at committee meetings, and at rallies. [You might be thinking "Why would your husband telling a political party to get lost mean you wouldn't be part of them ...
