Archive for August, 2014
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Students in India have developed a “SmartCane” for the blind
The marriage of two technologies can achieve awesome things. Students at IIT Delhi are certainly making an impression with a new invention, the SmartCane, which enhances one of the world’s oldest instruments—the walking stick—by adding SONAR, a technique used to navigate and communicate underwater, to help visually impaired people to walk independently.
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Gun-toting kids camp causes alarm in Serbia
Religious hardliners in Serbia are being accused of abuse of minors – and even of breaking the law – in connection with a controversial summer camp.
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A Weibo spat hints at the battle brewing over journalism’s future in China
While censorship in China and news practitioners’ gripping anecdotes of defiance routinely make international headlines, little is known about the people who are behind the many institutions across the country that train future journalists.
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Kyrgyzstan: Yurt preschools reach nomadic children
At first glance, it looks like another iconic felt yurt in a remote pasture high in Kyrgyzstan’s mountains. But step through the door and a visitor can quickly see it is no ordinary nomadic dwelling.
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New series: liberalism in neoliberal times – dimensions, contradictions, limits
Today we launch a new series, curated by Goldsmiths in partnership with OurKingdom, on liberalism in neoliberal times. Liberalism was undoubtedly conceived as an emancipatory project, one which duly recognized the value and dignity of the individual.
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New OECD report leads to questions about educational innovation
While the OECD has released a number of reports this year, their most recent report addresses the measurement of educational innovation at the classroom and school levels.
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As another school and shelter in Gaza is bombed, a UN spokesman breaks down in tears in a video interview
Chris Gunness, a United Nations Relief and Works Agency spokesperson broke down in tears while wrapping a TV interview with Al Jazeera Arabic about a lethal attack on a UN school that was sheltering 3,300 Palestinians in Gaza.
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“Never again”: for an education toward critical self-reflection
The education system, recovering from economic crisis, increasingly obsesses itself with downsizing and rationalising, with “student learning outcomes” determined by test scores and the job market. Now, more than ever, we need to return to Adorno.
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