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I Am a Tool for Change
June 28, 2013
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
-Jimmy Dean
-Jimmy Dean
At Wheelock College's Global Challenges and Opportunities conference, they played a video, "I Am a Tool for Change" by a young participant in Boxgirls of Kenya. This is a community-building organization in Kenya created "to empower young girls and women through boxing initiatives to promote leadership, awareness, and social change."
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Hearing Everyone's Voice: Educating Young Children for Peace and Democratic CommunityChildren recognize conflict, injustice, and bias; but they need to be taught how to sort out their concerns and take action to bring about fairness for all. In Hearing Everyone's Voice, teachers and parents and children share stories of their struggles to build a democratic community by learning the many ways there are to hear each other given differences in age, ethnicity, gender, culture, and economic background. The perfect guidebook for integrating peace education, anti-bias perspective, and democratic practice into your curriculum.
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Connecting: Friendship in the Lives of Young Children and Their TeachersConnecting looks at friendship as it develops in the context of early childhood programs, where people come together in unlimited combinations of age, experience, sex, culture, and background. This thought-provoking collection of articles offers practical tools and ideas for facilitating relationships among children and adults with contributions by experts including Ashely Montagu, Judith Leipzig, Kay Albrecht, Lella Gandini, Margie Carter, Diane Levin, and a host of others.
The Goodness of Rain
To nurture ecological identity in young children, we invite them into relationship with the world beyond walls and with the creatures that live there. We invite them into ethical thinking anchored by the compassion that comes from caring and engaged relationships. We invite them to come home to the Earth, and to live honorably in that home.
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Displaying 1 CommentShishu Vikash Kendra
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
A human being was born in society , brought up in the society , activate in society
So a human being should have relation with society .
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