Global Inclusion

Following up on our mention of the excellent work by Natasha Aruliah (see The Power of the Circle in our August 2019 Newsletter) comes this reminder to check our fundamental assumptions from science and environment educators Carolina Castano Rodriguez and Laura Barraza (in *13 Questions: Reframing Education’s Conversation: Science Series. Edited By Lynn A. Bryan…

Some selected facts from The Economist Special Report: Migration (November 16, 2019) If everyone who wanted to migrate were able to do so, global GDP would double according to the Centre for Global Development Migrants are far less numerous than news footage suggests – the UN estimates about 3.5% of global population are migrants, barely…

It can be useful – even comforting – to remember that current issues, and their solutions, have been with us for some time. As a reminder that globalisation — and resistance to it – is more than a recent phenomenon, see the entertaining summary of Hermann Melville’s views at https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2019/07/18/born-200-years-ago-herman-melville-was-globalisations-first-great-bard Plenty of 20th and 21st century research and experience tells…

One of the most challenging areas of diversity to work with is that of race, and as always, when working globally, context matters. Sociologists remind us that race is a social construction. In other words, while physical differences exist (“if you are visually abled, you can tell that people are different based on their skin…