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Lessons From the Real World
Lessons From the Real World (57 min) highlights several schools in the Portland, Oregon, area that have created transformative learning environments that teach students the “basics” by exploring issues...
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Mother Jones
A news organization offering “investigative, political, and social justice reporting.”
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New Internationalist
New Internationalist “reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.”
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SGI Quarterly
SGI Quarterly is a “Buddhist forum for peace, culture and education” that offers a variety of views and voices.
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Rethinking Elementary Education
Nurturing thoughtful, engaged citizens begins when children are young. Elementary school teachers have a wonderful opportunity to help their students nurture their curiosity and passions, explore...
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Scrubbing Our Assumptions About Our Students
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.” ~ Alan Alda, actor We all make a lot of assumptions. Generally speaking, our...
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Learning Through “Edutainment”
Image courtesy Mickey Thurman via Creative Commons. Often, when we think of education, we think only of classrooms, where “formal” learning takes place. But there are many ways to educate and engage...
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Are You Turning People Off with the Images You Use?
As humane educators and concerned citizens, we want to make sure that we’re being as effective as possible, which is why it’s important that we pay attention to any research that can help us improve...
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Teaching About Hurricane Sandy & Other Disasters
Image courtesy of CasualCapture via Creative Commons. Disasters tend to get a lot of coverage before, during, and immediately after the event, but rarely does any significant mainstream media...
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6 Activities for Teaching About Advertising
In her newest TEDx talk, Educating for Freedom, IHE President Zoe Weil highlights how our culture inundates us with marketing and advertising every day, telling us we won’t be happy or successful or...
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Positive, Practical Action
Last September saw hundreds of thousands of people around the world take action to address climate change via the People’s Climate March, including more than 300,000 people marching in New York City....
View ArticleWhat Humane Education Looks like: Finding the Connections and Root Causes of...
We live in a world in which we too often dichotomize issues into a simple black/white, either/or, us/them framework. We find it in the news, in our education curricula, in our government and business...
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Lessons From the Real World (57 min) highlights several schools in the Portland, Oregon, area that have created transformative learning environments that teach students the “basics” by exploring issues...
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Find articles, books, lesson plans, videos, and other resources exploring issues of war and peace building to help you teach and/or learn more about these global ethical issues. The post War and Peace...
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Resources (books, videos, lesson plans, articles, and more) to help teach and/or learn about issues related to waste, trash, garbage, and recycling. The post Waste and Recycling Issues appeared first...
View ArticleResources for Helping Young People Cope With Traumatic Events
by Marsha Rakestraw Note: Last updated 12/4/17 In the past couple months there have been overwhelming natural disasters in Puerto Rico, Florida, Texas, Mexico, India, Nepal, and elsewhere. There have...
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