Archive for DavidPenberg SmartBlogs
The global village and the flattened world are no longer the arcane ideas or metaphors of academics and scholars. Nor is global warming an invention of ideologists with a political agenda. They are as real as the security guards in our schools and the poverty that stalks too many children in the world. As our climate changes and borders and boundaries of all kinds blur, I offer the following questions to help educators ground the coming year with a renewed sense of resolve and hopefulness.[…] Continue Reading »
‘Tis the season, for remembrance, humility and gratefulness. But the alarming images that we have all seen of people’s lives in disarray, possessions piled in heaps of debris and sand in front of what is left of their homes, belies something else. In the wake of Sandy, and the devastation it wrought on the metropolitan area, educators have a timely and compelling opportunity.[…] Continue Reading »
I wonder what John Dewey might feel on entering a New York City high school as the contents of his bag run through a metal detector. Sometimes it is very difficult to imagine democratic, globally-minded students in schools populated with security guards and scanners. I think about the social and emotional well being of children and what public schools mean for a democracy.[…] Continue Reading »
Language learning and cultural diversity are two dimensions of what we bring to school; but two, I am afraid to say, of the most underdeveloped and mediocre. But why? Shouldn’t there be better ways to support second language learners, and if so, how might we deploy the capitol of children’s multilingualism in the teaching and learning process?[…] Continue Reading »
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