Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Dépliant de présentation. « Alors que la nouvelle édition de La Fête des Imprimeurs se prépare à Strasbourg, l’association Espace Européen Gutenberg entend donner à cette manifestation une résonance toute particulière en l’inscrivant dans une programmation plus large et sur l’année entière. Plus...
Holy Cross looks to move on from Crusader controversy
When the Holy Cross Board of Trustees ruled this month to keep the Crusader moniker, they aimed, in part, to move the word away from its dark and sordid history. More...
NYC college creates state's first slavery history database
The New York Slavery Index , created by CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, provides records dating from 1525 through the Civil War. WNBC-TV reports the database includes records, documents, narratives and other sources that identify individual enslaved people and their owners. More...
Educational Technology Magazine archive (1966-2017)
Educational Technology Magazine archive (1966-2017)
George Veletsianos, 2018/02/05
Nice. George Veletsianos writes " Educational Technology was a print-only publication. However, Howard Lipsitz, Larry’s brother, has collaborated with JSTOR to preserve Larry’s legacy and make all articles available online where they can be read for free. Here’s the Educational Technology magazine archives (1966-2017)." More...
Head hunters sought for emperor search in Oxford
We were delighted to see the photographs of snow-covered emperors’ heads outside the Sheldonian Theatre on the letters page (7 February), a lovely illustration of the diversity of faces in the centre of Oxford. These are some of the third generation of heads, carved in 1972. More...
La réforme de l’accès à l’université… ou la revanche d’Alain Devaquet
Un « outil Freinet » transversal venu du Japon : la tradition du kamishibaï a du bon, même en 2018 !
De quoi s’agit-il ? Du kamishibaï (de kami, papier et shibai, théâtre), initialement utilisé dans la rue (gaito) et dont la popularité a atteint son apogée au Japon à la fin des années 1920. Plus...
How 1950s parents were forced to fight for children with cerebral palsy’s right to education
When it was introduced in Britain, the 1944 Education Act mapped out a new era for education. For the first time, local authorities became responsible for providing education according to “age, aptitude and ability”. More...
Stuck in the past: the UK needs to produce creative thinkers not exam-passing machines
The UK is experiencing a new renaissance. The first Renaissance looked back to the Classical world of ancient Rome and Greece. It bridged the historical divide from the Middle Ages to modern history (at least from a European perspective). Yet we find ourselves in a still newer modern “age of technology” in which robotics, gene editing and other once-unthinkable realities are defining our existence. More...
We Did Not Change the World
By Joshua Kim. San Francisco, technology, and higher education: 1998 to 2018. More...