teaching

New York City: The school garden is the new classroom

Sidsel Overby Hartlev — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:03:01 +0000

On the roof of the Robert Simon Complex on Lower East Side, there will soon be a roof kitchen garden. The garden belongs to three municipal schools in the area and will function as an outdoor classroom for students of all grades. The project is being managed by the designer of the World Trade Center Memorial, Michael Arad, who is also a parent at the school, although the idea for the garden and the initiative came from a large group of volunteer teachers and parents at the schools.

Copenhagen: Climate learning for all senses

Astrid Svane — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:34:57 +0000

The changing climate is often described in the news in terms of scientific reports or political negotiations. Face the Climate, however, wants to present climate change in a specific, contemporary way, enabling children and young people to relate to the issues in their own everyday lives. The journalists and photographers behind the project have visited nine families in nine different countries to tell the story of how climate change is affecting their lives. The facetheclimate.org website went online in October 2009.

Goa: Mobile schools

Astrid Svane — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:18:54 +0000

In Goa, mobile schools will follow the pupils and not vice-versa. The pupils are children of migrant workers from the state of Karnataka, Goa’s south-western neighbour in the southern part of India. Their parents are employed on short term contracts in Goa, building roads, working in quarries or at building sites. Their offspring cannot attend local schools for the simple reason that they do not speak the local language. The mobile classrooms are located in the parents’ camps, usually for 5-8 month until the families move on.