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Well-Asked Questions
World + People
Dreams and Visions

Well-Asked Questions

Nobel Prize laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit V. Banarjee suggest that in order to address pressing world issues such as poverty, scholars must steer clear of generalization.
Paulina Wilk
A Chance for Gifts of Fate
World + People
Dreams and Visions

A Chance for Gifts of Fate

Non-traditional teaching approaches that integrate serendipity and social emotional learning can greatly aid the development of children in the classroom.
Maria Hawranek
Children Are Not Filing Cabinets
World + People
The Other School

Children Are Not Filing Cabinets

Educational neuroscientist Marzena Żylińska talks about why the school system should be moving away from the traditional culture of testing and correcting.
Berenika Steinberg
A Kibbutz on the Couch
World + People
The Other School

A Kibbutz on the Couch

Israeli therapist Shai Orr – author of the book “Miraculous Parenting” – talks about education, kibbutzim, and what it means to be successful.
Ewa Pawlik
More Than a Thousand Words
World + People
The Other School

More Than a Thousand Words

Isotype – the set of pictorial symbols developed by Otto and Marie Neurath – was an egalitarian project, aimed at developing a universal language for communicating social-scientific data.
Andrzej Kula
Handwriting Shown to Be Better for Memory Than Typing, at Any Age
World + People
The Other School

Handwriting Shown to Be Better for Memory Than Typing, at Any Age

A new study collected 500 data points per second. Handwriting won out.
Derek Beres
My Semester With the Snowflakes
Art + Stories
Opinions

My Semester With the Snowflakes

At 52, I was accepted to Yale as a freshman. The students I met there surprised me.
James Hatch
Hopepunk and Solarpunk
World + People, Art + Stories
Nature, Experiences

Hopepunk and Solarpunk

Alyssa Hull tries to find optimism in teaching cli-fi to terrified students.
Alyssa Hull
When Will I Learn to Fly, Mum?
World + People
The Other School

When Will I Learn to Fly, Mum?

Anna Grąbczewska, President of the Children’s University Foundation in Poland, talks about the curiosity of children, why school doesn’t work for everyone, and how we can change teaching methods for the better.
Aleksandra Pezda
School Is Great in the Afternoon
Humor + Variety
Variety

School Is Great in the Afternoon

In this edition of “Conversations from the Playground”, Ewa Pawlik talks to Lu and her friends about every child’s favourite subject: school.
Ewa Pawlik