Stories about Education from October, 2006
El Salvador: Open Air Education
The weblog of El Salvador/CNY Companion Diocese shares photos of an open-air classroom in Ciudad Delgado.
Turkey: End of Student Festivals
Metroblogging Istanbul announces the Istanbul's Governor's Office decision to ban all student festivals as a means of combatting separatist group formation. “I wish they could find other ways of beating the ideological groups other than banning all youth fests…”
Arabisc: Ramadan, War, Freedom and Other Issues
With all Muslim countries marking the Holy Month of Ramadan, UAE blogger Bin Kerishan, wonders why people fast. كل العبادات تسبب للانسان الاما و معاناه كالحج و الصلاه و الصيام و الاخير من اقساها و اكثرها ضررا على صحته.. لماذا لا يكون الطقس الديني مسليا؟ كالذهاب لملاقاة الاصدقاء في المقهى...
Hong Kong: excess education
BWG blogs a survey about how parents in Hong Kong react when they got frustrated with their kids’ studies: Get out! go away! I don't want to see you anymore.
Kurdistance
I choose to begin this week's article with a disclaimer which is spawned in response to comments I received on last week's edition of Kurdistance: the contents of my articles are not of my own opinion, but rather the opinions of the bloggers that I cover. I try to remain...
Myanmar: Learning Korean Language
Madyjune in Myanmar talks about her first Korean language class. Younger people in Myanmar have taken to Korean pop-culture in a big way.
China: school murder case
Liao Zusheng's son was beaten to death at school in Fushan. Liao opened a blog in sina claiming that his son was murdered by teachers and staffs because of his criticism on the school fee and administration in the newspapers. He pleads the central government to intervene. One man bandwith...
Cambodia at a glance
Spurred by the fact that weblog stimulates open discussion among people who have common interest, Cambodians take their concerned issues online to share with the world who are listening to them. Is weblog community an open space for debate? In what way can this new tool enhance the way citizens...
Peru: Documentary on Rural Education Competes for Prize
The following post was originally written in Spanish at Cinencuentro. “Camino a la Escuela” (“The Road to School”) competes in the Seed of Tolerance contest of Current TV The director Humberto Saco writes us to let us know that a 6 minute short version of his documentary, Camino a la...
Russia: Police Target Ethnic Georgians
Sean's Russia Blog translates Russian police documents targeting ethnic Georgians.
Iraq: Iraqi Kurdistan Book Drive
Pearls of Iraq announces the details of an English language children's book drive for the Kurdish children in Sulaimaniya, Northern Iraq/Southern Kurdistan. This book drive is sponsered in part by Kurdistan Save the Children and the University of Sulaimaniya.
Debate about the Male Black Body
A thought provoking conversation between Eshuneutics and Naijablog about the Male Black Body.
Indonesia: International Potluck
Students from South-East and rest of Asia are increasing going to China to learn Mandarin. Christina, an Indonesian student in Fuzhou, Southern China throws a potluck party to welcome her new classmates from all over Asia and beyond.
Namibia: anti-corruption song contest
Museke writes about Anti-Corruption Song Contest in Namibia, “This is a worthy effort to make use of music in educating the populace about an issue that is paramount in African societies today – corruption.”
Kurdistance
Welcome back to this week's edition of Kurdistance! Hiwa gives us a wonderful link to a amatur video about the Kurdish community in Leeds, UK that is featured on the BBC. Hiwa also reports on an incident that has made headlines in Turkey. At a recent NATO seminar, an American...
India: On Ramanujan
Kamla Bhatt has a podcast – on Mathematics and Ramanujan. “Professor Freeman Dyson talks about Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan, the famous Indian mathematician. Prof. Dyson studied under Prof. GH Hardy in Cambridge University, and worked on Ramanujan’s partition of numbers.”
Tajikistan: Workers or Slaves
Vadim reports on the use of child labor in cotton harvesting in Tajikistan.
Japan: English education
Debito reports that the new Japanese Cabinet opposes primary school English education. The new education minister Ibuki believes that Japanese language ability is going down and they should work on their mother tongue than foreign languages.
Mongolia: Education in Flux
Alexa writes that Mongolia's education system is expanding for the first time so that students will be able to start at younger ages.
Arabic Gems
This blog is an attempt to present to the reader points of benefit concerning various aspects of the Arabic Language, with the aim of encouraging the non-Arabic speaker to embark upon his learning voyage, or to guide the current student through its various seas that may not have yet been...
Africa: beyond Afropessimism
“Discourses about Africa continue to be infected by what we used to call in the 1980s and 1990s Afropessimism, the belief that Africa is irredeemably doomed to backwardness and chaos. Afropessimism embodies two tendencies—vilification of African experiences and valorization of Euroamerican engagements with Africa, that Africa is incapable by itself...
