Multi-award winning film from Bhutan. A young teacher in modern Bhutan dreams of becoming a singer in Australia. He accepts with a heavy heart to teach for a season in the civilization-removed village of Lunana, in the Himalayan highlands, with no water, electricity or amenities. There a whole world is revealed to him and what […]
Tag: community
“The Other”
In the school of a mountainous village of Crete, in Patsideros, Heraklion, there are five Albanian and one Greek child. Xenophobia and racism appear inside and outside the school and concern the small village community. The teacher has just returned to his place of origin to offer his services to the school he himself attended. […]
Website of the Pedagogical Group “The Skasiarchy” – Experimental palpations for a community school
The official website of the pedagogical group “The Skasiarcheio”, which brings together people of letters and arts, teachers from the fields of primary, secondary and tertiary education in order to exchange views, ideas and proposals for a public school, compensatory to inequalities and political in its characteristics, for a school of the community, in which […]
ERT Report – “The meeting”
The ERT Report team visited the school community of Vlora High School during the year and met teachers with vision and students who like school. Using tools of experiential learning, equal participation and respect for differences, they learn how to coexist in a small society and be “citizens of their own country”, i.e. the school. […]
“We are the ones they come to when nobody can help”: Afghan smugglers’ perceptions of themselves and their communities
This paper analyses smugglers’ perceptions of themselves and their relationships with their communities in Afghanistan. Through interviews with 23 smugglers across three Afghan sites, the study focuses on micro-level dynamics, examining how smugglers see their roles in society and how these perceptions have evolved. The paper highlights that smuggling networks have a long-standing and respected […]
Petros Charavitsidis
Petros Charavitsidis – Assistant Professor of Critical Education […]