Tag: school

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.

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

Soul + Body

Good Food

Miss Gienia

The school canteen menu in Poland is full of traditional comfort food. That same home-made feeling of culinary nostalgia can also be found in the country’s milk bars.

Marta Zboralska

People Are to Blame

Art + Stories, World + People

Dreams and Visions, Opinions

People Are to Blame

9-year-old child Marianna talks about her two-week quarantine, teaching during the pandemic, and whose fault the virus is.

Berenika Steinberg

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