Children and Education

Written by Kamyar Sunday, 18 January 2009 18:39

Me and a dear friend of mine, Mohsen, have been engaged in a dialogue about education. Since his cute little girl was born a few months ago, Mohsen has been thinking about best educational practices, the same subject that I have been engaged with lately. As this dialogue has been unfolding, we have shared many interesting resources with each other, including books, websites, articles and inspirational speeches.

Here I am going to introduce three of them, all of which I have found very interesting:

• Edutopia.org, where you can find loads of videos and articles about alternative ways of schooling. You can also subscribe to the videocast and watch the videos on your iPod.
• Last Child in the Woods, a book by Richard Louv, about children's connection to the natural world and the importance of saving them from what he calls 'Nature-Deficit Disorder'.
  
• A 20 minute speech by Ken Robinson about creativity and education:

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