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It’s an honor to have something you do at one conference (IDEC 2023) be recognized to inspire the theme of another (EUDEC 2024)… this is an idea whose time has come. For too long we’ve accepted education practices that violate the Rights of the Child, and This. Must. Stop.
Everybody claims they want innovation in education - but unless policy makers walk that talk, it isn’t going to happen.
Join us at BALPP premises (BMICH) this Sunday (30th) 10:00-12:00
To register contact @sifaan (0766 65 68 68)
At the last plenary of the @EuForumRJ’s Int Conf - on systemic violence and restorative justice - @sifaan made a request: Affirmative action to include, at the next conf, a marginalized group that is often systemically excluded from spaces where decisions are made about them.
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And although the conference itself is not such a decision making space, it is one where hearing people’s lived experience is valued - and it can lead the way in including this marginalized identity.
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This identity is so routinely marginalized, gaslit and excluded that we don’t usually even realize that the voices of over 2 billion people are going unheard… the voices of children.
#EFRJ2024 #EFRJConference
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A memorable circle hosted by co-founder @sifaan at the 12th International Conference of the @EuForumRJ on how Restorative Practices could help address the invisible inner-child trauma arising from normalized violence against children
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(not just corporal or other forms of punishment, but any practice or experience that harms the dignity of the child) which otherwise can be transmitted intergenerationally #EFRJ2024 #EFRJConference #Tallinn #Estonia
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Interesting statement by Dr. Priyangie Amarabandu at the Global Mindfulness Summit that the main cause of school children using drugs is stress from education, and that mindfulness helps them manage the stress.
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If you're going to study animal behaviour, you'd have to decide whether it's in captivity, or in their natural habitat: you wouldn’t expect them to be the same.
If you're going to study children... wait, where are the children in their natural habitats?
open.substack.com/pub/kinder…
It's always more profitable to help a few students get ahead in education than to fix the problem so that everyone can succeed.
“The University of Zurich is withdrawing from the university ranking published by the Times Higher Education magazine. The ranking creates false incentives, the university announced on Wednesday”
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Conventional Education violates the Rights of the Child. Don't believe us? Watch @Sifaan's session on "RIGHTing a Wrong: Conventional Education vs the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child" at the Liberation of Education Conference 2024. youtu.be/reKayle60tg
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RIGHTing a Wrong - Child Rights IN education.
Education is seen as an enabling right because “having an education helps people to access all of their other human rights”. However, this says nothing about respecting human rights while being educated -
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it gets ignored because adults don’t know Child Rights either.
This session (Tuesday 27th 5:30 a.m. Sri Lanka time / 00:00 UTC / 19:00 EST on 26th) will share examples of this, as well as how the problem is baked into the very structure of schools.
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Visit liberationofeducation.org to register (fee starting at 3 USD)
If you’ve ever felt uncomfortable about having to coerce / coax your child to go to school or do their schoolwork, or had to pick up the pieces after traumatic experiences at school, you need to be at this session
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