Posted on March 31, 2019
April's issue of Words Without Borders features a selection of poetry from Mozambique, including three playful, visual poems from the architect, artist, and author Hélder Rafael Faife.
Posted on March 27, 2019
A few weeks ago, WWB Campus collaborated with the Asia Society to host our first-ever live “Twitter chat” about global literature. The conversation was wide-ranging, with educators sharing strategies on everything from finding literature to providing context to supporting diverse students. Among the highlights:
Posted on March 25, 2019
A Kenyan teacher from a remote village who gave away most of his earnings to the poor won a $1 million prize on Sunday for his work teaching in a government-run school that has just one computer and shoddy Internet access.
On June 27-29, 2019, Re-imagining Migration will gather a selected group of leading teachers, scholars and professionals in education working in schools, museums, after-school spaces and policy at the National Gallery of Art and The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC. The purpose of this convening is to inspire a global network of educational innovators ready to re-imagine migration education in a way that fosters the academic, civic, social and emotional capacities of immigrant-origin children and youth and their peers.
The Education Department at the National Humanities Center works to provide leadership, training, resources, and partnerships that advance humanities education at the K–16 level. Our work focuses on the integration of strong scholarship and content, inquiry-based pedagogy, and emerging technology. We build bridges that put scholars and educators in conversation to support humanities classrooms at all levels.
Posted on March 20, 2019
We are a problem.
An interruption.
We don’t belong here…
Posted on March 01, 2019
What does the phrase "global literature" mean to you?