Education | Schools | Culture

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2024

Election Time: Certain Danger

As is clear from current US elections and other events around the world, certainty will move a certain proportion of the population. Say something – almost [...]

2022

Making Changes that Work for the Long Term

We have, over the last few weeks been engaged in almost 20 strategic planning consultations, both face-to-face and online. One of the topics that has [...]

2022

[Part 3 of 3] Is social justice negotiable? The political and cultural interpretations of social justice

Excerpt from keynote given at the 2022 Alliance for International Education conference: Educating for Peace and Social Justice: the role of international education. Part three [...]

2022

[Part 2 of 3] Is social justice negotiable? The political and cultural interpretations of social justice

Excerpt from keynote given at the 2022 Alliance for International Education conference: Educating for Peace and Social Justice: the role of international education. ——————————————————————————————————- Part [...]

2022

Looking Back with Nostalgia or Looking Forwards with Imagination

Celebrating 50 years in Singapore this year means celebrating the past while also looking to the future, as reflected in the title of our recent [...]

2022

What’s an unacceptable joke?

A lot of ink has been spilled over the recent fiasco at the Oscars’ ceremony; but little of it has focussed on what are, for [...]

2022

Belonging

[Excerpt from Opening of TEDx UWCSEAEast 18 March ; theme of Belonging] Belonging. ….It’s hard to pin down exactly what it means, but we probably [...]

2022

How should schools respond to conflicts?

The world is reacting to the war in Ukraine in an unprecedented manner. Moral condemnation, political outrage and commercial isolation of Russia is overwhelming (though [...]

2022

Finalsite University Keynote: Challenges and Opportunities of International Education

Keynote to Finalsite University, Singapore Feb 2023. Welcome everyone to the United World College of SE Asia, Dover Campus for two days at Finalsite [...]

2020

Individuals, Autonomy, Agency

I have recently had the pleasure and privilege of working with my wonderful Grade 12 Theory of Knowledge class to look at perspectives, paradigms and [...]

2020

The hard-knock life: Talking about Privilege

How difficult do you think your childhood was? Please think for a moment about how you would answer this. Then ponder how you might answer [...]

2020

Two ways to catch the Anti-Racism Bug

The official BLM movement started in 2013. Like the #MeToo movement, the ideas have been simmering for a long, long time but exploded when the [...]

Education | Schools | Culture

Election Time: Certain Danger

Making Changes that Work for the Long Term

[Part 3 of 3] Is social justice negotiable? The political and cultural interpretations of social justice

[Part 2 of 3] Is social justice negotiable? The political and cultural interpretations of social justice

Looking Back with Nostalgia or Looking Forwards with Imagination

What’s an unacceptable joke?

Belonging

How should schools respond to conflicts?

Finalsite University Keynote: Challenges and Opportunities of International Education

Individuals, Autonomy, Agency

The hard-knock life: Talking about Privilege

Two ways to catch the Anti-Racism Bug

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