The past two years have been defined by global events that have caused social, economic, political, and cultural change. Russia’s war on Ukraine, inflation, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and rebuilding post-pandemic are only samples of the plethora of … Continue reading
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Education as a Tool for Reconciliation: The Failure of the Canadian Curriculum
As of 2022, the Canadian federal curriculum has yet to mandate Indigenous education for Canadian youth. The lack of Indigenous culture, history, and perspectives in the Canadian curriculum has failed to adequately promote Indigenous learning and directly goes against the calls for actions in the TRC.
The Unspoken Costs of Opportunistic Education
For students coming from developing countries, going to university in North America or Europe is the opportunity of a lifetime — a chance at a successful life. Yet who’s not to say that an international education is just a glorification of Western perpetuations of what entails a world class education?
A Troubled Past Unburied: The Return of the Taliban to Power in Afghanistan
For those who lived through the first Taliban regime, memories spark fear that they will return to a place of little to no freedom of expression, minimal employment, poor security, and, more specifically, gender inequality.
Mouvement du gilet orange, victime du « slacktivisme »?
Le jeudi 30 septembre 2021, des milliers de Canadiens et Canadiennes se sont réunis en solidarité et ont porté le gilet orange pour la journée de la vérité et de la réconciliation.
Southeast Asia’s Post-COVID-19 School Re-openings: Exposing Institutional Inequalities
Indeed, many instances of educational inequity have resulted in children from Global South countries not being able to attend school at all.
Developmental Hypocrisy: US Developmental Aid and San Francisco’s Housing Crisis
Until the Western world realizes that it is not the model society it makes itself out to be, problems of housing insecurity, education, and poverty will continue to devastate its citizens and societies.
Education in Bangladesh During COVID-19
The reopening of educational institutions was delayed to September; however, Bangladesh didn’t have the digital infrastructure to move their complete education system to an online platform as planned.