Yearly Archives: 2016

The Unseen Face of Discrimination

The Unseen Face of Discrimination in the Romanian Educational Context Discrimination is a widely spread phenomenon inside the Romanian educational system. We have an educational culture and context which favors maintaining and spreading this phenomenon. A great percentage of the teachers adopt a an obsolete teaching model which treats differences as attributes for stigmatization, while…
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Dragon manicure

Dragon manicure I begin this article a little intimidated by the level of the other articles in this series, written by people I appreciate very much and above. What follows is a version with fewer words, but more autobiography, about subtle discrimination, the unconscious one, the one we don’t even detect most of the times…
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Education and Human Rights: Tools for Inclusion

Education and human rights: tools for inclusion, intercultural dialogue and democracy ”Human rights begin with breakfast”, René Cassin used to say. This quote, so synthetic, yet so clear, is a very useful starting point for understanding why the education for human rights is necessary in every person’s and every community’s life, in order to cohabit…
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Education for Inclusion Starts with the Kid with Disabilities’ Family

Education for Inclusion Starts with the Kid with Disabilities' Family I’ve spent the past eight years trying to figure out a way of leaving the house without the raging bull look. The rare moments of finding the way were always followed by a crushing wave of”whys” which inevitable converged into periods of depression.  The variable…
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