By Nanjala Nyabola—MIT Technology Review—August 22, 2018— In 2007, incumbent Mwai Kibaki won a divisive presidential election in Kenya. Street protests escalated to ethnic violence in parts of the country, and by April 2008 more than 1,500 people had been killed. A decade later, another election also featured widespread allegations of fraud, and more violence. […]
August 2018 Inaugural Sustainable (& Blended) Learning Cohort Visited the Carey Institute! We are thrilled to have hosted transnational educators at the Carey Institute for Global Good for the second annual Refugee Educator Academy summer workshop and our first ever Sustainable and Blended Learning Design event. Teachers from California, New York, Berlin, Palestine, and Jordan […]
Refugee Teacher Gains Resources, Perspective, and Hope Classes held outdoors give students a change of scenery. For eight weeks this summer, Syrian teacher Khaled Jasem traded his 20-by-9-footclassroom in a refugee camp in Zehla–capital of the Governorate of Bekka, roughly 30 miles east of Beirut—for a virtual learning space with educators from 9 countries. Jasem […]
July 2018 Photo credit: Jamel Mosely | NeXt Doc Fellow Jalena Keane-Lee meets documentary filmmaker Grace Lee via Skype. Young Filmmakers Find Confidence and Community at NeXt Doc Early last month, 16 emerging documentary filmmakers arrived on campus for NeXt Doc, a week-long intensive program that supports the next generation of diverse documentary storytellers. The […]
We are so very grateful to the Ballinger family for their generous gift of their home to the Institute. What a wonderful legacy! Known as the Hyde House, ca. 1796, it was originally a smaller house that was enlarged by Dr. Isaac Hyde to serve as a home and hospital. Later it was owned by storekeeper John S. […]
July 2018 Summer learning, connecting, and capacity building continues. We are thankful to all of our thought partners in this work, including participants in our courses, our summer working group, and all those who make themselves available to meet and discuss ideas and approaches with us. Among these great partners, we are fortunate to work […]
Young Filmmakers Find Confidence and Community at NeXt Doc Photo credit: Maya Suchak | NeXt Doc Fellows and staff with presenting filmmaker Khalik Allah. Early last month, 16 emerging documentary filmmakers arrived on campus for NeXt Doc, a week-long intensive program that supports the next generation of diverse documentary storytellers. The program, collaboratively organized by […]
June 2018 For many educators in the Global North, summer is a time to slow down (a bit), reflect on practice, engage with colleagues through trainings and other professional development opportunities, and prepare for the new school year. Here, at the Carey Institute for Global Good, we too are engaged in these learning and reflective […]
By Clair MacDougall—Wired—May 2, 2018— As day bleeds into night in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, Ntayia Lema Langas, the deputy warden of the Mara Conservancy, barrels across the landscape in a Land Rover flanked by rangers, crossing an invisible border into neighbouring Tanzania. A pickup full of Tanzanian rangers heading back across […]
May 2018 About Practice Notes Practice Notes is the new Center for Learning in Practice monthly newsletter. In it we talk about our own practice, matters of importance or interest to the larger learning in practice community, as well as our schedule of courses, activities, and events. If you would like to contribute a practice […]
