What are some of the major lessons that practitioners and scholars of Educational Change can learn from your work? DO: Policymakers often think about improvement in terms of identifying what works in general, based upon randomized control trials (RCT), often seen as a gold standard in certain ...
We’re heading to Norway’s third-largest city, Trondheim. Also known as the Viking capital, Trondheim boasts abundant culinary traditions, particularly at Christmas time. Monocle’s Oslo correspondent, Lars Bevanger, takes… 17 Dec 2024 Christmas special We’re getting into the festive spirit wit...
Emojis have become an integral part of our messaging experience, be it on WhatsApp, Snapchat, or Instagram. It helps us fill in many emotional and expressive cues, which are otherwise not available through texts. Over the years, many emojis covering life’s aspects have been added. However,...
for the holidays the way I usually do — via a plane filled with folks of indeterminate COVID status talking and coughing and breathing around me for 8 hours — and no point to being a disease vector to the friends and family that I visit. Or to getting it myself in the U.S., bei...
The summer solstice and subsequent longest day of the year are celebrated by many cultures around the world with numerous traditions, holidays and festivals. From sunrise gatherings to midsummer festivals, summer solstice celebrations certainly blow the winter cobwebs away. ...
Post by:Camila Camila grew up between the French Canadian and Chilean cultures, before moving to Scotland in 2012. When she’s not travelling or writing about travels, Camila loves to read, run, and puzzle. Her favourite destinations have been Reykjavík, Copenhagen, Estonia and Cape Town. ...
Finland’s Baltic neighbor Estonia shares an equally old sauna tradition, and its sauna traditions this year are getting buzz thanks to the film “Smoked Sauna Sisterhood” (“Savusanna Sõsarad” in Estonian), a 2023 documentary on that country’s ancient sauna tradition and the women who pa...
The summer solstice and subsequent longest day of the year are celebrated by many cultures around the world with numerous traditions, holidays and festivals. From sunrise gatherings to midsummer festivals, summer solstice celebrations certainly blow the winter cobwebs away. ...
The main experience that we enjoyed together in this 2024 was theroad tripwe did toNamibiaduring the summer holidays. We spent over two weeks driving up and down the country along solitary and unpaved roads, throughdeserts, mountains, canyons, along the coast… We did a bit of camping and ...
The most expensive countries in Europe to visit include France, England, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, and Germany. All of these are in Western or Northern Europe, with Scandinavia being one of the most expensive regions in the world. If you spend lots of time here, you’ll need ...