Although lifelong learning remains ubiquitous in policy discourse, in particular in the Western world, its meaning has been adapted to the dominant neoliberal ideology. In most contemporary education policies, adult learning and education are essentially regarded as the responsibility of the individual to...
The U.S. is the largest single global humanitarian funder, giving$13.9 billion in 2024, and largest supporter of U.N. agencies, meaning any changes to foreign assistance havesweeping impacts across geographies and issues. The pause in funding has since turned into the dis...
Participatory work is often viewed as being less “objective” and more like advocacy. “Should journalists be advocates or not?” is a key question. Yet, as noted during the Salon discussion, journalists have always interrogated the actions of powerful people – e.g., the Elon Musks of the...
Daniel and Goldston (2009) therefore also suggest that ‘encouraging adolescents to participate in activities that involve helping other people (e.g., volunteerism) in an effort to help adolescents to gain perspective on their problems, develop their assets or strengths, and to foster “meaning’...
On Thursday, President Donald Trumpannounced reciprocal tariffsfor virtually every country — meaning the U.S. will now levy the same amount on imports from a given country that that country levies on goods from the U.S. This, of course, is the culmination of a recent tariff spree from the...
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There is a better chance of USAID admitting failure in the future if the systems are in place to demonstrate these failures in hard data and learn from them. It’s about discovering why we failed – if we spend money and it doesn’t work, we can at least then identify weaknesses and ...
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To better understand the basics of concussions, we gathered expert info on what you should know: What are the signs of a concussion? Concussion is a clinical diagnosis, meaning there is "not one test that says this was definitely a concussion," says Dr. Daniel Torres, a neurologist at Leno...
A fall of around 17 pp starting from a baseline level of 21% meaning that almost no girls resident in communities where the ELA program operates, report being subject to such situation. Erulkar & Muthengi, 2009 Berhane Hewan was a 2-year pilot project that aimed to reduce the prevalence...