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Como promover a conscientização e o engajamento de jovens de diferentes culturas para que possam impactar no futuro? Para Baitong Yan, fundadora da organização não-governamental No-Boundaries, a resposta está na arte. Instigar a criatividade e a imaginação de crianças e de adolescentes para retratar seus pontos de vista sob uma questão relevante inspirou a ex-aluna da Teachers College, da Universidade de Columbia, a criar uma plataforma internacional de arte e de educação visando conectar jovens artistas sem fronteiras de nacionalidade, de idiomas ou de cultura.
Discussion about teacher training and education challenges in Brazil celebrates Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro’s 5th-Anniversary
Susan Fuhrman, President of Columbia University’s Teachers College, Claudia Costin, Former Director for Education at the World Bank, and Maria Helena Guimarães de Castro, Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Education (MEC), were main speakers during the event on March, 13.
Paul Beatty talks about racism for a receptive audience in FLUP
The professor was invited to participate in the panel “Variações Sobre um Velho Tema” (Variations on an old theme) together with the writer Joana Gorjão Henriques (Portugal) and the Brazilian anthropologist Julio de Tavares to debate racism, the African diaspora and colonialism.