Education understood as a pillar of political activity, on the basis of criticism and resistance, becomes a fundamental means for struggling to end poverty, marginalization, slavery and exploitation.
The Berlin-based social start-up Kiron Open Higher Education delivers higher education to refugees. Through an innovative blended learning model that consists of online and offline elements, bureaucratic, financial and legal barriers are overcome.
Closing remarks to Strasbourg’s World Forum for Democracy 2016, by " an interloper from Down Under."
Democracy is not something you take from one country and put in another, was the message to a reporter from the openDemocracy youth newsroom.
Despite the fact that our societies, laws and political climates have changed immensely over the last century, the concept of democratic representation has remained fundamentally the same in most nations.
Right-wing movements in the US are repackaging ideas from white nationalism into a new, more middle-class culture by using the strategies and language of the left (4,500 words).
"Opening up new forms of political participation to hear the voices of the politically marginalised is critical for the well being of our polity." Interview for the World Forum for Democracy 2016.
“Not really. It’s a crisis of everybody’s values and everybody’s solidarity, and how far they’re willing to go to ensure human rights for everybody.”
We must keep in mind that as academics we are at our best, not when we agree to disagree, but exactly when we disagree to agree.
As in the NHS, the government’s structural changes to schools are just the start of a massive privatisation process.
When shame becomes honour, victims become offenders. Rhodes Must Fall is a case in point.
