I caught myself saying ‘Never’ the other day; to be fair my wife caught me, and pulled me up. “I’m never going to pray for someone in front on me in the bread queue,” I declared – on 3 separate occasions, to 3 different people – after it was suggested at church that this was […]
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Fast Fashion
Maybe its just my perception, but recently there seems to have been a lot reported in the news in regards to how our spending habits are negatively impacting our planet. Fast fashion – ‘fast’ because it speeds up the lag between cat walk and consumer, by manufacturing and selling clothes cheaply – is promoting an […]
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Re-positioning the Curriculum
In feeding-back findings from our world-wide research into child-centred inquiry-based approaches to education, we were asked which curriculum we are planning to use. Some parent-carers have concerns that the South African curriculum is not rigorous enough, and that it is not supporting children to develop skills they need to thrive in the 21st century; skills […]
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Facing up to a totally switched on Jesus
Midway through our worldwide research into quality education there was an opportunity to visit schools in Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv Yafo, and explore some of the Holy sites in Bethlehem and The Galilee – including Magdala (above). The only thing I can recall about Magdala was a restaurant on the roundabout as we entered what is now […]
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