Tag: education

  • Creativity in Education talk at Teacher conference

    Creativity in Education talk at Teacher conference

    Last weekend, I spoke and taught at the Pädagogische Hochschule St. Gallen (PHSG). The teacher training conference was under the heading “Creativity – Learning for Tomorrow”. Here’s a short writeup by someone else: The topic was introduced with a skit illustrating the importance of innovation in education. As an example of discovering creative talent at schools, the…

  • Earning liberty, enabling human security

    Earning liberty, enabling human security

    Does putting rights before responsibilities pose an impediment to development as well as a grass-roots danger?  Jyoti Guptara, GCSP’s novelist-in-residence, examines the disconnect between rights rhetoric at an international level and the way people perceive and interpret them, and argues that culture is king when it comes to human security. Inscribed over an arched entrance…