According to the United Nations, “[e]very minute 20 people leave everything behind to escape war, persecution or terror” and among these people are refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced person, stateless persons, and returnees (https://www.un.org/en/observances/refugee-day). On Saturday, June 20, 2020 we are celebrating them by highlighting children’s books for World Refugee Day. As we keep pushing…
“Los límites del derecho a la libertad de expresión, tal como decíamos, comienzan a hacerse obvios en el transcurrir de los años 1960 y de los 1970 con la propagación y consolidación de los medios de comunicación de masas (sobre todo la televisión), que revolucionaron las dimensiones del fenómeno comunicacional y evidenciaron su inclinación multidireccional: no se es libre sólo emitiendo información sino también buscando, recibiendo y compartiéndola.” (L. Daudén)
“Impressionism raises complex and interesting questions about realistic representation. Although we tend to have powerful reflexive judgments about what is realistic in art and what is not, the basis for such judgments is frequently unclear. Supporters of Impressionist painting subtly but substantially shifted the criteria for judging truth to reality in painting.”
(Cramer and Grant)
Watch Ms. Mary’s Bedtime Storytime here and here! 1) Richard Scarry’s Bedtime Stories by Richard Scarry 2) Sweet Dreams by Rose A. Lewis 3) The Goodnight Train by June Sobel 4) Bedtime for Mommy by Amy Krouse Rosenthal 5) The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson 6) I Love You Too! By Michael…
For years to decades, centuries to generations, racism has been a problem that plagues the world. It is important for children to understand at an early age that racism should not be tolerated, and that while it most significantly impacts black communities, indigenous populations and other people of color, it is an issue that everyone…
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“A more sophisticated understanding of intellectual cooperation and innovation calls for the understanding of great sociological, economic, political and technological forces surrounding them. In this essay, I discuss the hegemony of electronic-computer capitalism and the changes it provokes in economic, academic and political life, in order to situate in a larger context the issues and challenges we currently face.” (G. Lins Ribeiro)
