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December 12, 2013

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Eid - The islamic celebration after the month of Ramadan

Intiraymi - A south American sun god festival

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post-workshop reflection

Looking back at the week we spent at MGIS, concluding at a most enthralling workshop that we attended only this afternoon, we find ourselves at a junction with a lot more opportunities, ideas, inspirations, and ideologies. To bring down the workshop to a gist would be difficult and also unfair, but I'll try to keep what we need for our project sake. There were a lot of new ideas thrown and woven in beautifully in the narrative of the dialogue. Most importantly we were introduced to the idea of democratic education and global systems of learning. It can be identified as a counter to the analytic system of learning that most of us come from - A concept that emphasises a macro to micro (whole to particular) idea of learning for every subject. Introduced by a couple of french philosophers of the 1920's, this idea has a minority of followers as of know, owing to power balances and politics; but keen educationalists in this realm have found grounds to keep it going. Friere is ...

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