Start a conversation in your school about what education should be doing in the 21st Century. Use these two video clips as a starting point for a discussion about intercultural learning and global education.
These videos were created by Pearson Foundation Digital Arts Alliance and the Consortium for School Networking to encourage a new approach in schools that uses technology to go beyond the current classroom. Then add the perspective of what it could mean to include AFS in your school’s educational planning for the future.
A second video of interest presents portions of a speech by His Highness the Aga Khan to the Annual Meeting of the International Baccalaureate, in Atlanta, Georgia on 18 April 2008. Here is an excerpt from his speech:
“Together, we can help reshape the very definition of a well educated global citizen. And we can begin that process by bridging the learning gap which lies at the heart of what some have called a Clash of Civilizations, but which I have always felt was rather a Clash of Ignorances. In the years ahead, should we not expect a student at an IB school in Atlanta to know as much about Jomo Kenyatta or Muhammad Ali Jinnah as a student in Mombasa or Lahore knows about Atlanta’s great son, the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Should a Bangladeshi IB student reading the poems of Tagore at the Aga Khan Academy in Dhaka not also encounter the works of other Nobel Laureates in Literature such as the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk or America’s William Faulkner or Toni Morrison? Should the study of medieval architecture not include both the Chartres Cathedral in France and the Mosque of Djenne in Mali? And shouldn’t IB science students not learn about Ibn al-Haytham, the Muslim scholar who developed modern optics, as well as his predecessors Euclid and Ptolemy, whose ideas he challenged.”
What can AFS Programs do to help you internationalize your school?
These videos were created by Pearson Foundation Digital Arts Alliance and the Consortium for School Networking to encourage a new approach in schools that uses technology to go beyond the current classroom. Then add the perspective of what it could mean to include AFS in your school’s educational planning for the future.
A second video of interest presents portions of a speech by His Highness the Aga Khan to the Annual Meeting of the International Baccalaureate, in Atlanta, Georgia on 18 April 2008. Here is an excerpt from his speech:
“Together, we can help reshape the very definition of a well educated global citizen. And we can begin that process by bridging the learning gap which lies at the heart of what some have called a Clash of Civilizations, but which I have always felt was rather a Clash of Ignorances. In the years ahead, should we not expect a student at an IB school in Atlanta to know as much about Jomo Kenyatta or Muhammad Ali Jinnah as a student in Mombasa or Lahore knows about Atlanta’s great son, the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Should a Bangladeshi IB student reading the poems of Tagore at the Aga Khan Academy in Dhaka not also encounter the works of other Nobel Laureates in Literature such as the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk or America’s William Faulkner or Toni Morrison? Should the study of medieval architecture not include both the Chartres Cathedral in France and the Mosque of Djenne in Mali? And shouldn’t IB science students not learn about Ibn al-Haytham, the Muslim scholar who developed modern optics, as well as his predecessors Euclid and Ptolemy, whose ideas he challenged.”
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