As promised in my first post, the EDEN President’s Blog is a collective voice of our network’s leadership. Fulfilling that promise, I’m delighted to introduce you to our Blog’s first guest writer my dear friend and EDEN Vice-President Alan Bruce. He wrote us an inspiring post sharing his vision on how innovation can contribute to shape the future of our schools. You can find more about Alan’s background, interests and work here.
As you know, school innovation has a special place in EDEN’s heart and next year the Open Classroom initiative will once again celebrate this close connection. In his post, Alan also expresses his vivid impressions of Brazil, our colleagues there and their work. Let me just share with you at this respect that EDEN and ABED – the Brazilian association of distance education have just decided to deepen their long and successful collaboration, by extending the areas of cooperation and increasing reciprocity of benefits and networking opportunities for our members.
September has many associations. For most of us, these center around our memories of school and the bitter-sweet experience of leaving home, meeting friends old and new, carting books point to point and even occasionally learning. School is embedded in our cultures, maturation, discovery (information, knowledge and rules) and rites of passage. -> Continue to full post
