Nations worldwide consider education an important tool of economic and social development and currently time advocate the use of innovative strategies to prepare students for knowledge and skills acquisition. Especially in the last decade European countries have promoted a series of revisions in theirs curriculum and the way teachers are trained to put them into … Continue reading "Mauricio Pietrocola: “Innovative education and risk taking”"

I am at the beginning of a new project. Its specific shape will depend upon how much material I obtain from the Clinton presidential library and other government archives. I will briefly address these problems at our session. But I would like to use the session to present my preliminary ideas on the timing of … Continue reading "Judith Stein: “The United States, Globalization, and Neoliberalism”"

Sujatha Fernandes is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela (Duke University Press, 2010) and Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures (Duke … Continue reading "Sujatha Fernandes: “Invisible Women: Storytelling in the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Campaign”"