World Forum Radio
World Forum Radio is the audio podcast - hosted by iTunes - for the early childhood leaders' community. The podcast promotes the exchange of ideas between people and cultures on all topics related to young children.
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Episode 8: George Forman
George Forman grew up in Monroe, Louisiana, received his doctorate in developmental psychology at the University of Alabama, worked with Howard Gardner at Project Zero, and then moved to Amherst, Massachusetts, where he is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of Massachusetts and the President of Videatives, Inc. He has also been involved with programs in Reggio Emilia, Italy.
His interest in video began in Buffalo, New York working with Irv Siegel. "We had these huge reel-to-reel tape machines" and made hours and hours of videotapes of children and, "I began to see small nuances of behavior that I might never have seen if we hadn't had the video, and I began to realize how powerful it was."
Episode 7: TJ Skalski
TJ Skalski is Principal of The Mother Earth's Children's Charter School (MECCS), the first Indigenous charter school in Canada. Originally from the Blood Reserve and raised in southern Alberta, she eventually left to complete her education, including a Masters of Education degree.
Surrounded by Mother Nature, MECCS recently moved from Wabamun into the former Saint John's School of Alberta located 35 minutes southwest of Stony Plain, AB on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River near Genessee. A Program Showcase on MECCS can be found in the January/February 2010 issue of Exchange.
For additional information, go to meccs.org.
Episode 6: Meridas Eka Yora
Meridas Eka Yora is the founder and director of the institution Fajar Hiayah for Islamic Education and Director of the Yayasan Fajar Hidayah Foundation. Meridas developed three boarding schools for children orphaned as a result of that devastation in Aceh.
Aceh, a special territory on the Southern tip of Indonesia, was the closest land to the epicenter of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, in which more than 225 Indonesians were killed and 500,000 left homeless.
For additional information, click here.
Episode 5: Irma Allen
Irma Allen is Chairperson of the Swaziland Environment Authority (the equivalent of the EPA in the United States), and a member of the World Forum Nature Action Collaborative for Children. She has wide experience in development work in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, and her M.A. from the University of Zimbabwe. One of her main interests is to promote and assist the process of integrating environment into formal and non formal education at all levels (specially early childhood).
She has worked as a teacher, University lecturer, Director of In-service Education, and technical advisor to Projects in curriculum development and teacher education. She also works closely with the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCD) Unit of the Ministry of Education developing materials, training teachers, and monitoring and evaluating ECCD programs. In 1991 Ms. Allen was named to the United Nations Environmental Programs Global 500 Honor Roll for her work in Swaziland.
Episode 4: Maysoun Chehab
Maysoun Chehab is the Regional Early Childhood Care and Development Program Coordinator at the Arab Resource Collective (ARC), a not-for-profit non-governmental organization based in Beirut, Lebanon. She has a Masters degree in Special Education with focus on learning disabilities, and a BA in Child and Family Counseling from the University of Michigan. Maysoun has coordinated ECCD projects in Lebanon, Syria, Sudan, Egypt, and Yemen. Recently, she introduced a conflict resolution model program to Lebanese schools and a post-conflict community based psychosocial intervention program in Lebanon. Maysoun has also served as a Global Leader for the World Forum. For additional information on ARC, visit www.mawared.org
Episode 3: Delfena Mitchell
Delfena Mitchell is Director of the Liberty Children's Home, on the outskirts of Belize City. This program opened in the summer of 2005 and is licensed to house up to 40 children, predominantly between birth to 5 years of age. However, older children who have younger siblings in care are and will always be accommodated. All of the children at the care center have been abandoned, abused or orphaned and many have disabilities, special needs or are HIV positive. Further information on this program is available at www.libertyfoundation.org.uk/projects_libertycareprogram.html
Episode 2: Deevia Bhana
Deevia Bhana is Professor of Education at the University of KwaZulu - Natal in South Africa. In her doctoral dissertation she explored the constructions of gender and childhood sexuality. Her current interests include gender and early childhood sexualities, violence and youth, and HIV/AIDS education. She is a co-author of a new book, Towards Gender Equality South African Schools During the HIV and AIDS Epidemic (2009), and of several recent articles, including "Male Teachers Talk about Gender Violence: Zulu Men Demand Respect" in Education Review (2009), "They've Got All the Knowledge: HIV Education, Gender and Sexuality in South African Primary Schools" in the British Journal of Sociology of Education (2009), and "Girls Hit! Constructing and Negotiating Violent African Femininities in a Working-Class Primary School" in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (2008). Professor Bhana participated in her first World Forum in Belfast in May 2009.
Episode 1: Barnabas Otaala
For the inaugural broadcast we feature
Barnabas Otaala, Dean of Education at Uganda Martyr's University and a champion of the World Forum since day one. Barnabas and Jacqueline Hayden were awarded a World Forum networking grant to study the impact of HIV/AIDS on young children in Namibia. Their report, HIV/AIDS and the Young Child, which was distributed to all attendees at World Forum 2005 in Montreal, was the impetus for the establishment of the World Forum Voices of Hope working group.
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