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Share During the Onderwijsparade on Thursday, 4 March, the winners of the prestigious Teacher Awards were announced. Lotte Henrichs, lecturer at Educational Sciences and the Academic Teacher Training Primary Education (ALPO) has won the Outstanding Teacher Award 2021. Luciel van Vuuren, lecturer in Anatomy and Physiology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine has been awarded Teacher Talent of the year 2021. The jury chose these lecturers for the way in which they connect the university with soc...

Giving opportunities to talented people Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công  03/03/2021    10:00 GMT+7 The level of income is necessary but not a prerequisite. We have to give qualified people the chance to do what they can do so that they feel like they are contributing to the community. In part 2 of the online roundtable "Vietnam and Aspiration...

Follow the emotions to fight climate change A UNIGE researcher has compiled the scientific literature of the last five years linking emotion and climate change, highlighting the main levers that will make it possible to strengthen behaviour in favour of sustainable development. © All rights reserved Emotions are often the victim of their bad reputation, as they are considered “irrational”, but they play a major role in helping us assess the world and guide our behaviour. What is their role...

Tested prototypes of illustrations involving action simulations. (© UNIGE) (CN) — Long before a child can read, they can recognize and respond to the image of a school bus or rabbit in an illustrated book. That is, as long as they can see it. But for blind children, this experience is limited to the text of the story, with no visual cues to help them comprehend what they’re learning. Even tactile illustrations — images with a “sense of touch” — replicate visual experiences of the s...

Date Time Tactile books adapted for blind children Blind children do not apprehend the world in the same way as their sighted counterparts. A research team from UNIGE and Université Lumière Lyon 2 have developed tactile books that are tailored specifically to their needs. Tested prototypes of illustrations involving action simulations. © UNIGE Children’s books play a key role in child development and access to culture. Books with tactile illustrations are particularly useful for understand...

College of Education assistant professor Ilana Umansky is part of a team of researchers exploring how to improve educational opportunities, experiences...

Leveraging Soft Skills to Improve College and Career Readiness Neag School of Education associate professor Jennifer Freeman is working to improve college and career readiness for students with emotional and behavioral disorders. Image by Dickson Donatus from Pixabay Copy Link The transition from high school to college or the workforce is a major one for all students. While high schools work to ensure their graduates are prepared, students with emotional and behavioral disor...

Outgoing Trump nominates aides to public institutions AFP 22/12/2020 AFP © Andrej ISAKOVIC President Donald Trump has nominated Richard Grenell, a special envoy appointed by the prresident, to the Board of Trustees of the Holocaust Memorial in Washington DC While publicly denying he lost the election, outgoing President Donald Trump on Tuesday appointed several key aides to the boards of public institutions, a sign he is planning for his departure from the White House despi...

December 17, 2020 Pexels Giving kids opportunities to participate in imaginative play enables them to broaden their bright minds and creativity. Playing wizards or superheroes amongst themselves may appeal to adults as just simple childish antics, but as it turns out, it plays a crucial role in child development.  The importance of pretend play during childhood may even have positive effects on how your child can perceive emotions, according to a study published in the British Journal of Psyc...

In memoriam Irena Veisaitė: ‘I never doubted that I was Jewish’ 176 Irena Veisaitė / LRT Last Friday, Irena Veisaitė, a Jewish-Lithuanian literary scholar and Holocaust survivor, passed away at the age of 92. She had Covid-19. LRT.lt presents excerpts from interviews with Veisaitė collected in the book by Aurimas Švedas, Life Should Be Transparent. Born in Kaunas in 1928, Veisaitė was a known intellectual, theatre scholar, and human rights activist. Veisaitės mother died in the Kauna...