schools
Pioneering Rural Thai School
One of Thailand’s daily newspapers, The Nation, published a story last week about the Mechai Bamboo School, an innovative institution which is mostly run by the students. The students select the incoming applicants, hire the teachers, promote patterns of community service, and foster student enterprises. They are involved with such school business issues as purchases, […]
A Malaysian Newspaper Revisits a Semai Village
Five months ago, a Malaysian newspaper, The Star, accompanied a celebrity to the Semai village of Kampung Ulu Tual and last week it published a story about a follow-up visit. The village is located in the Cameron Highlands, a mountainous region in the northwestern corner of Malaysia’s Pahang state. In mid-July, The Star sent a […]
Hutterite Children Use iPads
A South Dakota school district has purchased iPads for the children at a Hutterite colony school, and apparently the colony leaders are quite supportive. It hardly needs to be said that the kids are thrilled, even if the reasons for the purchase of the devices were not all that positive. The school at the Wolf […]
Schooling for the Semai
A well-known Malaysian sports figure recently spent a day at a Semai village to find out the needs of the people and to highlight a report on the major development issues facing the nation. According to the Wikipedia, the sports star, Nicol David, is ranked as the world’s number one women’s squash player, and she […]
Reports of Violence in Thai High Schools [journal article review]
A recent journal article reports that, due to sweeping social changes, high school students in Thailand witness nearly as much violence as young people in the United States. The study, by Penchan Sherer and Moshe Sherer, was published in the May 2014 issue of the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. The authors […]
Schooling for the Lepchas
The government of Sikkim announced last week that out of the 401 school students who had taken exams last December to apply for scholarships, the top three winners were all Lepchas. Mongit Lepcha, from the Mangan Senior Secondary School, won the top score in the Chief Minister’s Special Meritorious Scholarship Scheme (CMSMSS). Pema Laden Lepcha […]
Hutterite Colony School Burns Down
Some Hutterite children in South Dakota are attending a public school, at least for the time being, because the one at their colony burned down. The story provides some insights into the approaches taken by the Hutterites to educating their children. According to a news report from Brookings, SD, the school at the Red Willow […]
Buid Traditions Taught in Mangyan School
Allan Agaw, a 16 year old student, clearly cherishes the sharing tradition of his society—he hopes to give back to his Buid community in the Philippines after he completes his education. The spirit of giving and sharing, an outstanding characteristic of the Buid, was noted in the scholarly works of Thomas Gibson and, more recently, […]
Lepcha Schoolgirl Meets Famous Actor
A couple of school children from Sikkim, in northern India, one of whom is a Lepcha girl, have had the chance to meet a prominent Bollywood actor and film an advertisement with him. The two kids are celebrities in their school in the town of Melli, Sikkim, which is just a few miles north of […]
Kerala Government Takes Interest in the Kadar
A minister from the government of Kerala, in India, visited a couple Kadar colonies in her state last week and promised to allot lands to the people. P.K. Jayalakshmi, Minister for Welfare of Backward Communities, visited the Vachumaram and Pukalappara colonies near Athirappilly to announce that she had started formal procedures which would give the […]
