| I don't use my tie every day |
| Looking up directly from the way the brain works, brain forms patterns and so on, then thinking is as we go along these patterns and creativity is how we change these patterns. |
| Published on: 03.11.2009 |
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| The School: A Perfect Place for Brainwashing? |
| Marija Golubeva |
| If our schools functioned as little democracies empowering the individuals who study there and giving them a sense of equality and security there would be no need for spoon-feeding students with dogma. |
| Published on: 04.03.2008 |
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| In loco parentis |
| Marks Keiss |
What all educators must do, is remember that the children who have been placed in our care are all the more precious because they are not ours, and their parents have a right to expect us to do everything possible to keep them safe. |
| Published on: 07.08.2007 |
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| Historia magistra vitae |
| Marija Golubeva |
| Published on: 22.05.2007 |
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| The Conference "Does Latvia follow Ireland's path migration of workforce" |
| Published on: 25.01.2006 |
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| Reform – the last drop |
| If you compare the amendments in the Education Law to natural processes, then it could be said that Latvian society is generally “heating up.” No one is indifferent anymore; not those out on the street shouting “no” to the reform, nor those who choose to stay at home and watch events on their TVs. |
| Published on: 09.03.2004 |
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| Interview with Guntis Vasilevskis |
| When it comes to teaching forms and methods, we all understand that the student is supposed to be at the center of the process. That’s the theory. Practice sometimes differs. |
| Published on: 16.01.2002 |
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| Do school standards conform to real life? |
| In countries with a transitional economy, students have the best grasp of facts. They do less well in terms of putting those facts to use. They do worst of all when they are faced with unexpected situations. We know about this problem, and Latvia has developed a fundamentally new standard for basic education. |
| Published on: 16.01.2002 |
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| The Russians do not give up |
| We hope that the article in the education law which speaks to a move in general secondary education toward the Latvian language will be repealed. The bilingual education model which we have offered emphasizes other principles - ones which will preserve and develop the minority language. |
| Published on: 28.11.2001 |
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| In which language shall we live? |
| Bilingual education is currently being proposed only for Latvia’s minority schools, but in the near future there will also be schools where subjects are taught in Latvian and English, Latvian and French or Latvian and Swedish. The experience of other countries tells us that this is a good idea, but there has been a lack of readiness in Latvia so far to introduce it. |
| Published on: 21.11.2001 |
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| Interview with Stephen Heyneman |
| Shaping policy based on consensus is a very new skill but Latvia has no choice except to learn this skill. If you want a socially consolidated nation with an effective economy, then you will have to implement significant reforms to your educational system. |
| Published on: 24.10.2001 |
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| Should more money be invested in Latvia’s educational system? |
| If teachers in Estonia are paid more money and if several thousand children in Latvia do not go to school, that is not due to a lack of financing. We do not have lots more or lots less money than other countries with a similar economic level. Latvia’s problem is the ineffective use of resources that are available. |
| Published on: 24.10.2001 |
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