Tag Archives: education
How to explain a political process with a video?
The brilliant people at Common Craft just released a great video that explains the US elections in ‘plain English’! If you don’t know their other videos (mostly about internet issues) you really missed something and I strongly recommend them to you. Basically they “make complex ideas easy to understand using short and simple videos.”(mission statement!) [...]
Posted in European Debate Also tagged elections, EP elections, EU, European Union, online video, politics, US elections, video 4 Comments
Petition to support the European University St Petersburg
The European University at St Petersburg (EUSP) has been forced to stop operating because of some fire safety violations…. Of course this seems to be a politically motivated move of the Russian authorities especially since the University has close connections to the USA and EU. Moreover, the university runs a programme funded by the European [...]
Posted in International Politics Also tagged academia, elections, Kremlin, politcs, Putin, Russia, University Leave a comment
Rewriting history
What is happening at the moment? History (or better the interpretation of history) is more and more used to justify political actions. Nothing really new, but somehow two recent statements were not only shocking but also worrying: First, the Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski used weird historic justifications for his negotiations at the EU summit [...]
Posted in Eastern Europe, Humanities & Social Sciences Also tagged EU, Europe, History, Kaczynski, poland, Russia, Russian Politics 6 Comments
Generation Web 0.0
Slightly off-topic and unfortunately only in German. Here is a very interesting article on the attitudes of the German elite regarding Internet, new technologies and web 2.0. One example is the German Minster for Economics and Technology (!) Michael Glos who is not too keen about the fuzz on lifelong learning: Using a mobile phone [...]
Another common history book?
History has always been (mis-) used in political debates. Basically, every social group constructs a set of historical ‘facts’ which then are used to justify any kind of ‘political action’. The constant repetition of these ‘facts’ create history. Usually different “versions” of history exist and most of the times these versions seem incompatible even though [...]
Posted in Eastern Europe, European Debate, Humanities & Social Sciences Also tagged Europa, Europe, History, nationalism 1 Comment
The Disadvantages of an Elite Education