Karen Carpenter (1950-1983)
Rainy Days and Mondays
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώναΑσύγχρονη επιμόρφωση μέσω ανοιχτών διαδικτυακών μαθημάτων
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώνα• Ευαισθητοποίηση μαθητών και ενηλίκων
σε θέματα αποδοχής της αναπηρίας και της διαφορετικότητας
και ανάπτυξη ενταξιακής κουλτούρας στο σχολείο
• Εκπαίδευση μαθητών με Διαταραχή Αυτιστικού Φάσματος:
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Καλές πρακτικές για τη σχολική τους ένταξη
Πρόληψη της παιδικής σεξουαλικής κακοποίησης
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώναDoing the Right Thing with the Parthenon Marbles
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώναBY VICTORIA HISLOP
| AUG 08, 2022
The UK newspapers have all been buzzing this week with the suggestion that the British Museum may be ready to discuss the return of the Parthenon Sculptures with Greece. This all arose after the new chairman of the BM Trustees, George Osborne, said that there is a “deal to be done” over sharing these ancient treasures with the country of their origin. This comment was followed by an interview for the Sunday Times with the deputy director of the museum, who said that they are interested in an active Parthenon partnership with Greece and a “really dynamic and positive conversation within which new ways of working together can be found.” But what this actually means is very open to interpretation and time will tell if words become action.
Nowadays we question all of that. Many in Britain are reconsidering the actions that were taken in the past by the British. We can’t undo most of them (slavery being the most enormous and terrible example) but already we are apologizing for some of the many mistakes made by our ancestors. Even the gesture of doing this is important.
Going back to the Sculptures specifically, this was a case for me of questioning all the facts and circumstances surrounding how they ended up in a gloomy, badly lit gallery in the British Museum, thousands of miles from the translucent Hellenic light where they were created.
I read everything I could find (including Christopher Hitchens and Geoffrey Robertson) and went from darkness into light, realizing that much of the Elgin story that many in the UK believe is entirely untrue. He was given permission in the form of a letter (not an officially stamped Firman from the sultan as so many think) to take impressions and drawings of the sculptures so that they could be reproduced to decorate his new house. He was not given permission to violently hack and saw them off the building, a task which took 300 men an entire year to achieve and required massive bribes to local guards. Elgin’s desire to have these originals for his private house was only thwarted when he finally returned home and found himself with massive debts. The British Museum paid him £35,000 (less than half his expenses for removal and transport) to help resolve his money problems and pay divorce expenses. The one unquestionable thing in this long debate is that the British government did hand over money for these priceless objects. But not to their rightful owners.
Many years after acquisition, Henry Duveen (another figure with his own shadowy story) gave money for the gallery where they now live and instructed them to be scrubbed with wire wool to make them whiter, an act which by anyone’s standards is seen as an act of destruction not conservation today.
There is not enough space to express all my emotions on the subject of the mistreatment of these beautiful objects but, needless to say, a small amount of reading was enough to shift my opinion completely and Boris Johnson’s interview last year for a Greek newspaper in which he implied that the Sculptures would never go back to Athens spurred me to join the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles, a group which passionately and continuously lobbies for their aim. I am now one of at least 59% of the British population who believe that the Sculptures should be returned to Athens.
Δημιουργία εκπαιδευτικού επιτραπέζιου παιχνιδιού
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώναMacArthur Park (originally Westlake Park) is a park dating back to the late 19th century in the Westlake neighbourhood of Los Angeles. In the early 1940s, it was renamed after General Douglas MacArthur.
The song was written by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb—when he was 21 years old!—and first recorded by Irish actor and singer Richard Harris in late 1967.
Richard Harris insisted on singing the lyric as “MacArthur‘s Park.”
Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead as we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love’s hot, fevered iron like a striped pair of pants
MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don’t think that I can take it
‘Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again
Oh no!
I recall the yellow cotton dress foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees
MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don’t think that I can take it
‘Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again
Oh no!
There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You’ll still be the one
I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
And after all the loves of my life
Oh, after all the loves of my life
I’ll be thinking of you
And wondering why…
MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don’t think that I can take it
‘Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again
Oh no!
Oh no
No
Oh no!
Midnight Train to Georgia
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώναIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώναOfficial trailer starring Harrison Ford
Επαγγελματική εξουθένωση
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώναeTwinning Projects and TwinSpace
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώναΗ κάρτα που έφτιαξα για το μαθητή μου Δημήτρη Τ. της Ε’ τάξης.
— Πολύ λυπήθηκα όταν έμαθα για το ατύχημά σου, Δημήτρη!
Μείνε δυνατός. Μην πιέσεις τον εαυτό σου υπερβολικά. Πάρε το χρόνο που χρειάζεσαι για να αναρρώσεις και θα μπορέσεις πάλι να πας για τρέξιμο.
(Η ΤΑΧΥΤΗΤΑ ΕΛΕΓΧΕΤΑΙ ΑΠΟ ΡΑΝΤΑΡ.)
Ο δάσκαλός σου
34ο Δημοτικό Σχολείο Αθηνών
Anna and Markus, Berlin
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώναIt is morning in a flat located in an old, still unrenovated turn-of-the-century house in the popular Berlin district of Kreuzberg. Anna, a woman in her 20s, is sitting at the dining table in her pyjamas, with an old laptop computer, a bowl of muesli and a cup of coffee. As her husband Markus comes in, Anna hastily puts down the lid of her laptop so as to hide what she has been doing. Markus—a former rock singer and now a construction worker—kisses her goodbye and sets off to work. She has got enough time now to go ahead with her secret plan. Anna starts cleaning up the side room that is full of cardboard boxes, drums and guitars.
What is she up to?
















































































