Re-Tooling School

How do we ReTool school to make it engaging, empowering and success making for all? At the same time how do we guarantee equity and access so that what our government calls “priority learners”, have the same opportunities for 3rd millennium citizenship as everybody else? When vast tracts of what is now the Developed World, were opened up by the provision of roads, bridges and railroads, people moved from subsistence and achieved effective citizenship, locally, nationally and globally. The infrastructure that enables access to the new platform for citizenship, the internet, is analogous to the roads, bridges and railroads of yesteryear. The business of retooling requires this infrastructure as a baseline, but real efficacy and agency will only be achieved when environments are enriched by innovation on top of the essential infrastructure. Retooling School requires a Change Pedagogy Imperative: When essential aspects of learning are amalgamated and new media are used for the reception and delivery modes, the learner experience is completely different. It is more than possible to develop new learner agency, efficacy and leadership in learning. This journey to genuine citizenship will have three major hallmarks: ubiquity anywhere, anytime, any pace, any people learning agency the power to act -informed/empowered/enabled learners connectedness edgeless education, connected minds We need to: Provide the essential infrastructure and enrich the environment for: local, national and international citizenship of all learners.

Diplomazia creativa al servizio di strategie di nicchia di una piccola potenza

In the year marking the centenary since the foundation of the Azerbaijani Diplomatic Service, Baku’s foreign policy is increasingly characterised by a broader understanding of diplomacy, shaped by the gradual yet steady expansion of both areas and the tools for intervention. Guided by the attempt to develop a ‘niche strategy’ aiming at safeguarding and promoting Azerbaijani national interest, the Humanitarian Diplomacy emerges as a privileged field for Baku to adopt a pro-active and creative foreign policy. Building upon the debate around the interests behind the aid-providing activities of traditional and emerging donors, the article aims at introducing the motivations and the aims behind Azerbaijani aid policy. In particular, it aims at demonstrating that Baku’s Humanitarian Diplomacy aims chiefly at achieving immaterial benefits, having to do with international prestige and with the construction and international projection of a Good International Citizenship.

Good International Citizenship and Cosmopolitan Responsibilities to Protect

This chapter examines a key question facing advocates of the cosmopolitan state: how can states best realize their cosmopolitan responsibilities to protect alongside their other responsibilities in cases where they conflict? It does so by focusing on a modest vision of cosmopolitan statehood—the notion of good international citizenship—and the idea that good international citizen states are faced with a continual need to ‘balance’ their potentially conflicting responsibilities. Drawing on the philosophy of value pluralism, the chapter interrogates this notion of ‘balance’ and makes two main claims. First, at times the plural responsibilities of good international citizenship can be successfully balanced through both contextual political decision and pragmatic action. Second, there are undoubtedly hard cases in which this balancing act is impossible, and good international citizens are faced with irresolvable dilemmas, in which ‘dirty hands’ are inevitable.