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Iveta Silova

@isilova.bsky.social
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Scholar of education and planetary futures 🌍 | Exploring the intersections of post-socialist, post-colonial, and decolonial thought | Looking for portals 🌿 | Professor at ASU | @isilova.bsky.social

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/06/2026
Half of world’s children exposed to at least three climate hazards, Unicef says
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Half of world’s children exposed to at least three climate hazards, Unicef says
Almost every child, including those from high-income countries, is now exposed to at least one hazard Half of the world’s children are exposed to at least three overlapping climate hazards threatening their health, education and survival, according to a Unicef report. Globally, children face increasing threats from heatwaves, storms, floods and droughts as the climate crisis worsens, with more than one billion facing at least three of these at once. Continue reading...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
“Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach the Earth, but none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz,” says @billmckibben.bsky.social. “That makes it a very appealing alternative, especially now that it’s cheaper than burning coal and gas and oil.”
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Call for Chapter Proposals (World Yearbook of Education)! Education and Planetary Crises: Comparative Perspectives on Policy and Possibility open.substack.com/pub/edforpla...
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Education and Planetary Crises: Comparative Perspectives on Policy and Possibility
Call for chapters proposals for Routledge World Yearbook of Education (volume 29) edited by Marcia McKenzie and Iveta Silova
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Nature @nature.com · 26/04/2026
All 22 members of the board that advises and oversees the US National Science Foundation (NSF), a leading funder of basic science, were fired on 24 April without explanation. go.nature.com/42tkCGv
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Entire NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administration
Members of the National Science Board, which the US Congress founded in 1950, were given no explanation for their termination.
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Searching for Gummi Bears ✍️ Nadine Bernhard Gummi bears — not quite the same, not always available. Before and after 1989. Memory sits in small details. 📖 (open access): www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #Anarchive #PostSocialism #Memory @microbial-child.bsky.social
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
If Everyone Learns with Their Own AI, What Do We Still Share? open.substack.com/pub/edforpla...
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If Everyone Learns with Their Own AI, What Do We Still Share?
Shifting common ground in a time of planetary crises
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
If Everyone Learns with Their Own AI, What Do We Still Share? open.substack.com/pub/edforpla...
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If Everyone Learns with Their Own AI, What Do We Still Share?
This is the first in a short series exploring how AI is reshaping education — and what that might mean for how we learn, think, and live together in the age of planetary crises.
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Higher Education at a Planetary Crossroads - Reflections on UNESCO's new report, Transforming Higher Education: Global Collaboration on Visioning and Action open.substack.com/pub/edforpla... @unesco.bsky.social @noahsobe.bsky.social @drmoirafaul.bsky.social #HigherEducation #GlobalFutures
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Higher Education at a Planetary Crossroads
What UNESCO’s new roadmap reveals — and what it demands
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Growing up in Cold-War Argentina ✍️ Inés Dussel What does a child learn when politics enters the home? From the (An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, & the Cold War (open access): books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp... @openbookpublish.bsky.social @microbial-child.bsky.social
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Education and Planetary Crises: Comparative Perspectives on Policy and Possibility open.substack.com/pub/edforpla...
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Education and Planetary Crises: Comparative Perspectives on Policy and Possibility
Call for chapters proposals for Routledge World Yearbook of Education (volume 29) edited by Marcia McKenzie and Iveta Silova
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Excited to join the #SouthernAnthropocenes launch (Mar 12, 16:00 Canberra / 06:00 Paris). I’ll speak on “Decolonial Portals as Pedagogical Practice” (with @Bea Rodriguez-Fransen & @VictoriaDesimoni). In conversation with editor @cbruunjensen.bsky.social and Juan Francisco Salazar. Join us on Zoom 🌍📚
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
🧶 #MemoryMondays | The Door ✍️ Khanum Gevorgyan She counted down to zero. At zero, the door would open. Her father home from Russia— a taped duffel bag, Russian chocolates, relief. A childhood shaped by migration, war, and waiting. 🔗 doi.org/10.11647/OBP... #Anarchive #PostSocialism #Memory
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Education and Planetary Crises: Comparative Perspectives on Policy and Possibility open.substack.com/pub/edforpla...
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Education and Planetary Crises: Comparative Perspectives on Policy and Possibility
Call for chapters proposals for Routledge World Yearbook of Education (volume 29) edited by Marcia McKenzie and Iveta Silova
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Why Re-imagining Education Matters — And Why You Should Join open.substack.com/pub/edforpla...
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Why Re-imagining Education Matters — And Why You Should Join
What if education wasn’t just about compliance, testing, and narrow outcomes — but about life, relationships, earth wisdom, play, and collective transformation?
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
🧶 #MemoryMondays | The Power of Other Worlds ✍️ Jennifer Patico What did “the West” feel like at ten? Shiny catalogues. Colourful photos. Forbidden makeup. Cold War hierarchies lived through desire, shame & growing up. 🔗 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #(An)archive #Memory #Childhood
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
What if academic life is carbon-coded? Mobility. Speed. Output. AI. Prestige. Growth. We question the fossil-fueled assumptions organizing scholarship itself. open.substack.com/pub/edforpla... @carkar.bsky.social
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What If the Climate Crisis Is Already Built into Academic Life?
Across universities worldwide, an expanding constellation of scholars, centers, laboratories, and initiatives is emerging to study planetary crisis, social transformation, and the limits of modern way...
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Sleepy Smuggles ✍️ Sarah Fichtner She wasn’t asleep. She just knew not to open her eyes. A child, a border, a hidden magazine. 🔗 books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp... #Anarchive #ColdWarMemories #Memory @OpenBookPublishers #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 02/02/2026
Bad Bunny condemns ICE during his #GRAMMYs speech for Best Música Urbana Album: “Before I say thanks to god, I’m going to say, ICE out. We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we are humans and we are Americans.”
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 02/02/2026
Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year: “As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Smuggling Jewelry ✍️ Tatyana Kleyn A child leaves Soviet Riga with a red sweater, a teddy bear— and an amber necklace hidden inside. As immigration crackdowns intensify worldwide, this memory reminds that children still carry what adults cannot. 📽️ hdl.handle.net/20.500.12434...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 26/01/2026
Damn proud of Minnesota.
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🧶 #MemoryMondays | You Can’t Go Home Again ✍️ Madina Tlostanova A Soviet childhood of exile, escape, and quiet revolt. Remembering as refusal - and return. 🔗 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #Anarchive #PostSocialism #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social @OpenBookPublishers
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/01/2026
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The Trump administration is excusing murder by ICE using the same lies as those told by Maduro’s regime. These lies are part of the logic of death squads. Govt controls the story & the next murder is easier. And suddenly this is normal and people simply disappear. snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-...
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Maduro in Minneapolis
Murderous Lies
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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Bree Fram @breefram.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Today the Pentagon censured Senator Mark Kelly and moved to strip part of his earned military retirement benefits for stating the truth. This administration is trying to convince Americans that truth is whatever it says it is—even when the evidence is plainly in front of us.
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Smearing the Portrait ✍️ Lucian Țion A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall. books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp... #Anarchive #memory @microbial-child.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Chapter 4: The Other Side of the Curtain? ✍️ Erica Burman What does the Cold War look like from the “safe” side? Burman revisits a childhood in northern England—activism, media, memory, and forgetting. 🔗 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #Anarchive #Memory
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory: “Breakfast Across Borders” ✍️ By Stefanie Weiss Santos What does a morning meal carry across borders — beyond food, beyond routine, beyond geography? @microbial-child.bsky.social #Memory @CollectiveBiography #Childhood
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory Highlight “Rua Liga Dos Comunistas” ✍️ By José Cossa What does the Cold War feel like in Maputo? A childhood fragment. A street. A world in motion. @microbial-child.bsky.social #Anarchive #Memory #CollectiveBiography @gesigcies.bsky.social
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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
11. For a World where Mutual Worlds Fit: Political Ontology in the Anthropocene Alyne Costa Part 4. Speculations Introduction Didier Debaise 12. Decolonial Portals as Pedagogical Practice Bea C. Rodriquez-Fransen, Victoria Desimoni and Iveta Silova
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Chapter 2: ‘I Wanted to See the Man with That Mark on His Forehead’ ✍️ By Pia Koivunen What happens when a historian turns the lens inward—when memory becomes both the object and the method? Read (open access): www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #anarchive #memory
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Climate education is going digital — but not always in the ways we imagine. Read our preliminary findings from mapping #ClimateEducation digital resources👇https://open.substack.com/pub/edforplanetaryfutures/p/mapping-climate-educations-digital?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Mapping Climate Education’s Digital Landscape: What We Learned from Educators and Youth (Preliminary Findings)
“Most of my education about climate has been online.”
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory: (Re)membering in Jeong By Olga Mun What does it mean to remember across displacement, across borders within borders? A reflection through Korean philosophy of kindness, relationality, and more-than-human. Read more 👇 doi.org/10.11647/obp... @microbial-child.bsky.social
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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 30/11/2025
Arizona State University and Trump
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Arizona State University and Trump
On November 26, Arizona State University featured in a Wall Street Journal article written by Elizabeth Collins, one of their national political reporters based in Phoenix, and Douglas Belkin, a Jo…
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Chapter 1: Who Do I Remember For? Memory as Genre and Dark Pleasures of Trauma Witnessing ✍️ By Petar Odak What shapes our memories—before they are even ours to tell? Read more 👇 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #ColdWar #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social
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Globalization & Education SIG of CIES @gesigcies.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
The SIG is currently looking for reviewers!! Please fill out the form below to participate as an evaluator in the Book & Dissertation Awards process: wordpress.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?... Thank you in advance for your help with the reviews and looking forward to working with you!
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Book & Dissertation Awards Reviewer Application Form
Thank you for your interest in participating as an evaluator in the “CIES SIG Book & Dissertation Awards” . Evaluators play a vital role in recognizing outstanding scholarly contributions. Please com...
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🔥 Every crisis has its curriculum—and young people are refusing this one. What if the climate crisis is also an education crisis—and the lesson is to unlearn? #EducationFutures #Youth @norrag.bsky.social @arizonastateuni.bsky.social @carkar.bsky.social www.norrageducation.org/when-educati...
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When Education Is the Problem: Lessons from Youth Climate Activism - NORRAG -
In this blogpost, which is part of NORRAG’s blog series “Provocations for education from youth climate activism,” Iveta Silova, Jeremy Rappleye and Hikaru Komatsu argue that the crisis we face is educ...
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Introduction: The (An)archive What if the stories that shape us were never meant to be archived? What if memory could unwrite borders, reorder time, and restore what was erased? (An)archive begins here—with fragments, refusals & futures that never arrived. doi.org/10.11647/obp...
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 11/11/2025
Tracking Key Lawsuits Against the Trump Administration Higher education groups are suing the federal government at an exceptional scale to block executive orders, DEI guidance and other policy changes. Here’s the latest on the legal challenges. bit.ly/46VfIDV #AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd
A collage of Trump, a building, and the scales of justice.
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS begins. What do we carry from childhood? What have we learned to forget? Starting next week, I’ll share weekly glimpses from the book "(An)archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War" 📘 Read free: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #MemoryMondays #ColdWar #Memory
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The West’s aid model was always a mirage. It’s time for a realistic alternative. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/08/a...
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The End of Development
The West’s aid model was always a mirage. It’s time for a realistic alternative.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 30/10/2025
“Trump’s compact is the greatest single incursion into the freedom & autonomy of higher education to ever happen in this country.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #DefendHigherEd
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‘Students Are Terrified’: How Trump’s Higher Education Compact Puts Queer Students at Risk
The heavy-handed document promises federal funding in exchange for ideological compliance. So far, it's unpopular.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/10/2025
Wives, mothers, fighters, activists: the millennial women keeping Ukraine going
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Wives, mothers, fighters, activists: the millennial women keeping Ukraine going
Born into an independent Ukraine, the lives of these young women changed for ever when Russia invaded their country, forcing them to shoulder huge burdens of responsibility
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The federal government is trying to extort universities through the so-called "Compact”. This is a time for courage, not capitulation. Sign this alumni petition now to tell your school to reject the "Compact" and stand up for campus freedom. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/si...
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SIGN THE ALUMNI PETITION: Tell your school to reject the federal government’s “Compact”
The federal government is trying to extort your school by coercing American universities into joining its so-called "Compact”. This is a time for courage, not capitulation. Sign this alumni petition n...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 21/10/2025
TONIGHT AT 7:30PM ET / 4:30 PM PT! Join AAUP President Todd Wolfson & AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal for an update on universities MASS REFUSAL of Trump’s loyalty oath compact & how it violates the US Constitution. Live on both IG & YouTube Link: www.youtube.com/live/h-H-ETa...
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David Loy @davidloy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“What made Hitler’s orders stick, Silova argued, ‘was the eagerness of many academic leaders to comply, justify and normalize the new order … Within a few years, German universities no longer served knowledge — they served power.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Insatiable
The president is trying to pick off institutions (and people) one by one.
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Íris Santos @santosiris.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I am happy to share that a new open-access article by my colleague Iveta Silova (@isilova.bsky.social) and I is now published. The article, titled "From Finland to the world: interrogating the global learning crisis" can be found here: tinyurl.com/yc6b9ps3
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From Finland to the world: interrogating the global learning crisis
The ‘learning crisis’, often framed as an urgent challenge of educational access and quality, masks deeper structural and geopolitical inequities. This article critically examines the narrative of ...
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