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The International Foundation for the Advancement of Reflective Learning and Teaching (ARLT) promotes reflective education to facilitate human rights for a more caring & empathetic world which allows for respect and diversity and the humanity within all peoples.

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Past student contributes with humanitarian work in Dhaka

Past student contribution to humanitarian work

Half the world's undernourished people live in the Asia-Pacific region

The Sustainable Development Goal warns of "colossal human loss to Asia and the Pacific, and its economies.

Why social science is essential?

Many governments focus on STEM subjects as being the means of having a worthwhile economy in the future but this is a shot sighted view

Film: A case of Literary Sociology

Film follows 3 women who moved to LA to pursue their dreams, it celebrates how the art we make and consume can shape our stories.

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Reflective Thinking

Reflective Thinking

Reflective Thinking

The Golden Key (1867) Author: George MacDonald

George MacDonald’s "The Golden Key" blends fantasy with profound moral and theological questions.

Humanitarianism

Humanitarianism

Humanitarianism

Syria: the challenges of parenting in refugee situations of immediate displacement

The way parents care for their children during displacement plays a key role in children's emotional and behavioural outcomes

Why social science is essential?

Many governments focus on STEM subjects as being the means of having a worthwhile economy in the future but this is a shot sighted view

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Reflective Thinking

Reflective Thinking

November 5, 2018

Reflective Thinking

The Golden Key (1867) Author: George MacDonald

George MacDonald’s "The Golden Key" blends fantasy with profound moral and theological questions.

November 5, 2018

Adolescent mental health in the European Region

In the WHO European Region, there is a high and increasing rate of mental and behavioural health problems in adolescents at population level

November 5, 2018

How Kindness Fits Into a Happy Life

Understanding the connection between kindness and well being

November 5, 2018

Film: A case of Literary Sociology

Film follows 3 women who moved to LA to pursue their dreams, it celebrates how the art we make and consume can shape our stories.

November 5, 2018

Words matter: a call for humanising and respectful language to describe people who experience incarceration

Words matter when describing people involved in the criminal justice system because language can have a significant impact upon health.

Cultural Understanding

Cultural Understanding

November 5, 2018

Cultural Understanding

ARLT Foundation and Feel at Home in The Hague exhibition

The Feel at Home International Community Fair is a celebration of the cosmopolitan community of The Hague.

Child Development

Child Development

November 5, 2018

Child Development

Kafka and the Doll Traveller

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.’

November 5, 2018

Why social science is essential?

Many governments focus on STEM subjects as being the means of having a worthwhile economy in the future but this is a shot sighted view

November 5, 2018

ARV drugs can control HIV infections and help prevent transmission

The United Nations in Zimbabwe is reaffirming that people living with HIV and AIDS need to continue with antiretroviral (ARV) therapy

November 5, 2018

Death penalty concerns highlighted in Sudan, Belarus, by UN Human Rights Committee

Countries should heed the "clear pro-abolitionist spirit towards the death penalty of one of the world's most important treaties

November 5, 2018

Emotional Labour- presentation of self

The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. Emotional labor is the management of emotion that is performed for a wage

November 5, 2018

Half the world's undernourished people live in the Asia-Pacific region

The Sustainable Development Goal warns of "colossal human loss to Asia and the Pacific, and its economies.

November 5, 2018

International Day of Older Persons; October 1st.2018

Almost 700 million people are now over the age of 60. By 2050, 2 billion people, over 20 per cent of the world's population, will be over 60

Cultural Understanding

Cultural Understanding

November 5, 2018

Cultural Understanding

The Elders in Zimbabwe

Mary Robinson and Kofi Annan attend Citizens Manifesto event in Zimbabwe in July 2018. (Credit: The Elders)

November 5, 2018

The origin of Love; Aristophanes

Love is the name that we give to our desire for wholeness, to be restored to our original nature.

Humanitarianism

Humanitarianism

November 5, 2018

Humanitarianism

Syria: the challenges of parenting in refugee situations of immediate displacement

The way parents care for their children during displacement plays a key role in children's emotional and behavioural outcomes

November 5, 2018

Protecting the right to education for refugees

As highlighted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the education of refugees is today in crisis.

November 5, 2018

World Music Day- Mid-summer Solstice

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, and life to everything. Without music life would be an error (Plato)

November 5, 2018

Taking women, peace and security to the next level in Africa

African advocates, pioneers, and thought leaders of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda, together with the Norwegian Foreign Minister...

November 5, 2018

Masculinities, violence against women, and women's participation in peace and justice

We cannot abandon the spaces that women have fought to gain

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