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Global
Village School Founder honored on International Peace Day
By evan austin. Ojai Peace Coalition, September
2009
Sally Carless, founder and Executive Director of Global Village School,
received the Ojai Peace Coalition’s Noble Peace Prize. Each
year, the Coalition honors a local individual who works for and exhibits
peace in their lives.
Homeschoolers
reflect on education, move on to college
By Dave Choate. Seacoastonline.com, June 2008
Maine area newspaper interviews a student about her Global Village
School experience.
Imagining
Educational Alternatives
By Leigh Melander. Imago: Wanderings from the
Imaginal Institute, September 2006
"Global Village, and other programs like it, offer families a
legitimate, creative way to define and imagine their education with
the student truly central in the equation, with structure and educational
professionals at their fingertips. While online learning may not be
for everyone, schools like these are a breath of hope: truly, no child
has to be left behind, drowning in a miasma of unrelenting, uninspired
and uninspiring tests."
Global
Village School: An Education in Peace and Justice
By Sally Carless. Paths of Learning, Winter
2003
The theme of this issue of Paths of Learning was “Does America
Really Love Its Children?” “How would the world be
different if a generation of our youth grew up confident in their
ability to make a difference, and skilled at discerning the truth
in their hearts?”
A
Vision of Social Responsibility: The Global Village School
By Tanya Barber. HopeDance, March/April 2003
“Students learn about cultures, histories, and social
climates in their Peace and Diversity coursework. For example, our
Peacemakers course presents role models who enact non-violent social
change and concrete examples of successful non-violent movements.
GVS scholars consider questions like: What enables peacemakers to
look at painful truths without giving in to a sense of hopelessness?
What sustained Martin Luther King? How did Mandela emerge after 27
years of imprisonment to speak of reconciliation rather than hate?“
Global
Village School: Lessons in Peace, Diversity, and Social Change
By Marsha K. Chandler. New Horizons for Learning,
June 2002
"Peace and understanding can only come about with personal responsibility
and awareness. Our society and many religions teach people to be followers.
But in order to build a world with responsible, aware citizens, we
must teach our children to think for themselves. And that is where
our education comes in. Global Village's courses provide students
with the missing links. Such as, how are human rights and the global
economy interrelated? How does it impact a child laborer in Asia when
I buy a pair of tennis shoes? What is the true cost of that tennis
shoe - not just in dollars, but human suffering? What is the true
cost of the electricity I use in my home, of the gas I burn in my
automobile?"
Articles by
Global Village School staff
Depleted
Uranium:America's Silent Weapon of Mass Destruction
By Sally Carless. Common Dreams, July 13,
2004
"American
troops are coming home poisoned -- not by Saddam -- but by their
own government's weapons of mass and indiscriminate destruction.
The first reports from soldiers returning from Iraq have come in,
and they are testing positive for depleted uranium (DU) in their
systems. And these are not just random soldiers many are police
officers and fire fighters from New York who serve in the NY Army
National Guard. These are the very symbols of what this war was
supposedly about."
Is
This What "Supporting Our Troops" Really Looks Like?
By Sally Carless. HopeDance, May/June 2004
"What does supporting the troops really mean? When the US government
attacked Iraq, many assumed that supporting the troops meant supporting
the war -- that to speak against the drive to war was to speak against
the troops risking their lives overseas. The notion that the American
government takes care of its soldiers’ health and needs is
a myth. They are exposed to severe health hazards without being
informed, they are poorly paid and equipped, they have been misled
about the reasons for going to war, and they often receive substandard
care when they return from their service."
Wisdom
and Action
By Sally Carless. HopeDance, Jan/Feb 2004
"How can we maintain our equilibrium in a world seemingly gone
mad? How do we resist giving in to despair, helplessness, and rage
in the face of disturbing statistics about nuclear waste or the
latest detailing of the imperial ambitions of our government? How
do we keep 'sustaining the gaze,' when it all seems too much for
one person to bear? How can we spare the time necessary for inner
growth when there is so much other work to be done? And how can
we afford not to?"
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