Hello Interwebbers! Every teacher all over the world, whether they know it or not, strives to be a lifelong learner. However, when I think about it, from the moment we are born to the moment of our death we are all learning many things at once, whether we know it…

Hello Interwebbers! Welcome to the reflective blog post about our trip! We set out on this journey to learn about Peru’s educational system and its political, cultural, and social processes and compare it to those processes from the US educational system. We dove head-first into our exploration the friday after…

Hello Interwebbers! We are in Cuzco as we speak, and I am writing this blog post after a long discussion with my peers. The word ‘indigeneity’ came up quite a lot. It is a difficult word to say seeing as we do not use this word in our common conversation…

Hello Interwebbers! If we address education only in terms of the logistics and the pure subject matter of academics, cutting out the social and cultural aspects of what we learn over the course of our education and our lifetimes, we would not be philosophizing about education. This is merely the…

Hello Interwebbers! Who is the teacher? That is a very big question that puzzles all who try to answer this question. This question has us thinking, initially, about the men and/or women who have instructed us on all the foundational subjects that we needed to understand in order to grow…

Hello Interwebbers! One thing that I have learned and witnessed over the course of my stay here in Peru, is that there is an unequal society, where the wealthy have more money than the poor combined and the poor have to struggle greatly to make ends meet. There are people…

Hey Interwebbers! The seven of us, after travelling to Peru, have experienced a series of educational contexts. In La Inmaculada, the logistical aspects of the school differs from other schools that I have volunteered in. The students switch classrooms from the primary grades onwards, whereas students in primary grades only switch…

Hey Interwebbers! The conversation about educational and social change has been a long-lasting and seemingly never-ending conversation littered with contradictions and different arguments and opinions. We all have our different ideas and beliefs as to how we can make education as equitable and as engaging/relatable for everyone. …

Hello Interwebbers! Travelling to different communities where they have different schooling systems, I have understood how, despite the differences, the overall goal for teaching is still the same: To teach the students to become better citizens. However, based on the articles that we have read so far, there are differences…