The 2023 Gwangju Fringe Festival
By Olivia Laurel With the slogan “Dreamlike Breaking Away,” the 2023 Gwangju Fringe Festival focuses on recovery and reconciliation as the world is back in full force from the pandemic. … Read More
Author: Gwangju News
The Sweetness of Water By Nathan Harris
The setting is rural Georgia, USA, shortly after the end of the American Civil War in 1865. It is supposed to be a time of reconstruction, but military victory and defeat, great loss of life, and wounds of war have not established a new and better way of life. Old manners of thinking have deep roots.
The Connection Between “Cosmic Education” and the Imagination
If you have observed a Montessori classroom before, you will know that students are working a lot with the scientific subject. Science is the most valuable and practical subject to enhance students’ imagination, and they enjoy it very well. Children take a deep interest in dinosaurs and space very naturally, and during that moment, their imaginations develop explosively. Dr. Maria Montessori recognized that all of science and history tell portions of the same story: the continuing creation of the universe. This “Cosmic Education” tells that story. In a uniquely Montessorian way, the experience offers children a context for, and reveals connections between, such subjects as astronomy, chemistry, geography, history, and biology, to name a few. “Learning” the academic subject matter, however, is secondary to a loftier educational goal.
Culture Exchange: Teaching Culture Classes at Unri Middle School
It is said that summer vacation is one of the best times during one’s university life. Some went on holiday, others took extra classes to earn more credits, and as for me, one of my activities during this two-month school break was teaching culture classes. It is a one-day freelance job introducing things like Malaysian culture and food to Korean middle school students. Using the class as a platform, I got the opportunity to meet with respectable foreign teachers from Japan, Australia, Syria, and many other countries. All of them had resided in Gwangju for multiple years and, throughout our classes, they shared lots of insights about the city.
Concepts of Time and Friendship
From the moment my plane landed at Incheon International Airport in snowy January, I knew the clock started ticking.
Chance Encounter: A Jeju Romance
Chance Encounter: A Jeju Romance
Kota Kinabalu: I Flew to Borneo Last July and Boy Are My Arms Tired Kota Kinabalu
As a young man in Canada, nothing was more riveting, nothing was more important than the first season of the TV show Survivor. It was a cultural phenomenon, uniting people around the globe in their desire to see who would emerge victorious after the final tribal council. One of the fondest memories of my youth was huddling around the television with about ten other people one summer evening to watch Richard Hatch claim the million-dollar grand prize.