Learning, at Home and Around the World

At last, after a month of exciting classes and passionate writing, it is time to start sharing our Ghana student life story projects with you! For teachers who are interested …

There is a difference between the American “Tortoise and the Hare” story and the African moral of tortoise and hare! Learn the cultural inspiration from Ghana.

I looked at the list of words on the green chalkboard. For the past ten minutes, the sweet Ghanaian pupils of this Volta Region school had been raising their hands …

YCC’s Director, John, has given me some serious homework. The task: to read African Cultural Values, by Kwame Gyekye, and then to devour the very hefty A History of Indigenous …

“We don’t mean it to be rude at all,” explained YCC teacher Derrick, smiling his luminous smile, “it’s just, you know, it’s unusual to see a pale person, and so …

Once again today, I was deeply, deeply inspired, as an American educator, by the work of Youth Creating Change, Ghana. Every Saturday, YCC‘s Director John Glidden gathers under the dappled …

“How many of you were beaten with canes by your teachers TODAY?” I asked the YCC students as a logical follow-up to our class discussion on corporal punishment in Ghana. …

It is true: seeing remnants of the brutal trans-Atlantic slave trade is an utterly different experience in Africa than in America. Throughout our lives as Americans, we study slavery and …

It is a scientific fact: when students take a leadership role in their own education rather than blindly swallowing a teacher’s “answers”, these students develop ownership, pride, and confidence in …

Seth (pictured below the white shirt) told us a funny true story tonight which makes a lovely joke… Noble YCC Treasurer, Seth, was sleeping peacefully in the guesthouse, when a …