Getting to Know Your International Contacts- Part 1

     I chose to do the podcast assignment because I have not been able to reconnect with the one contact that I did make and I have not yet been able to find a second contact.  I listened to episode 10 this week with Susan Lyon.  Ms. Lyon is the founder of the Innovative Teacher Project that she founded in 1994 after being inspired by the Hundred Languages of Children Exhibit.  This exhibit is a traveling exhibit began by teaching methods in Reggio Emilia and was the cornerstone of Italian pedagogy for decades.  The schools use an in-depth approach to education.  The schools that participate consist of private and public schools, all of which take part in Roundtable discussions.

     I chose to read about India on the http://www.childhoodpoverty.org website.  It is shocking to read some of the statistics of the country who has the second largest population in the world.  The fact that India has twenty percent of its children not in school and the largest number of working children in the world is upsetting to say the least.

     Three insights that I gained from reading about India are:
*Education is needed to make a difference in the lives of people throughout the world; if these people had access to quality education, there standard of living would also improve.
*Countries that import goods from India should stop because many of the goods are being made by children who are malnourished and overworked for little to nothing.
*If countries can come up with funding and resources to fight wars over territory and material goods, those same countries should be able to fund a war against hunger and preventable diseases.