The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday August 31st, 2022 –
The International Day for People of African Descent will be celebrated for the first time on 31 August 2021. Through this Observance the United Nations aims to promote the extraordinary contributions of the African diaspora around the world and to eliminate all forms of discrimination against people of African descent.
The United Nations strongly condemns the continuing violent practices and excessive use of force by law enforcement agencies against Africans and people of African descent and condemns structural racism in criminal justice systems around the world. The Organization further acknowledges the Transatlantic Slave Trade as one of the darkest chapters in our human history and upholds human dignity and equality for the victims of slavery, the slave trade and colonialism, in particular people of African descent in the African diaspora.
Maria Montessori (1870-1952) by Rene Wadlow
31 August is the birth anniversary of Maria Montessori, an Italian childhood educator and world citizen. Her approaches to early childhood education are used both in Montessori schools and also more widely in other schools and home schooling.
Maria Montessori, inspired by the role of her mother was a life-long feminist breaking down barriers which tried to exclude women. She insisted to be allowed to enter medical school in Rome at a time when the school had only men as students, thus becoming one of the first Italian female M.D. in Italy in 1896. She became known for her work with illiterate children at her Casa dei Bambini, a school set up in 1907 in a building in the slums of Rome. There she developed her own principles of learning. Montessori had been strongly influenced by the tactile educational methods used for deaf-mutes and retarded children that had been created by two French physicials Jean Itard and his student Edward Seguin. She took special interest in the retarded and slow-learning children who were locked up in wards without toys or learning materials of any kind.
In her Casa dei Bambini, she developed a system to help children distinquish letters, geometric shapes and colors through the use of tactile materials. The children were allowed to move freely in the classroom and to progress at their own pace.
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A Sea Of Poetry #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“Saturday morning
Sunrise and I wake up
Opening my sleepy eyes
With the first line of a new poem
Floating in my head,
And I fumble for pen and paper
To capture the first line
Before it escapes.”
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Screws & Chips #40 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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