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There are still many disagreements about how to improve the education system so that children graduate with the skills and dispositions they will need to succeed in life. Education reform discussions often center on how to tweak existing mechanisms, but what if the system itself is creating the problems educators and policymakers are trying to solve? That’s the theory favored by author and TED-talk sensation Sir Ken Robinson.

Looking to get ahead in your career? Start by being nice to your coworkers, says leadership researcher Christine Porath. In this science-backed talk, she shares surprising insights about the costs of rudeness and shows how little acts of respect can boost your professional success -- and your company's bottom line.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Edgar Schein will tell you to look closely at values. Some are pivotal — they are essential to belonging to the group. Others are peripheral — you can compromise on those and still be a member. Those pivotal values are what anchor our people to their organizations. It’s imperative we understand the common values that link people and create active subcultures.

Knowing each of the subcultures for the groups within your organization can impact execution across your business, including how you hire, develop employees, collaborate, address quality, solve problems, deliver services and deploy projects.

Clearly, a one-size-fits-all culture strategy does not work. Again and again we see companies using just one lens to view a new initiative. And even if the change itself might work well for all subcultures, leadership often insists on using only one way to communicate and implement the initiative for everyone. No wonder we trip on unintended consequences.

"[Jews] will not go to Mile End on Christmas because [they] happened to feel like fried rice; they will go to proudly proclaim their Jewish-American identity. They may or may not enjoy General Tso’s Chicken, but if they are eating it on Christmas, their prime motivation is not the general’s sweet, spicy deliciousness, but rather the knowledge that they are doing something that in some adapted way reinforces their Jewishness."

Tags: Judaism, culture, cultural norms, food, seasonal.

"For centuries in early and middle antiquity, Europe meant the world surrounding the Mediterranean. It included North Africa, but the swift advance of Islam across North Africa in the seventh and eighth centuries virtually extinguished Christianity there, thus severing the Mediterranean region into two civilizational halves, with the 'Middle Sea' a hard border between them rather than a unifying force. Islam is now helping to undo what it once helped to create. A classical geography is organically reasserting itself, as the forces of terrorism and human migration reunite the Mediterranean Basin, including North Africa and the Levant, with Europe." 

Si l'entrepreneur culturel a de tout temps existé, la force des temps présents est de créer des opportunités nouvelles: le numérique autorise, par exemple, la production de peu d'exemplaires d'un livre et en permet l'éventuelle rentabilité.

Elle use et abuse de Stories pour vulgariser des « morceaux » d’Histoire de l’art. Drôle, intelligente, actuelle, La Minute Culture de Camille Jouneaux fait un carton sur Instagram. Un succès dont les musées tentent de s’inspirer, à l’heure où la « culture snack » séduit les jeunes publics.

This is the story of a man who makes sling shots and shoots them like an expert marksman.

Currently, dramatic changes take place in terms of rapidly emerging modes of communication, technologies, increased cultural diversity, evolving workplaces cultures, new challenges for equitable education and the varying and changing identities of students everywhere. Bearing this in mind, this article draws on a design-based research study to argue of the need for museums to respond to global trends and fulfill their social and educational imperatives by investigating the potential of a particular pedagogical framework that is grounded in culturally inclusive pedagogical practices and characteristics of ubiquitous learning.

Le bras droit d’Olivier Py au Festival d’Avignon s’inquiète de la récente montée en puissance du privé dans le spectacle vivant.

Une opération de " crowdfunding " lancée par les Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique pour restaurer une toile de Gauguin donne une autre perspective à l'économie participative. Mode, tendance ou solution ponctuelle ?

Les revenus des auteurs sont en baisse constante. En France, seuls quarante écrivains vivraient de leurs ouvrages.