Historical perspectives and contemporary challenges to education (Bildung) and citizenry in the modern nation state: Comparative perspectives on Germany and the USA

Cortez Deacetis

This article explores historical and contemporary relations among education or Bildung, nation building processes, and aspects of citizenship education and identity building, comparing and contrasting how ideas and concepts of public education are framing these notions in the United States (US) and Germany. Public education remains the primary model for […]

Rewriting history: New evidence challenges Euro-centric narrative of early colonization

Cortez Deacetis

Impression: Jacob Lulewicz, lecturer in archaeology at Washington Universiity in St. Louis, scientific studies southeastern/midwestern ethnohistory and archaeology together with Indigenous-colonizer dynamics social networks and sociopolitics check out more  Credit: WUSTL In American history, we discover that the arrival of Spanish explorers led by Hernando de Soto in the 1500s was […]

Lack of internet access in Southeast Asia poses challenges for students to study online amid COVID-19 pandemic

Cortez Deacetis

Only a few countries in Southeast Asia have around eighty{0841e0d75c8d746db04d650b1305ad3fcafc778b501ea82c6d7687ee4903b11a} World wide web penetration. Credit: www.shutterstock.com Governments and companies throughout the entire world have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with cancellations of public functions and closures of workplaces, dining places, museums, colleges and universities to avoid masses from gathering as […]