Borderline: Frontiers of Peace

From Portugal to Bulgaria, from Finland to Greece, photographer Valerio Vincenzo zigzagged along the length of nearly 20,000 kilometers of borders between the countries that are part of the European Union and/or the Schengen Area. Considering Europe’s history over the 19th and 20th centuries, full of scars, walls and trenches, these images document a silent revolution. Barely sixty years ago, the Schengen Area was merely a utopian notion. This photographic work shows a utopia that has become reality. Europe received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012 for such an achievement. The Nobel Committee stated, ‘The union and its forerunners have for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.’ Today, the final words of this statement are being called into question, as indeed are the construction of Europe and the Schengen Area, too. Is Europe caught in a dilemma between its values and the pragmatic difficulty of enforcing them? Will the images included in this project end up relegated to history books, witnesses to a bygone age? Borderline, Frontiers of Peace was awarded the 2013 Louise Weiss Prize for European Journalism, the first time that such an award has been granted to a photo project. The project has been exhibited numerous times, notably at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris in 2015, St. Petersburg (Russia) in 2016, Brest and Orléans (France), Zagreb and Vukovar (Croatia) in 2017, Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina) and the fortress of Salses (France) in 2018, Amiens (France), Berlin and Bamberg (Germany) in 2019, Tallinn (Estonia) and Lübeck (Germany) in 2020, and Strasbourg (France) and Cuneo (Italy) in 2021. Valerio Vincenzo is currently extending his project to the now peaceful borders of the Balkans.

Correction to: A “Silent Revolution”: school reforms and Italy’s educational gender gap in the Liberal Age (1861–1921)

A correction to this paper to make it open access has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-021-00227-4

PADLET SEBAGAI PLATFORM PEMBELAJARAN DARING PADA MASA PANDEMI (SEBUAH PANDUAN SEDERHANA)

Pandemi covid 19 telah memaksa pendidik dan peserta didik untuk melakukan transformasi pembelajaran dari pembelajaran tatap muka/luar jaringan kepada pembelajaran tatap maya/dalam jaringan. Dirjen GTK Kemdikbud RI. Iwan Syahril dalam paparannya saat menjadi Narasumber dalam Webinar Guru Abad 21 mengatakan “…pandemi telah memaksa kita untuk akrab dengan teknologi dan guru adalah orang pertama yang dituntut untuk menguasai teknologi pembelajaran...pandemi di satu sisi memantik kreatifitas guru”. Padlet adalah salah satu platform pembelajaran daring yang bisa menjadi pilihan guru untuk tetap melaksanakan pembelajaran dengan menarik dan efektif. Kehadiran padlet menambah pilihan bagi guru untuk menyajikan pembelajaran daring. Dengan berbagai kelebihan-kelebihan yang dimiliki padlet sebagai platform pembelajaran daring diharapkan agar pembelajaran dapat terlaksana dengan efektif walaupun dalam masa pandemi covid 19. Lebih lanjut, penggunaan padlet dalam pembelajaran dapat dijadikan sebagai wadah kolaborasi antar guru baik sesama guru mata pelajaran maupun antar mata pelajaran. Hal ini juga relevan dengan “silent revolution” yang menjadi ciri komunitas belajar dalam Lesson Study for Learning Community/LSLC).