Former Citizen TV news anchor Jackie Maribe, the second accused in the murder of Monica Nyawira Kimani has disclosed that she learned of the death of the deceased while reading news at Royal Media Services
The concept of belonging has found prominence in higher education learning environments, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have an unprecedented impact on educational provision. In times of disruption, alienation and isolation, the most basic of our psychological and physiological needs have come to be almost universally recognised as critical factors that must be considered and examined. Experiencing belonging is integral to human existence, and knowing where, with whom, and how we belong, is a salient driver for learning and self-actualisation. We recognise there are a number of ways to frame and approach the idea of belonging in the educational experience. We also recognise that there are multiple understandings of what belonging means and therefore how it is enacted within the curricula and the “classroom” in its varying forms - physical, online, digital, work-based. This Editorial takes a critical perspective to our own intellectual standpoint in relation to pedagogies of
ours was one of the few asian families in the neighborhood and i was teased all the time. kids would come up to me and go, oh, lisa ring. when you are a little kid, you just don t want to stand out. you just don t want to be different. so when i was teased, i never told anyone about it, i never complained, i just repressed it. i had so much shame about being asian, and then i must have been 10 or 11 years old when my dad was reading the newspaper and there was a story about a young man in detroit who was brutally murdered because of his race. it just exacerbated that feeling of un-belonging for me.