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It seems to me that some where along the line, we as the teaching profession lost the collective and professional will to challenge the stifling constraints of ‘health and safety’ and face-down the ‘nay-sayers whose obsession with ‘risk assessments’  vetoed almost every opportunity for children to experience real adventure.

A sciTunes Human Body Adventure By sciTunes | January 05, 2011 @ 21:36:30 A sciTunes Human Body Adventure is an interactive videogame package for pre-K ? fourth grade students that includes six games related to the main systems of the human body. Each game includes a clever, catchy, scientifically accurate song in the background that reinforces the main components of that human body system. The ability to select a difficulty level for each of the games will ensure that the younger children will not become frustrated and that older children will not become bored.

I grew up in a Muslim and Christian home, and because of my Iranian passport, I am legally and exclusively Muslim (in that nation’s eyes at least). I don’t ever identify with a religion, but if I do, I say I’m both. Most people are confused by this response, and so at best it leads to a converse. At worst, it easily fends off people who want to put me neatly and nicely into a box of their own choosing

My personal ethnic ambiguity invites questions as much as it doesn’t. The ability to “pass” as a member of a community, albeit religious, ethnic, or otherwise made me realise I might need to hash out some of the answers to the uncomfortable questions I avoid asking myself, at least before Beirut.

Atlantic Avenue: Adventures in Consumption Landscapes [IFP Beirut]