Enriching Education: What Lessons Can the World Learn from Iceland?

 What Lessons Can the World Learn from Iceland is the new podcast from Planet Classroom. Like other immigrant-receiving countries, Iceland has had to grapple with accommodating foreigners. What is the line between embracing globalization and maintaining individuality? In this episode of Planet Classroom, guests including Scaling Iceland’s Director, Adam Hersko-RonaTas, explore the themes of globalization and share their perspectives on how identity can be analyzed and where the balance lies between a global nation and an individual one. “Iceland welcomes the rest of the world with open arms, but, at the same time, it understandably wishes to insulate what is uniquely Icelandic from foreign influences and external pressures, so that they can protect their cultural traditions. We should be aware that its ecosystem, in particular, is vulnerable and must not be treated with negligence,” says Julian Cao

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The Planet Classroom Network, organized by CMRubinWorld, brings together musicians, dancers, video game creators, filmmakers, learning innovators and emerging technologists from all over the world to entertain, educate and engage youth, and to provide a rich cultural experience at a time when art and learning institutions everywhere are not accessible. Curators and content contributors include Global Nomads, Global Oneness, the Martha Graham Dance Company, Commffest, KIDS FIRST!, Dream a Dream Foundation, OddWorld Inhabitants, Psyon Games, Challenge 59, LXL Ideas, Alliance for Young Artists & Writers/Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Creative Visions Foundation, Battery Dance, SIMA Classroom, Young Voices for the Planet, Bard Conservatory, Taking It Global, Materials for the Arts, Book Creator, Addition and Art, XTalks, NFFTY, Young People's Chorus of New York City, The International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace, Ryan Wong Classroom, The Global Search for Education, Voice America, Rocketium and Brandartica. Young people from around the world played a significant role in conceptualizing, creating, and producing the network's vision and programming.