International Boys' Schools Coalition Exploring Boys' Education

S7/Ep. 08 - Boys, Connection, and a Changing World

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In this episode of the IBSC Exploring Boys' Education Podcast, Bruce Collins revisits a year of IBSC online programming, pulling together the ideas that ran through session after session. Three themes emerge from the year: connection as the foundation of boys' development, the digital world boys now navigate, and the case for boys' schools as the institutions best built to respond to both.

Tune in for a tour through the year’s most useful ideas on boys, connection, and the schools built to deliver both.

IBSC Exploring Boys' Education music composed and performed by Tom DiGiovanni.
18 Jun English South Africa Education

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