Dare to educate Afghan girls - Shabana Basij-Rasikh

I know this blog is about Education its aim to demonstrate that striving to improve and inspire, to enhance and progress education is a vocational life changing journey for the educator in training. This blog therefore is is reflective about my journey to become an educator, my journey that encompasses the use of information technology. As part of this assignment I have been asked to write a blog on an inspirational Ted Talk. I think possibly the aim was to show an inspirational educator, one who is innovative with regards to modern methods of education. One who is cognisant with the advancement of the twenty first century and  and its relationship to the education of the children and lifelong learners who inhabit this age.

However I have chose the Tedtalk by Shabana Basij-Rasikh: Dare to educate Afghan girls. In this the privilege of the right to education is unequivocally discussed.

 The right to education is not questioned in the Western world yet there are many cultures that see education for women as illegal and unworthy. Through the use of Information technology the power of the first hand experience of Shabana Basij-Rasikh and other inspirational women like her are delivered right into our interactive world.  The fight for education under the rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan is articulated and emotionally delivered into our consciousness. 

In the case of videos like this the firsthand experience of Shabana and others such as Malala Yousafzai  (who was shot on her way to school)

the learning environment is enriched and emotion demonstrated in a way that purely discussion could never convey. The passion for the right to education is in itself education, and a privilege to witness.