The Around the World Issue

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How people grow in Nigeria, Indonesia, Botswana, the Gulf and the Andes

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Every culture has its own way of helping people grow. This issue travels from southeast Nigeria to the Andes and brings back ideas any leader can use, from a master who funds his own rival to a hundred-year-old formula for leading from behind.

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To the Ends of the WorldEighteen voices on how people growFrom Africa, Arabia, Asia, Oceania and South America, on how people grow and on the people who help them grow.Open the map

Southeast NigeriaFrom Around the WorldThe Apprenticeship That Ends With the Master Funding a RivalA master trader trains a young apprentice for years, then sets him up in business. A study traces how the system teaches.Read the story IndonesiaFrom Around the WorldLead From Behind: Indonesia’s Hundred-Year-Old FormulaIn 1922, the country’s future first education minister put good leadership into three lines. Schoolchildren still grow up with the last one.Read the story

BotswanaFrom Around the WorldA Chief Is a Chief Through the PeopleThe kgotla lets a whole community talk until it agrees. Researchers asked what school leaders could learn from it.Read the story The Arab GulfFrom Around the WorldThe Majlis: A Classroom Without WallsPeople gather in the majlis to talk, argue and solve problems together, a model for collaborative learning.Read the story

Cusco, PeruFrom Around the WorldFour Quechua Words for Developing PeopleKnow, care, work, give back. A university builds its idea of education on four Andean values.Read the story South Africa and the United KingdomFrom Around the WorldUbuntu Travels WellA study compared Ubuntu leadership in two countries. It is more common in South Africa, and it works just as well in Britain.Read the story