Overview: As the largest professionally trained group in the world, teachers know who is sick, missing, orphaned by disasters, and at risk for human trafficking. They are the glue that holds society together, and a development army in everyone’s backyard.

Teachers are not the problem. They are the solution. Their voices must be heard. In the Small Places is a testament to teacher changemakers for our world’s intractable challenges: education in emergencies, corruption, racism, war, human rights, and girls’ education.

Verdict: Eleanor Roosevelt once asked, Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

Thus, In the Small Places is about teacher agency in those small places and has been written by someone - author Dr. Fred Mednick - who writes with a heartfelt passion and who, and importantly, wants you to hear their words to garner yourself a better stronghold on the subject to hand.

As I think we can all agree, teachers can equip their pupils to be life-long learners. Learning to love learning is one of the most important skills that a teacher can pass on to his or her students. If a child learns to embrace new skills and always pursue a challenge, that child can achieve incredible goals. Teachers are role models.

What we get here in In the Small Places: Stories of Teacher Changemakers and the Power of Human Agency is a reminder that teachers, in any shape or form, truly matter in our lives and worlds.

With their roles in our lives having played a massively creative bent to forming a better future for us all, whilst at the same time embodying the spirit and power of teachers, this book also shows us, and without a shadow of a doubt, how support for teachers is an investment in a highly sustainable future.

About the Author - Dr. Fred Mednick founded Teachers Without Borders (TWB) in 2000 to connect teachers to information and each other to close the education divide. He is a Professor of Education Sciences at Vrije Universiteit, Brussels and was a Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Mercer Island, WA.

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