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People & Places. GeoBeats - Guided video tours of your next international destination. How Children Learn: Portraits of Classrooms Around the World. By Maria Popova A revealing lens on a system-phenomenon both global in reach and strikingly local in degree of diversity.

How Children Learn: Portraits of Classrooms Around the World

Since 2004, Julian Germain has been capturing the inner lives of schools around the world, from England to Nigeria to Qatar, in his large-scale photographs of schoolchildren in class. Getting Around Town. Houses around the World. Everything You Own In A Photo: A Look At Our Worldly Possessions : The Picture Show. Today on All Things Considered, photographer Peter Menzel and his wife, Faith D’Aluisio, discuss their latest book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.

Everything You Own In A Photo: A Look At Our Worldly Possessions : The Picture Show

But 16 years ago, Menzel was working on another project, called Material World: A Global Family Portrait. He and other photographers took portraits of 30 statistically average families with all of their worldly possessions displayed outside their homes. Hide caption The Ukita family in front of their home in Tokyo. From Peter Menzel's "Material World" project, which photographs 30 statistically average families in 30 different countries with all of their possessions. What the World Eats, Part I - Photo Essays. School meals from around the world (30 pics. Where children sleep. The world's favourite foods: interactive. Turn autoplay off Edition: <span><a href=" Sign in Beta About us Today's paper.

The world's favourite foods: interactive