RITOK NJRA (Berettőuyfalu, 20 June 1960 – ) is a teacher, founder and professional leader of the Igazdöndő Foundation, and director of the Igazdöndő Primary Art School. She fights child poverty and extreme poverty, works on opportunity creation and integration. She is an active artist; she is constantly published and teaches.
Teaching work
- 1982–2000: primary school education
- 1999–2001: secondary education (art secondary school)
- Since 2000: primary art education
Schools
- 1978–1982: Bessenyei György Pedagogical College – geography – drawing
- 2000–2003: Hungarian University of Applied Arts – visual communication, environmental culture
- 2003–2005: BME – Training of leaders in public education
Publications
Books
- Textbooks (Creating is good! 1, 2, 3, 4 grades, Visual education 9–10 grades – co-authored, Pedellus Publishing House, 2001–2006)
- Let’s create together! Cooperative methodological publication (SuliNova, 2005)
- Let’s look around together! Methodological publication on the development of competencies (SuliNova, 2007)
- Drawing is good! (A Resource for Visual Education Teachers) (Educatio, 2008)
- Project-Based Pedagogy in the Education of Students from Low-Income Families (Educatio, 2008)
- Magical Drawings (Slovak-Hungarian Teachers Association, 2008)
- Developing Competencies with the Tools of Art (Prolog Publishing, Nagyvárad, 2010)
- Equal Opportunities Going Upwards (Underground Publishing, Budapest, 2011)
- Invisible Hungary (Tea Publishing, 2017)
- Every Child Matters, a series of e-books for teaching, 2022, also in print (Kocsis Publishing, 2022)
- A World Divided in Two (TEA Publishing, 2022)
Blogs
- HVG On the Edge of Suffering
- Donation Blog
Awards and Recognition
- Municipal: For pedagogical work (1998), For the city of Berettőuyfalu (2002)
- Blanka Teleki Award (2008)
- György Várhégy Award (2008)
- Apacsáj Čeré János Award (2009)
- Promenade Award (2009)
- Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit to the Hungarian Republic (2010) – Returned the award on August 31, 2016.
- Ambassador of Hungarian Talents (2011–2016)
- Hungarian Tolerance Award (Hajdu-Bihar) (2011)
- László Hollo Award (2012)
- Bonis Bona Award (outstanding talent manager) (2014)
- Ashoka Fellow (since 2014)
- In 2016, she was included in the list of the fifty most influential Hungarian women (Forbes magazine), and in 2019 – in the list of “Faces of Forbes”.
- On the proposal of the Faculty of Education and Psychology of Eötvös Loránd University, the University Senate awarded him the title of Honorary Associate Professor (2016)
- Social Specialist of the Year Award (2016)
- Public Life Award (MSZP Women’s Branch Award) – (2017)
- Red Wine Award (2017)
- Volunteer of the Year (“Heroes Every Day”, Hajdu-Bihar County) (2018)
- Humanitarian Award from the European Fatwa Council for Halal Operations (Austria) (2018)
- Prima Primissima – Audience Award (2018)
- Ember Maria Award (2019)
- SuperWMN Award for Public Service 2019
- Kaposvári József Award (2019)
- Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (2023)
- My Homeland Award (2023) [ 2 ]
- László Bohdan Award (2023) [ 3 ]
- Italian Chamber of Commerce for Hungary (CCIU) Award for Promoting Gender Equality (2024)
- OTP FÁY Award for Educational Innovation, Junior Primary School Division Category, Gold Award to Igazdőndő Primary Art School for the Visual Education Program “Triple Focus”. (The methodology was developed by Nora L. Ritok)
Artwork
Membership
- National Association of Hungarian Artists (1993)
- Aytoshy Dürer Graphic Artists Association (2000)
Exhibitions
- Over 100 personal exhibitions in Hungary since 1991
- Group exhibitions: regional and national autumn, spring, summer exhibitions, thematic exhibitions
- Foreign group exhibitions: Yugoslavia, Romania, USA, Poland, China
