10 Jan 2023
Contemporary Digital Literacy: Open Education as a Digital Right
Digital culture has, since the advent of the web as a popular system, demanded a new kind of literacy: digital literacy. In the work of South American authors, the concept of “alphabetization” has been used to describe literacy that involves not only knowing how to decode letters and numbers, but knowing how to read the... Read More
06 Jan 2023
What Does it Mean to Build a New Social Contract for Education? An invitation to Think, Act…and Write!
In this NORRAG Highlights, Elena Toukan from UNESCO’s Futures of Education initiative discusses the idea of a new social contract for education, which was proposed in the flagship report Reimagining Our Futures Together: A new social contract for education. The socio-political agreement at the heart of education systems requires reimagination, to probe why, how and... Read More
22 Dec 2022
Ensuring rights-based quality Education for Refugee in host communities: An analysis of policy, curriculum, teaching and pedagogies in Ontario, Canada
In this blog post, part of the NORRAG Blog Series on the Role of Quality Education in Building Just and Sustainable Peace, Neelofar Ahmed, doctoral student at the Ontario Institute for Studies of Education at the University of Toronto, considers children refugees’ integration into host countries’ education systems. Focusing on the case of Ontario, Canada,... Read More
15 Dec 2022
Call for Contributions! NORRAG Special Issue 09: Foundational Learning: Current Debates and Praxes
NORRAG, an associated programme of the Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland, invites contributions to NORRAG Special Issue (NSI) 09 on Foundational Learning: Current Debates and Praxes. The contributions are expected to be short written articles (typically around 1200-1500 words) or multimedia material that can speak to a wider audience of policymakers, academics, researchers, civil society organizations,... Read More
15 Dec 2022
Context matters: critical evidence gaps in non-state education
This Blog Post is contributed by the Education Finance Network which convenes diverse education stakeholders with a focus on directing non-state resources toward creating inclusive, high-quality education in low- and middle-income countries globally. It is part of the NORRAG Blog Series on Missing Education Data which aims to further explore six themes that emerged from... Read More
15 Dec 2022
Event Highlights: Mapping the International Geneva Ecosystem in Education
On 6 December 2022, NORRAG and Dark Matter Labs organised the event “Mapping the International Geneva Ecosystem in Education”. The event took place at Maison de la paix, Geneva Graduate Institute, with around 50 attendants. The goal of the event was to develop an understanding of the ecosystem of international cooperation for education located in... Read More
14 Dec 2022
NORRAG at CIES 2023: "Improving Education for a More Equitable World" - NORRAG Panels
The NORRAG team will participate in the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Annual Conference on 14-22 February 2023, both online and in-person in Washington D.C., USA. This year’s CIES Conference theme is “Improving Education for a More Equitable World”, which speaks to NORRAG’s mission and key principles. During the conference, we will highlight knowledge... Read More
14 Dec 2022
Call for Expressions of Interest: Scaling Quality Teacher Professional Development Grant Program
The Foundation for Information Technology Education and Development (FIT-ED) has released a Call for Expression of Interest for the “Scaling Quality Teacher Professional Development Grant Program”, which is supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The programme aims to address the need for more research and knowledge sharing among governments and other key education... Read More
13 Dec 2022
Using Education as a Medium for Peacebuilding in Conflict Zones, Conceptualisation vs Reality: A case study of Peacebuilding Initiatives In North-East Nigeria
In this blog post, part of the NORRAG Blog Series on the Role of Quality Education in Building Just and Sustainable Peace, Maryam Danburam looks at the integration of value-based curricula into education systems, focusing on their contribution to peace building efforts in conflict zones. In the case of Nigeria, the civil society organisation Neem... Read More