20 Jan 2023
Event Highlights: Book Launch Systems Thinking in International Education and Development: Unlocking Learning for All?
On 8 February 2023, NORRAG launched the book Systems Thinking in International Education and Development: Unlocking Learning for All?, edited by NORRAG Executive Director Moira V. Faul and Laura Savage, Associate Member of the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge. The book is the fourth volume in the... Read More
19 Jan 2023
How Far are Arab Countries from Meeting SDG4 Education Targets?
In this NORRAG Blog, part of the series on Missing Education Data, Karma El Hassan, Professor of Educational Psychology Measurement and Evaluation at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, addresses priority gaps within the education data systems across the Arab States. Despite Arab States’ efforts to meet Sustainable Development Goal 4 on education (SDG4), their progress... Read More
18 Jan 2023
Event Highlights: Launch of the Chinese Edition of NORRAG Special Issue 06: “States of Emergency: Education in the Time of COVID-19”
The Chinese Edition of NSI 06, prepared by Jun Teng, Deputy Director, Professor of Institute of International and Comparative Education-IICE, Beijing Normal University and Editor of the Chinese language version of NSI, was launched online on 30 December 2022. It includes two articles written by authors located in China in addition to translations of 15... Read More
12 Jan 2023
Education and Skills for Women’s Integration Into the Labor Market: a Comparative Analysis of Eight Sub-Saharan African Countries
In this NORRAG Highlights, Carolina Alban Conto, Research and Development Manager of the IIEP-UNESCO Dakar, and Alessia Forti, Lead researcher, IIEP-UNESCO Dakar, present the key findings of a recently published paper which diagnoses the situation of women in terms of their integration into the labour market and identifies promising education and training practices to address... Read More
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