19 Apr 2022
Gender Sensitive Teaching: Insights from African and Latin American Contexts
Date: 28 April 2022 Location: Online Girls’ access to education has increased significantly over the past decades worldwide. However, girls still experience the most extreme forms of exclusion. Gender-sensitive responses must go beyond access to education and mobilise the full potential of education to transform attitudes and practices within the education system. The webinar builds... Read More
15 Apr 2022
Thinking About Development in a Time of New Possibility
This NORRAG Highlights is cross-posted with the spring 2022 issue of ‘CIES Perspectives’ published by the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). In this piece, we, a small group of education scholars brought together by NORRAG, an international network of academics, policymakers, and practitioners working in international cooperation and education, many from the global South,... Read More
14 Apr 2022
Events Highlights: Global Launch of regional editions of NSI 05 on Domestic Financing: Tax and Education
In keeping with our core principles of accessibility and inclusiveness, NORRAG publishes regional editions of NORRAG Special Issues (NSI) in Arabic, Chinese (simplified characters), English, French, Spanish, and Russian. On 25 March 2022, in cooperation with NSI regional editors, we hosted the global launch of the regional editions of NORRAG Special Issue 05: Domestic Financing:... Read More
14 Apr 2022
Using Data for Accountability
This Blog Post is contributed by Angela Arnott, an education Policy Analyst from Southern Africa and working across Africa, as part of the NORRAG Blog Series on Missing Education Data which aims to further explore six themes that emerged from the inaugural summit and its accompanying papers and expert consultations. In this post, the author... Read More
14 Apr 2022
Event highlights: KIX EAP Webinar 12 “Education as Development in the centenary of Paulo Freire”
русский I العربية The 12th KIX EAP Webinar took place on 30 March 2022. The webinar explored the linkages between Education and Development through the lens of Paulo Freire and joined the celebration of the centenary of the Brazilian educator. More than 170 participants from over 50 countries attended the event. The webinar was conducted... Read More
12 Apr 2022
Roundtable discussion on the right to education and privatisation in Latin America
On 20 April 2022, at 2pm GMT, the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) will host a roundtable discussion on the current landscape for the right to education in the Latin American region, including the common challenges regarding privatisation. Please note that the event will be held in Spanish. REGISTER The event will... Read More
08 Apr 2022
Applications for vacancy of Special Rapporteur on the right to education to be appointed at the 50th session of the UNHCR
On 22 February 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Council announced a call for applications to fill the vacancy of Special Rapporteur to the right to education. Applications, including a motivation letter, must be submitted and received by 13 April 2022 at 12 noon Geneva time. To learn more, please click here. About the position... Read More
08 Apr 2022
Education Data in Displacement Context: What Ukraine Does and Has to Do to Collect Data on IDPs?
This Blog Post is contributed by Olena Shevtsova, Deputy Director of Administrative Directorate, State Statistics Service of Ukraine and Anastasiia Fitisova, Durable Solutions Project Coordinator, Danish Refugee Council in Ukraine as part of the NORRAG Blog Series on Missing Education Data which aims to further explore six themes that emerged from the inaugural summit and... Read More
06 Apr 2022
KIX EAP Podcast #12: Rokeya Akhter, Executive Director at the South Asian Institute for Social Transformation, Dhaka, Bangladesh
This episode of the KIX EAP Podcast hosted by Ryan Allen, Assistant Professor, Chapman University (USA) features Dr. U S Rokeya Akhter, Executive Director of the South Asian Institute for Social Transformation (SAIST) and interim National KIX Coordinator, Bangladesh. In the podcast, Rokeya explains how Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed was used to advocate for... Read More
05 Apr 2022
Webinar: School Leadership & Governance in Crisis Contexts - sharing good practice, lessons learned and opportunities for change
On 13 April 2022 at 15:00 – 16:00 (UTC), INEE’s Teachers in Crisis Contexts (TiCC) Collaborative, in partnership with the LEGO Foundation, Education International, Oxfam, UNESCO, and the International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030, have come together to support a Call to Action to transform sector-wide support to teachers in crisis contexts. Part of this work is to share examples... Read More