31 Jan 2022
CIES Honorary Fellow Award Webinar: Collaborative Reflections with 2021 CIES Honorary Fellow Dr. Joel Samoff
The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) has announced an upcoming webinar in the CIES Honorary Fellow Award Webinar series with long-standing and active member of NORRAG Joel Samoff. The webinar will take place on Tuesday 15 February 2022 from 9:00 – 10:30 Pacific Time I 12:00-13:30 Eastern Time I 18:00 – 19:30 CET on... Read More
28 Jan 2022
2, 3 and 4 February: XVII Congreso Nacional de Educación Comparada
[Spanish below] On 2, 3 and 4 February 2022, the Department of Theories of Education and Social Pedagogy of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and the Department of Theory and History of Education of the University of Barcelona (UB) will host the XVII Congress of the Spanish Society of Comparative Education. NORRAG Director, Gita... Read More
26 Jan 2022
The state of the global education crisis: A patch to recovery
The State of the Global Education Crisis: A Path to Recovery provides a stark reality check for education systems worldwide and presents a menu of policy actions for recovering learning and using this crisis as an opportunity to reinvent education—to make it more resilient, more equitable, and more efficient in delivering learning for all. Published... Read More
25 Jan 2022
Financing Early Childhood Development: The Impact Bond Innovation Fund, South Africa
In November 2017, in Cape Town, South Africa, a group of unlikely partners came together to launch a financial experiment. The partners included an international NGO, a local community-based organisation, a financial consultancy, two corporate foundations, a local investment house, a Swiss-based private bank, and a provincial government department. Together, these partners were testing a... Read More
13 Jan 2022
How the COVID pandemic is shifting international knowledge production from global to local
In observing the effects of COVID-19 worldwide, Professor Gita Steiner-Khamsi finds at least one positive outcome of the pandemic: the recognition and amplification of local expertise. This article was originally posted on the Graduate Institute, Geneva website in connection with the celebrations on 24 January of the fourth International Day of Education. We have become accustomed... Read More
12 Jan 2022
Education and Conflict Review (ECR) journal: Call for Papers
You are invited to submit a paper for publication in a special Issue on teaching and teachers in conflict-affected settings during COVID-19 for the Education and Conflict Review (ECR) journal housed at the Center for Education and International Development, Institute of Education, University College London. The journal provides a forum for knowledge exchange to build... Read More
10 Jan 2022
NORRAG Network
22 Dec 2021
Event highlights: KIX EAP Webinar 11 "Building the Capacity of Teachers @ Scale for Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education"
русский I العربية The 11th KIX EAP Webinar on “Building the Capacity of Teachers @ Scale for Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education” took place on 17 February 2022. Organised by NORRAG in collaboration with the KIX research grantee Teacher Professional Development at Scale (TPD@Scale) Coalition for the Global South, this virtual event was attended by... Read More
13 Dec 2021
Launch of the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report on Non-state Actors in Education
UNESCO’s 2021/22 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report on Non-state Actors in Education: Who chooses? Who loses? launched online on 10 December 2021. The fifth GEM report reviews progress towards SDG4, including evidence on the impact of Covid-19, and invites policy makers to question relationships with non-state actors whose role extends beyond provision of schooling to... Read More
13 Dec 2021
100 Years of Paulo Freire: Annual Conference at Columbia University
On 1,2,7,8 and 9 December 2021, Teachers College, the Lemann Center at the Institute for Latin American Studies, and the Transformative Learning Technologies Lab, all at Columbia University organised “100 Years of Paulo Freire: Annual Conference at Columbia University”. Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Professor at the Graduate Institute, Geneva and at Teachers College, Columbia University and Director... Read More