EDUCATION DEANS
 
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Learning, Teaching, Research, Community
All students are entitled to be taught, counseled and supported by skilled professionals who truly make a difference in their learning and overall development. The selection, preparation and guidance of teachers and other educators through their initial teacher education and subsequent stages of development is crucial. Long-term national/state education work force development planning and investments in strong, diverse and responsive post-secondary institutions to facilitate evidence-based, data-driven and experience-tested strategies and programs to recruit, educate, induct, develop, certify additional qualifications and nurture post-graduate scholars is essential.

The student-teacher relationship is at the centre of the learning process. The local school, working in concert with their students, parents and local community agencies, is the place where the whole child develops intellectually and academically, acquires healthy social, ethical and personal values, learns about work and potential careers and begins to act as a citizen in their community, society and the world.

It is essential that decisions about teaching and learning be made at the local level as much as possible within the frameworks, policies and guidelines established by national and state governments as well as by local educational authorities and schools. However, as global environmental, economic and social trends and forces have demonstrated, we are all connected. It is increasingly evident that international cooperation through global organizations and UN agencies concerned with education has become easier and more effective through a variety of information and communications technologies.

The voice and contributions of Deans of Education should be part of the many global initiatives that will have an impact on education and education faculties. See below and go to this page for for a list of our activities.
A global network...
  • led by regional and national associations
  • linked with global networks concerned with education
  • offering faculty leaders an opportunity to collaborate and contribute
  • promoting equity and educational success through selected global initiatives

What's New
  • plan to attend the first GNDE Conference in Innsbruck, Austria, September 2-4, 2024
  • GNDE is facilitating a group of global educator organizations who have published a joint statement on rebuilding, renewing and transforming school systems
  • view the recording of our founding meeting
  • read the GNDE foundations paper on the role of education faculties in the global agenda for high quality education
  • participate in GNDE webinars & web meetings on timely topics

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 Education in a Globalized World - Some Selected Items (See our updated list)

The UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
education is not only described in Goal #4 but throughout all the other goals and where education has been described by the UN Secretary General and others as the central vehicle for their achievement
The Education Workforce Initiative of the Education Commission on financing led by Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy on Education
UNESCO Activities, including monitoring of education through its Institute for Statistics, the International Task Force on Teachers and the 2030 Framework for Action arising from the 2015 Incheon Declaration endorsed by member states as well as the status of K-12 teachers and post-secondary educators and the annual Global Education Monitoring Report
OECD Activities including the Education 2030 initiative on competency-based curricula, the OECD Education at a Glance reporting on the state of education around the world and the expanding use of the PISA report in policy-making
World Bank Activities including monitoring and influencing of education quality through its funding and SABER systems monitoring