Learning, Teaching, Research, Community

About the GNDE

The Global Network of Deans of Education (GNDE) has been established to facilitate cooperation and exchanges of information and knowledge among national and regional associations of deans of education as well as convey the views of teacher educators to various global initiatives and UN agencies.The Network operate primarily through email, web meetings and other electronic means but also organizes meetings, workshops and events either separately or in conjunction with conferences organized by others.

The global network act to articulate the views and concerns of deans and faculties of education. The immediate actions include:

1. Use the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals, especially Goal #4 (education), as a unifying focus and framework. (See this update on recent UN activities in monitoring Goal #4 as they review progress in a series of regional meetings and committees leading up to a high level review in September 2019)
   
   
2. Act as a network of networks/associations that already represent and serve Deans of Education while offering the possibility of engaging individual Deans and retired Deans through information, knowledge and other activities
   
   
3. Form partnerships and undertake joint activities with other global organizations representing teachers, teacher educators, education researchers and others
   
   
4. Build on existing linkages with UNESCO and its work on teacher education and its teacher education task force
   
   
5. Respond to the Education Workforce Initiative of the Education Commission chaired by Gordon Brown, UN Envoy on Education

The GNDE began with networking and communications activities, including:

• mapping out national and regional associations of education deans and their current activities
  communicating with faculties of education worldwide to invite their participation in the network

 

• a side meeting at the conference of the American Education Research Association (AERA) held from 5-9 April 2019 in Toronto, Canada

 

• participating in the consortium of groups working on teacher education/development related to health and social development convened by the FRESH Partnership (a committee of UN agencies, donors and NGO’s)

 

• collaborating with the Global Learning Equity Network led by the University of Newcastle in Australia

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• convening a Strategic Workshop on 'The Essential Role of Faculties of Education in Serving Students, Communities, States, Countries and the Global Community'; this meeting, which would have taken place at the University of Innsbruck, Austria from 24-27 May 2020 (by invitation) were cancelled due to worldwide concerns about health and wellbeing.  However, since early 2022 discussions on this event have been re-activated; more details to follow in due course.

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