EDUCATION DEANS
 
A network of networks promoting education & serving Deans of Education
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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) has been cancelled until further notice, due to worldwide concerns about health and wellbeing.
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
  • 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
  • view the recording of our initial meeting
  • view a recording of the first GNDE workshop held the AERA conference in Toronto in April 2019
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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