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GNDE Activities: Consortium of Education & Other Faculties on Health, Personal & Social Development

The Global Network of Deans of Education is participating is a Working Group on health, personal and social development education that has been convened by the FRESH Partnership (a committee of UN agencies, donors and NGO’s). In cooperation with the International School Health Network, this includes the formation and facilitation of a Consortium of Education and Other Faculties to lead and facilitate research and development related to the initial education and ongoing professional development of educators and other professionals. This Consortium will also be linked to a parallel International Research Network (IRN) that has been created by the World Education Research Association.

A Consortium of Education and Other Faculties Promoting Health, Personal & Social Development

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The Consortium of Education and Other Faculties has been established to promote the development of a work force for HPSD education and the social role of schooling. This includes a variety of education professionals as well as other professionals that work in the health, child protection, social protection, humanitarian aid & development and other sectors who have job assignments to work within or with schools. 

The work of the Consortium of Education & Other Faculties on HPSD education and promotion is relevant to these current global and UN initiatives:
  • the achievement of the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, especially Goal #4 (Education)
  • the UNESCO International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030 
  • the HPSD or school health & feeding aspects of the World Bank Bang SABER system
  • The Education Workforce Initiative of the Education Commission on financing led by Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy on Education
  • the achievement of the goals and indicators of core HPSD education curricula and programs recommended by the FRESH Framework, a core set of indicators agreed to by several UN agencies

Some of the key concepts underlying the work of the this Consortium of Education and Other Faculties includes:
  • the use of a long-term, systematic Work Force Development approach to HPSD teacher education & development rather than the sporadic, isolated silos focused on single issue/program strategies
  • an inter-professional education strategy for the necessary inter-faculty connections between education and other faculties preparing professionals to work with or within schools
  • a questioning of the "competencies" movement and its application to teachers and other professionals, especially when the art and the science of their work goes beyond simple recitations of knowledge and skills to include beliefs, norms, social context/attitudes and other important attributes
  • recognition of the stages and structures of a life/career-long approach to initial education and ongoing professional development
  • applications of newer and alternative models of initial and professional development (beyond the applied science, craft and reflective models) to include frameworks such as concerns-based strategies, mentoring, coaching, self-directed, teacher action research and other growth-based approaches
  • better understanding of the multiple demands and roles that teachers are asked to perform on heakth, social and equity issues
  • deeper understanding of the social backgrounds, daily work lives, constraints, flat career structures, professional and normative beliefs held by educators and other professionals
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
  • view the recording of our initial meeting
  • view a recording of the first GNDE workshop held the AERA conference in Toronto in April 2019

 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