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:
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

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