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  1. Equity and inclusion 4 October 2023

    Aloyo Stella's Classroom: a reflection on the education we want

    Susan Hopgood

    “Despite the terrible conditions, we continue to support our students because we know our work is critical for millions of the most vulnerable children around the world. But we cannot do it alone.” Aloyo Stella Oryang , refugee teacher.

    Aloyo Stella's Classroom: a reflection on the education we want
  2. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 September 2023

    Copyright in education: bringing the classroom to life

    Dr Dara Dimitrov

    As the daughter of a refugee, education as a necessity was drummed into me. ‘You need to get a good education’ was my father’s lead mantra. My father was denied that right, and although he spoke seven languages, he could barely read one. My father saw education as a way...

    Copyright in education: bringing the classroom to life
  3. Higher education and research 28 September 2023

    Copyright problems impede cross-border teaching

    Patricia Aufderheide, Juliya Ziskina, Kimberly Anastácio

    For teachers who work across national borders, copyright and licensing restrictions can create barriers that prevent them from doing their work. This affects the quality of instruction, and also impedes the growth of global learning strategies that otherwise have the potential to lower the North/South gap in educational access.

    Copyright problems impede cross-border teaching
  4. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 September 2023

    Copyright and teaching materials in Senegal

    Mar Mbodj

    Copyright gives authors exclusive control over their works. In education, however, the balance between access to information and respect for copyright is a major challenge. It is essential that we guarantee equitable access to protected knowledge while preserving the rights of artists and authors. Against this backdrop we have conducted...

    Copyright and teaching materials in Senegal
  5. Leading the profession 26 September 2023

    Valuing the humanity of teachers and the teaching profession

    Carol Campbell, Kelsey Lewis

    Education involves the development of humanity. This requires valuing the humanity of teachers as people and professionals, and the importance of their complex work to teach learners and equip them to thrive in their lives. Below, we discuss our background paper submitted to the United Nation's High-Level Panel on the...

    Valuing the humanity of teachers and the teaching profession
  6. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 September 2023

    Teaching in an age of crises: rediscovering the importance of dignity

    Howard Stevenson

    In 1968, Martin Luther King addressed striking sanitation workers in Memphis, but his words will resonate with teachers around the world today: “. . . whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth”. Tackling what...

    Teaching in an age of crises: rediscovering the importance of dignity
  8. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 September 2023

    Equitable access to the teaching profession is vital to quality education

    Mary Metcalfe

    When I was asked to draft a contribution on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for the UN High-Panel on the Teaching Profession , I agreed without hesitation because I believe that equitable access to the teaching profession (for those working in classrooms and those working at different levels of the system)...

    Equitable access to the teaching profession is vital to quality education
  9. Future of work in education 25 August 2023

    Resisting and reimagining Artificial Intelligence

    Neil Selwyn

    In light of the recent hysteria around Chat-GPT, Education International member organisations might well groan at having to read yet another post about Artificial Intelligence and education. However, unfortunately AI is not a topic that educators can afford to completely tune out from. Indeed, there are a lot of people...

    Resisting and reimagining Artificial Intelligence
  10. Equity and inclusion 17 August 2023

    Te Maeva Nui Celebrations

    Georgina Mataroa

    Te Maeva Nui is a significant event in the Cook Islands that celebrates our culture, traditions, and the progress we have made as a nation. As a self-governing territory associated with New Zealand, we have ample opportunities to travel and support our people's success and well-being.

    Te Maeva Nui Celebrations
  11. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 August 2023

    Truth and Reconciliation: the responsibility of education and teachers towards Sami, Kven and Forest Finn communities in Norway

    Kathrine Blyverket

    In 2018, Norway’s Parliament established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to examine historic policies and activities relating to Indigenous Peoples, including attempts to assimilate them. On 1 June 2023, after five years of work, the commission presented its report , based on interviews with more than 700 people, illustrating very...

    Truth and Reconciliation: the responsibility of education and teachers towards Sami, Kven and Forest Finn communities in Norway
  12. Leading the profession 1 August 2023

    Teachers as change agents and knowledge creators

    Dr. David Frost

    The HertsCam Network is currently playing an enabling role in the ‘Teacher-Led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment’ project led by Educational International and funded by the Jacobs Foundation. At HertsCam, we are committed to ‘non-positional teacher leadership’ in which any teacher can be empowered and enabled to lead the development...

    Teachers as change agents and knowledge creators
  13. Fighting the commercialisation of education 27 July 2023

    Education unions grappling with Artificial Intelligence: we snooze, we lose.

    Rob Weil

    There is a lot of speculation regarding the future of teaching and learning in compulsory education, especially with recent developments in technology. The world-wide release of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence platforms have created a plethora of new, even more difficult, questions. What role will these AI systems play...

    Education unions grappling with Artificial Intelligence: we snooze, we lose.
  14. Climate action and literacy 25 July 2023

    From poetic pedagogy to a poetics of pedagogy

    Diana Léocadie, Sydalise Dufestin

    Pedagogy speaks of children. Poetry is addressed to children – the children we once were. In this alliance of words, it may then be possible to find something still unexplored, or something so simple we have not thought of it. Something that would open new doors or paths by giving...

    From poetic pedagogy to a poetics of pedagogy
  15. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 July 2023

    Addressing and combating racism through education in Brazil

    Luanda Julião

    “Raise your hand if you have ever been a victim of racism.” That was the first sentence I said to my pupils in a secondary school class, in order to discuss the issue of racism and its social ramifications.

    Addressing and combating racism through education in Brazil
  16. Union renewal and development 7 July 2023

    Education International's 30th anniversary: Inspiration from the past and hope for the future

    Fred van Leeuwen

    The creation of Education International in 1993 was a critical advance for global education trade unionism. It put together democratic, international trade union and professional associations and ended long-standing divisions and rivalries. It also united all education sectors. The new organisation became the undisputed global voice of education workers and...

    Education International's 30th anniversary: Inspiration from the past and hope for the future
  17. Leading the profession 6 July 2023

    Past and present, women persist in their unions

    Susan Hopgood

    Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, teacher unionists were in an optimistic mood. Mary Hatwood Futrell, president of the US-based National Education Association, rose to address a global gathering of teacher leaders in Stockholm as Education International was born.

    Past and present, women persist in their unions
  18. Fighting the commercialisation of education 26 June 2023

    Decolonising education: sovereign and fiscally-just budgets for public education

    Latin American Observatory of Education Policies

    Decolonising education financing – the theme of this year’s Global Action Week for Education – rests on decolonising the very concepts of development, state management, public policy, working relationships, pedagogical approaches and collaboration between peoples and their governments.

    Decolonising education: sovereign and fiscally-just budgets for public education