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Intercambio 19
Global Plans for Education Clash with Local Aspirations Year 12, No.19, October 2022 In mid-2019, the Organization for Economic and Co-operative Development (OECD) unveiled its “learning compass.” Described as a “framework that aims to help students navigate towards future well-being,” the Learning Compass outlined the OECD’s goals for global education over the next decade. The compass was unveiled amid colonial tropes of discovery and conquest but couched in perfunctory references to adapting global priorities to the “local context.” It was also introduced on the eve of the COVID pandemic, offering an enticing promise of a charted path to well-being. Indeed, the OECD is now finalizing a “teaching compass,” extending the…
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Letter in support
Letter in support of Guatemalan students, faculty, university workers and professionals who defending the Autonomy of the University of San Carlos and fair transparent and legal elections for university president
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Weaving a Public Education that Transforms the World
Declaration of theHemispheric Forum The Initiative for Democratic Education in America – IDEA, together with students, teachers, education activists and social and trade union organizations of the Americas, commemorate the life and legacy of Paulo Freire. Freire was a great advocate for emancipatory education to build societies with social justice and democracy. We seek to deepen the knowledge of his work, and recognize the pedagogical experiences inspired by his thought and developed in the daily struggles of students, teachers and communities in defense of education as a social right, generating critical, humanistic and transformative thinking. The disastrous impacts of 40 years of neoliberal privatization of social rights has generated a…
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HEMISPHERIC FORUM
WEAVING PUBLIC EDUCATION THAT TRANSFORMS THE WORLD Centennial of Paulo Freire´s birth October 20-21, 2021 The member organizations of the Initiative for Democratic Education in the Americas (IDEA Network) call for a Hemispheric Forum: “Weaving public education that transforms the world”, to be held on October 20 and 21, 2021. The peoples of the Americas and the entire world are living through complex moments in which not only the devastating effects of a pandemic, but also new offensives against human rights in all fields, are intersecting. However, the struggle to defend them has been swift, as have actions of solidarity among peoples. In the face of the challenges we have…
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Campaign IDEA Network2021
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DECLARATION
IDEA NETWORK Campaign – 2021 AGAINST EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY, AN EMANCIPATORY EDUCATION The world has shifted with the grave consequences of the global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, affecting all nations and especially those with great structural inequalities within their respective populations. This health crisis has combined with economic recession, rising unemployment, increased poverty levels and a deepening of preexisting inequalities; products of neoliberal policies that have spread throughout the planet in these times. This situation is reflected in the education sector by growing inequalities between families regarding standards of living, levels of education, access to internet and the availability of technical resources and digital devices, among other issues. These circumstances also affect the…
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IDEA NETWORK Campaign – 2021
AGAINST EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY, AN EMANCIPATORY EDUCATION Declaration The world has shifted with the grave consequences of the global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, affecting all nations and especially those with great structural inequalities within their respective populations. This health crisis has combined with economic recession, rising unemployment, increased poverty levels and a deepening of preexisting inequalities; products of neoliberal policies that have spread throughout the planet in these times. This situation is reflected in the education sector by growing inequalities between families regarding standards of living, levels of education, access to internet and the availability of technical resources and digital devices, among other issues. These circumstances also affect the precariousness of teachers’ working…
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Against educational inequality, a public education for emancipation
In the context of the greater vulnerability to which we are exposed in the midst of the global pandemic and the systemic crisis, free and universal public education is at risk. The abrupt shift to distance and/or online modalities, (combined in some countries with hybrid online/face-to-face classes) have a significant impact on learning conditions and the health and working conditions of education workers. The technological platforms and resources provided for distance learning are largely defined by large corporations. The abrupt shift to online platforms forces teachers to resort to commercial options as a strategy to provide follow-up and attention to their students. Students have attempted to access this virtual education process,…
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Happy new year!
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COVID-19 and Online Learning in Ontario, Canada
By Gary Fenn (OSSTF-FEESO)* The conservative provincial government promoted their online learning plan as “continuing education” for students. In reality, it was emergency remote learning. The government pushed for more synchronous, livestreamed learning sessions with students, rather than allowing students to work at their own pace in an asynchronous way. The Ontario government, like many other provincial governments in Canada, were praising their ability to deliver high quality education using online tools to students across the province. What we discovered was that many students disengaged from online learning as inequities emerged, and became exacerbated by moving to a fully online format. Many students lacked access to reliable internet connections, or did not possess the…
