CIES 2017: Problematizing (In) Equality: The Promise of Comparative and International Education
Educate A Child (EAC) joined colleagues from around the world at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Conference to discuss one of the most pressing challenges in education: inequality. EAC presented a poster session and two panel discussions on March 6th, 8th and 9th, 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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Poster Session: Acting Differently to Make a Difference – Problematizing: Development and Innovation
Monday, March 6
This moderated visual display outlined key principles that have underpinned EAC’s work since inception and reviewed strategies that have achieved significant results, such as focusing on the most marginalized, utilizing a rights-based approach, scaling, and leveraging resources.
Presenter: Sabrina Hervey, Senior Education Specialist, EAC
Acting Differently to Make a Difference - Poster.pdf
Panel Discussion: Out of School Children – Who They Are, Why They’re Excluded, and How They Can Be Reached: Experience from Educate A Child, Qatar
Wednesday, March 8
Based on current experience with 59 projects in 48 countries, this panel discussed the issue of out of school children, the scale of the problem, who the out of school children are, where they are, and the main reasons for their exclusion. Today, there are approximately 61 million children at the primary level who are not is school, despite the global commitment to universal primary education by 2015 as articulated in the Millennium Development Goals.
Chair: Dr Mary Joy Pigozzi, Executive Director, EAC
Presenter: Dr Nicholas Burnett, Results for Development Institute
Presenter: Sabrina Hervey, Senior Education Specialist, EAC
Presenter: Dr Karen Bryner, Director of the Technical Department, EAC
Out of School Children (OOSC): Global Costs and Investment Trends
Challenges and Barriers that Exclude OOSC from Education Systems
Panel Discussion: Diversifying Educational Opportunities to Ensure the Inclusion of the Most Marginalized
Thursday, March 9
Inclusion is often presented as highly problematic — a challenge that is difficult to overcome and takes a great deal of time to remedy. This panel acknowledged the challenges of long-term reform, but also presented evidence that models for inclusion are s쳮ding and provide alternatives to exclusion.
Chair: Dr Mary Joy Pigozzi, Executive Director, EAC
Presenter: Michael Morrissey, Sr. Education Advisor, EAC
Presenter: Dr Caroline Dyer, University of Leeds
Presenter: Barron Segar, U.S. Fund for UNICEF
Diversifying Educational Opportunities to Ensure the Inclusion of the Most Marginalized
Ensuring High Quality Primary Education for Children from Mobile Populations
Education Opportunities for IDPs and Refugees: Self-Learning
Download all EAC resource materials, abstracts and presentations for the CIES Conference