alzburg Global Seminar and Diplomatic Courier are pleased to launch this new channel focused on Education Transformation as part of our evolving partnership and to support the Salzburg Global Centre for Education Transformation. The channel will publish articles on a regular basis that advance new ideas, advocacy, and approaches for education transformation in line with the mission of the Salzburg Centre.
We are choosing to launch the channel now because we want it to support and help develop ideas that come out of the UN’S Transforming Education Summit taking place just before the UN General Assembly later this month. The UN summit is being convened in response to a global crisis in education – one of equity and inclusion, quality, and relevance. This crisis has been become slowly more visible for many years but has really been highlighted by our collective experiences of multiple and convergent societal, climate, and health crises over the past few years.
These crises have also acted as a catalyst for many long overdue conversations about the power, purpose, and practice of education. As the world starts to move beyond these crises and societies start to address their multiple causes it feels as if there is an exciting window of opportunity for education systems around the world to go through processes of profound transformation. This is long overdue. The lives that young people today will lead are fundamentally different from the lives of young people a hundred years ago, yet the majority of education systems around the world have barely changed. Of course, there have been incremental reforms as subjects and technology have been updated but the fundamentals of pedagogical approaches, the structure of the school day, assessment, and where power resides in the system have not changed.
Many systems are now beginning to grapple with the kind of transformation that they need to initiate in order to provide outcomes that will support all students to thrive in the century ahead. We very much hope that this channel will be a place where new ideas from around the world can be shared and discussed for a global audience.
The channel is a shared project between Diplomatic Courier and Salzburg Global Seminar and is part of the Salzburg Global Centre for Education Transformation, which focuses on influencing systems transformation efforts by developing new approaches to critical and emerging issues in education, including social, emotional and creative skills, psycho-social support and wellbeing, ecological education, and education leadership.
Salzburg Global Seminar is an independent non-profit organization founded in 1947 to challenge current and future leaders to shape a better world. Our programs seek transformative impact on education, culture, health, and peace & justice through global exchange and collaborative leadership.
If you are interested in writing for the channel, then please contact Dominic Regester dregester@salzburgglobal.org or Shane Szarkowski shane@diplomaticourier.org.
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Announcing New Channel: Transforming Education
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September 1, 2022
Salzburg Global Seminar and Diplomatic Courier are pleased to launch a new channel focused on Education Transformation. In this introduction, Dominic Regester explains how this channel will be a place where new ideas around the world can be shared and discussed for a global audience.
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alzburg Global Seminar and Diplomatic Courier are pleased to launch this new channel focused on Education Transformation as part of our evolving partnership and to support the Salzburg Global Centre for Education Transformation. The channel will publish articles on a regular basis that advance new ideas, advocacy, and approaches for education transformation in line with the mission of the Salzburg Centre.
We are choosing to launch the channel now because we want it to support and help develop ideas that come out of the UN’S Transforming Education Summit taking place just before the UN General Assembly later this month. The UN summit is being convened in response to a global crisis in education – one of equity and inclusion, quality, and relevance. This crisis has been become slowly more visible for many years but has really been highlighted by our collective experiences of multiple and convergent societal, climate, and health crises over the past few years.
These crises have also acted as a catalyst for many long overdue conversations about the power, purpose, and practice of education. As the world starts to move beyond these crises and societies start to address their multiple causes it feels as if there is an exciting window of opportunity for education systems around the world to go through processes of profound transformation. This is long overdue. The lives that young people today will lead are fundamentally different from the lives of young people a hundred years ago, yet the majority of education systems around the world have barely changed. Of course, there have been incremental reforms as subjects and technology have been updated but the fundamentals of pedagogical approaches, the structure of the school day, assessment, and where power resides in the system have not changed.
Many systems are now beginning to grapple with the kind of transformation that they need to initiate in order to provide outcomes that will support all students to thrive in the century ahead. We very much hope that this channel will be a place where new ideas from around the world can be shared and discussed for a global audience.
The channel is a shared project between Diplomatic Courier and Salzburg Global Seminar and is part of the Salzburg Global Centre for Education Transformation, which focuses on influencing systems transformation efforts by developing new approaches to critical and emerging issues in education, including social, emotional and creative skills, psycho-social support and wellbeing, ecological education, and education leadership.
Salzburg Global Seminar is an independent non-profit organization founded in 1947 to challenge current and future leaders to shape a better world. Our programs seek transformative impact on education, culture, health, and peace & justice through global exchange and collaborative leadership.
If you are interested in writing for the channel, then please contact Dominic Regester dregester@salzburgglobal.org or Shane Szarkowski shane@diplomaticourier.org.
