Issue #11 - Transforming Education Newsletter from the Global Citizenship Foundation
Issue #11 - Transforming Education Newsletter from the Global Citizenship Foundation
“The current crisis should serve as a wakeup call regarding the urgency for increased financing and support of scientific research and collaboration.This concerns not only the natural sciences, but also the social and human and sciences.”— Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCOSocial and Emotional Learning (SEL) is one of the three core domains of Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and is critical to helping young people to become active and engaged global citizens. What makes SEL and GCED transformative is also how they place the individual and the society in harmony with each other. They concentrate on what Paulo Freire termed as Conscientization — focussing on developing an in-depth understanding of the world and engaging in global issues with critical consciousness. In Issue 11 of the Transforming Education Newsletter, we present to you Dr. Erik Jon Byker’s article from the .ed Magazine — a quarterly curated issue-based digital magazine for educators. The feature article this week focuses on finding a common ground between global education and socio-emotional learning to develop global citizens with the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes to transform themselves and their societies.Read the featured article of the week to know how the contours of SEL align with the development of globally competent citizens. Dr. Byker asserts that "there is great potential for framing SEL as an act of critical consciousness that guides global citizens to read and rewrite the world through taking mindful action in a collective way."Also, check out the 🗓 upcoming global events, our 💫 author spotlight, along with the 🗞news and updates from the Global Citizenship Foundation below.Do scroll towards the end of the newsletter to know how you can help me and my team :)
🌟 Featured Article
A Quest for Common Ground — Global Education and Social-Emotional Learning
SEL is about mindfulness and developing a consciousness in regards to one’s emotional well-being as well as to the planet’s well-being.
I begin with a vignette that I remember as if it happened only yesterday. It was last October 2020, and my two children were in the middle of virtual learning sessions because our local public school district was still in a lock-down due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Each Friday, we discussed the highlights of their week and my youngest explained how, “social and emotional learning is always the best part of the week because it was fun, a time to breathe easy and be at peace.” I am thankful that the school counselors made time each week for social-emotional learning and supported the students through the Covid-19 pandemic. The value of…[Read Full Story Here]
🎫 Upcoming Global Events
💡 International Education Week (IEW) and Global Education Week
📆 November 15 - 18, 2021 (Multiple Dates Available)
🏛 Hosted by AFS Intercultural Programs
🎟 Ticket: Free Entry
✅ To know more, visit:
💡 Online Event: Introducing the Equality and Equity Toolkit
📆 November 30, 2021 (Multiple Dates Available)
🏛 Hosted by Connect
🎟 Ticket: Free Entry
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💡 Education Summit: RewirEd Summit
📆 December 12-14, 2021
🏛 Hosted by RewirEd
🎟 Ticket: Free Entry
💫 Author Spotlight
Dr. Fei Victor Lim is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is interested in how and what we should teach learners in today’s digital age. He researches and teaches multiliteracies, multimodal discourse analyses, and digital learning. Dr. Lim has experience as a Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator of several research grants. He serves as a consultant with the World Bank on digital literacies projects in Africa. He is an editor of Multimodality and Society and an associate editor of Asia Pacific Journal of Education, and Designs for Learning.
Know more about Dr. Fei Victor Lim here.
🤩 Global Citizenship Foundation Events and Updates
💫 .ed Magazine Mainstreaming Social and Emotional Learning OUT NOW!
The .ed Magazine is an issue-based quarterly digital publication that brings changemakers, policymakers, educators, and thought-leaders together to contribute to this initiative. This latest edition focuses on mainstreaming Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), including SEL strategies, challenges, approaches, models, and ideas for educators to deliver more impactful and effective SEL.
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Please stay safe and do take care!
Invested in your success,
— Aaryan Salman
Editor, .ed Magazine
President, Global Citizenship Foundation