Issue #7 - Transforming Education Newsletter from the Global Citizenship Foundation
“A gender-equal society would be one where the word ‘gender’ does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.”— Gloria Steinem Studies on the patterns of gender development highlight that the concept of gender in children can be formed as early as 30 months. It is in early childhood that children acquire gender stereotypes, norms, and identities. Early childhood learning and experiences through gendered interaction and conduct at home and at school negatively affect children, shaping strong biases that impact their lives and future. For example, what jobs are most suitable for men and women. Fostering gender-inclusive early childhood education enables young children to freely develop to their full potential according to their individual talents and interests, irrespective of their gender.In the 7th Issue of the Transforming Education Newsletter, we present to you Dr. Chandrika Devarakonda‘s article from the .ed Magazine — a quarterly curated issue-based digital magazine for educators. Read this featured article of the week to know what you need to start, stop, and continue in your efforts to ensure that you bring in gender-inclusive early childhood education, the right 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
Shaping Intentional Gender Diversity and Inclusion Practices in Education
Educators’ role is crucial, irrespective of the presence of diversity in the setting, to facilitate positive attitudes to diversity. Children should be made aware, provide opportunities, and be prepared to accept, acknowledge, value, and celebrate diversity from the perspective of a wide range of groups related to ethnicity, cultures, socio-economic groups, gender, and linguistic and religious groups. They must ensure they trust others and feel empowered. Does it sound idealistic?
Educators need to present themselves as positive role models by treating everyone (colleagues, parents, and families of all the children) with respect. Inclusion is related to all children and young people, their families, and staff members in schools. Further, inclusion must focus not only on enabling all children to be present, be accepted, and given opportunities for participation in all the activities but also on...[Read Full Story Here]
🎫 Upcoming Global Events
💡 International Camp Engage for Educators
📆 October 12, 2021
🏛 Hosted by Nearpod
🎟 Ticket: Free Entry
✅ To know more, visit:
💡 International Conference: Safe Schools Declaration — www.globalpartnership.org
📆 October 25-27, 2021
🏛 Hosted by Global Education Summit
🎟 Ticket: Free Entry
✅ To know more, visit:
💡 Online Event: Perspectives on Enhancing the Experiences of EAL & Refugee Children
📆 November 12, 2021
🏛 Hosted by Bowden Education
🎟 Ticket: Free Entry
✅ To know more, visit:
💫 Author Spotlight
Dr. Stephen Reysen is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA. He teaches classes related to social psychology, intergroup relations, and multicultural diversity. His research interests include topics related to personal (e.g., threats to interpersonal public identity) and social identity (e.g., global citizenship).
Know more about Dr. Reysen here.
🤩 Global Citizenship Foundation Events and Updates
Join us as the 17th Online Educational Leadership Forum Panel Discussion as we discuss with leading practitioners and experts on "How can we foster Social and Emotional Learning for student success?". This panel discussion will discuss the importance of students’ social and emotional developments, mental health, and well-being are more and more frequently mentioned in recent years, we engage in this discussion to deepen our understanding of SEL, a vital learning process that contributes a lot to the above growths of students.
📆 October 21, 2021
🏛 Hosted by Global Citizenship Foundation
🎟 Ticket: Free Entry
💡 Masterclass on "Hybrid Learning And Assessment"
Hybrid learning is much more than the use and adaptation of technology. Unpack pedagogies, content delivery strategies, and technologies to leverage the power and potential of hybrid learning at the Online Educational Leadership Forum (OELF) Masterclass on Hybrid Learning and Assessments.
Prepare for educating young people effectively in the pandemic and beyond and improve students’ learning experiences. Join us at the Masterclass on November 24, 2021, as we bust the myths, address the challenges, discover the right resources, and gain insights from the best practices ensuring effective implementation and assessment of hybrid teaching and learning.
🏛 Hosted by Global Citizenship Foundation
🎟 Ticket: Free Entry
✅ To know more, visit:
RECORDED SESSION
💡 [RECORDING AVAILABLE] 16th OELF Panel Discussion: How Can We Ensure Effective Blended-Learning?
This panel discussion is all the more crucial in the context of the challenges posed by the pandemic to the education of generations of young people. As educators shift to newer ways of teaching and learning, we engaged in this discussion to deepen our understanding and gained insights on the challenges, strategies, and best practices in effectively implementing blended teaching and learning.
🔴 Subscribe to the Channeland watch the Recorded Webcast
Help us do this better
Please help us in helping you better by providing us feedback, suggestions, inputs, and ideas on ways to improve this newsletter. Feel free to write to us here.
Thank you for investing your time to read this newsletter. Here’s my question to you — What 21st-century skill should youth develop? Share your thoughts with me on my Twitter/send me an email.
Once again, thank you for everything you are doing to transform education for human flourishing! If you liked the newsletter, do forward it to your colleagues, and let them know they can subscribe here.
I am looking forward to you joining me in our next newsletter!
Please stay safe and do take care!
Invested in your success,
— Aaryan Salman
Editor, .ed Magazine
President, Global Citizenship Foundation