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Moving toward Social Justice through Crisis and Change
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Stein, Sophia – Childhood Education, 2021
When the COVID-19 virus first made headlines, nobody could have imagined the devastating effect it would have on the world. With children home from school, tens of millions unemployed, and millions losing loved ones, lives around the world have been turned completely upside down. One of the things that has changed the most is the way children are…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics
The Right to Education Index: An Education Innovation
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Krupar, Allyson – Childhood Education, 2018
A fundamental principle of Education Diplomacy is that education is a human right central to the attainment of all other human rights. Monitoring and advocacy tools such as the Right to Education Index serve to mobilize national partnerships to hold governments to account for all children's enrollment in school and enjoyment of the right to…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Access to Education, Civil Rights, Educational Indicators
Power Imbalances and Education Diplomacy
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Farag Mikhail, Phoebe – Childhood Education, 2018
Local, national, and international education policies regarding funding, priorities, curriculum, assessment, and more have a significant effect on all education stakeholders. But do all the stakeholders have the power to make changes? Education Diplomacy as "new diplomacy" in contrast to traditional diplomacy serves to both empower…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Educational Policy, Educational Quality, Educational Change
Organization Spotlight: The Power of an Association in Early Childhood Education and Care: ISSA--An Engine for Advocacy, Capacity Building, and Creating a Growing Learning Community
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Ionescu, Mihaela – Childhood Education, 2015
The International Step by Step Association (ISSA) is an association that believes in learning from each other across cultures and borders, building on each other's strengths, and tapping into the power of a network. Building on the strong legacy of the Open Society Foundations' Step by Step program, ISSA has nurtured a culture of belonging to a…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Advocacy, Capacity Building, Communities of Practice
Issues in Education: U.S. Campaign to Save Our Schools
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Wisneski, Debora – Childhood Education, 2012
Participating in the Save Our School march was an inspiring event, the reverberating impact from which will be long-lasting. The march, which was endorsed by the Executive Board of Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI), was an effort to call awareness to the struggles that public education faces in the United States. The guiding…
Descriptors: Public Education, Global Approach, Educational Principles, Public Opinion
Creating a Climate for Change: The Aztec Experience.
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Kelley, Michael F.; And Others – Childhood Education, 1995
Recounts the experiences of starting a new school designed, built, staffed, and programmed around the following beliefs: all students can be successful learners; all can learn at significantly high levels; research should inform the instructional process; and curriculum content must reflect high expectations for students, though instructional time…
Descriptors: Activism, Advocacy, Change Agents, Change Strategies