Department of Education and Culture
Organization of American States
Report by the Technical Secretariat
V Meeting of Ministers of EducationLenore Yaffee-García, Director
Department of Education and Culture
November 14-16, 2007Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
Department of Education and Culture
Organization of American States
Key Ministerial Mandates
• Education Indicators
• Education for Democratic Citizenship
• Early Childhood Education
• Strengthening the Teaching Professional
• Literacy
• Mobilization of resources, political will, alliances with key actors
Department of Education and Culture
Organization of American States
Education Indicators
We ask the CIE to…:
– Monitor the progress made toward achieving the education goals of the Summits of the Americas, paying special attention to country progress on the goals from the Santiago Summit, and also taking into account the goals of the Dakar Framework for Action and those of Millennium Declaration, in particular by promoting analysis, dissemination, and use in decision-making of the information produced by the Regional Educational Indicators Project (PRIE). (Scarborough Declaration)
Department of Education and Culture
Organization of American States
Department of Education and Culture
Organization of American States
Department of Education and Culture
Organization of American States
Regional Education Indicators Project (PRIE)
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Organization of American States
Education for Democratic Citizenship
Department of Education and Culture
Organization of American States
Education for Democratic Citizenship
“We have fulfilled our committment of creating an Inter-American Program on Education for Democratic Values and Practices. We recognize that peace and democracy are necessary conditions for the exercise of fundamental freedoms and for the growth and development of our nations”.
Declaration of Scarborough
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Research
• Inter-American Journal
• Analytical Reports
• Policy Briefs
Professional Development
Information Exchange
•Distance Education Courses on Creating “Democratic Classrooms”
•Young Scholar Program
•Web Portal
•On-line Bulletins
•Policy Briefs
•Seminars and Workshops
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Organization of American States
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Organization of American States
www.educadem.oas.org
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Democracy Education Bulletins
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Organization of American States
Early Childhood Development and Education
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Early Childhood Development and Education
”We recognize the need to broaden the educational structure to include early childhood education because of its positive impact on the quality of education and on the reduction of inequality.
» Declaration of Scarborough
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Early Childhood Development and Education
• CIE Project (Policies, Strategies) ‘06-09– Topics: 0 to 3, Transitions– Research– 2 Major International Symposia– Cooperation with organizations, civil society– Web Resources
OAS/Van Leer Foundation Project- Rural, Indigenous, Border Communities
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Strengthening the Teaching Profession
• “We recognize the fundamental role of teachers and prioritize their professional development as a key factor for learning and for the development of our societies. We therefore urge the member countries to act jointly to assure the adoption of mechanisms which help countries in the development of teacher capacity and retention.”
» Declaration of Scarborough
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INTER-AMERICAN TEACHER EDUCATOR NETWORK
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Organization of American States
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Organization of American States
Literacy
“We recognize the necessity of working on the high illiteracy rates that exist within our countries in the region, for which we propose to consider a design of a regional program of literacy and ask the OAS to study this possibility..”
Declaration of Scarborough 2005
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Organization of American States
Mobilization of resources, political will, inter-agency
cooperation, and participation of civil society
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Organization of American States
Mobilization of Resources
• OAS “Subfund” education (Res. 831)• OAS FEMCIDI• OAS Human Development Fund• Foundations • NGOs• Governments (members, observers)• Private sector, Others
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Organization of American States
Some CIE Partners International Organizations
– UNICEF– Inter-American
Institute on Human Rights
– UNESCO-OREALC– World Bank– Inter-American
Development Bank– Convenio Andrés
Bello– The Commonwealth
Secretariat– Organization of
Iberoamerican States– International Labor
Organization (ILO)
…and others
Research Institutions– Instituto Nacional de
Evaluación de la Educación (México)
– CIPECC (Argentina)– RTI International– University of
Maryland– Universidad
Pedagógica Nacional (Colombia)
– Brunel University, Reino Unido
- Universidad of Indiana, Universidad of Toronto, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
- Universidad Central de Chile
- University of Trinidad and Tobago
- University of West Indies
…and others…
Civil Society– B Van Leer Foundation– World Links – Inter-American
Organization of Higher Education (IOHE-OUI)
– PREAL– Center for Civic
Education – Conciencia, Argentina– Global Alliance for Justice
Education– National (US) Center for
Learning and Citizenship– CENDI, Mexico– AMEI– OMEP– Human Rights Education
Association HREA, USA…and others…
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Organization of American States
Communciations: CIE Website and its Virtual Discussion
Forumhttp://www.oas.org/udse/cie/espanol/fr_bien.htmlhttp://www.oas.org/udse/cie/ingles/fr_bien.html
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Organization of American States
Website, “DEC”www.sedi.oas.org/dec
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Organization of American States
Department of Education and Culture
Organization of American States
Challenges• Many Mandates• Limited Human and Financial
Resources• Balancing the Technical, the Political• Active Participation of Countries• Sustainability of Actions• How to Measure Impact
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Opportunities
• V Ministerial Meeting– Partnerships– Election CIE authorities, Exec. Cttee.
• General Assembly 2008 (Colombia)• Summit of the Americas 2009 (T&T)
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