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IIEP Strategic Debate: It takes a village - and technology - to educate a child

Join us in Paris, France or watch it online.

Teacher training, leadership training, and curricular reforms are often talked about as remedies to overcome the learning crisis. But what if the model of the school as we know it is simply inadequate and outdated?

Join our next Strategic Debate on 25 June 2018 with Madhav Chavan, co-founder of Pratham Education Foundation. His organization has been working with the school system in India for two decades, primarily in underprivileged urban and rural communities. His talk will focus on a new afterschool initiative that relies on children learning groups with help from parents, local volunteers, and information technology resources and tools. While still in its early stages, this hybrid-learning programme is pointing in interesting directions to create open learning spaces for lifelong education.

Suzanne Grant Lewis, Director of IIEP-UNESCO, will serve as moderator for this discussion.

When: Monday, June 25, 2018
4pm – 6pm (CEST)
Where: IIEP-UNESCO auditorium
7-9 rue Eugene Delacroix, 75116 Paris

This event will be held in English with simultaneous interpretation into French (only in English via livestream)

WATCH THE WEBCAST

Not in Paris? We will be livestreaming this debate (4pm CEST). Make sure to register here to receive a reminder and link to the web cast.

Join the debate on Twitter with the #StrategicDebate and @IIEP_UNESCO.

There is widespread recognition of the global learning crisis, with millions of children and youth unable to perform basic skills in reading, writing, and math. What is less clear is what children need to learn and how we can foster all-inclusive quality education for a rapidly changing future. In pursuit of SDG 4, we must look beyond the obvious and debate new ideas and strategies that will ultimately redefine learning while ensuring accessibility for all.

To help advance these conversations, IIEP is pleased to announce its 2018 Strategic Debate series. Under the title, Meeting SDG 4’s learning objectives: looking beyond the obvious, an array of experts in the education field will come to IIEP over the coming months to debate salient issues around SDG 4 and put forth new solutions and ideas on what is really required to make this bold vision for education a reality.