Research insights from the Global Education Monitoring Report Fellowship program

Group Submission Type: Formal Panel Session

Proposal

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their indicators’ framework are rapidly shifting the priorities in the education sector worldwide. The education portion of the SDGs (SDG 4) has a mandate to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”. To this end the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report initiated a Fellowship Programme, funded by the Open Society Foundation, to support researchers who aim to bring a novel perspective to comparative and international education development to aid the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, the global education goal.

The objective of the panel session is to highlight the GEM Report Fellowship Program’s opportunities, and the contributions being made by the GEM Report 2021 Fellows to advancing knowledge on critical policy issues relevant to the global goals.

The Panel begins with a presentation by Leena Bhattacharya, a PhD student at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research in Mumbai, will look at indicators helping evaluate the Right to Education Act of 2009 in India. The second presentation from Danqing Yin, a PhD student in the Education Leadership and Policy Studies program at the School of Education and Human Sciences, University of Kansas, will look at a critical issue in light of school closures due to COVID-19: the importance, evolution, relevance and policy issues related to home schooling. Her research will look specifically at global trends and insights emerging from the United States. The third paper by Dr. Daniel Pop is on trends in virtual education, more specifically on principals forms of instruction in a learning environment where teacher and student are separated by time or space, or both, and course content is provided through course management applications, multimedia resources, the Internet, videoconferencing, etc. Mr. Afzan Munir will present findings from his co-authored work with Saba Saeed on the analysis of the effects of COVID-19 and technology on early childhood education students and educators in Ethiopia and Pakistan. Finally, Dr. Emmanuel Manyasa, the Executive Director of Usawa Agenda, will then present his Fellow project on assessing the implementation of the ICT policy in education, and its consequences for equity in access to quality, with a focus on Kenya.

Sub Unit

• Globalization & Education SIG

Chair

• Priyadarshani Joshi, UNESCO

Individual Presentations

• Changes in School Completion Rate of Children in India: Examining the Right to Education Act, 2009 - Leena Bhattacharya, IGIDR

• The Importance and Relevance of Home Education: Global Trends and Insights from the United States - Danqing Yin, University of Kansas

• COVID-19 School Closures: a natural experiment in technology adoption - Daniel Pop, EDRC

• Coping with COVID-19 in Global South: Evidence from Pakistan and Ethiopia on use of technology by ECCE students and workforce - Muhammad Afzan Munir, Independent Researcher and Consultant; Saba Saeed, Idara-E-Taleem-O-Aagahi (Ita)

• The impact of ICT in education policies on ICT integration in education in Africa: The case of Kenya - Emmanuel Manyasa, Usawa Agenda

Discussant

• Fernanda Gándara, School-to-School International