Department of Education and CultureOrganization of American States Report by the Technical Secretariat V Meeting of Ministers of Education Lenore Yaffee-García,

Department of Education and Culture

Organization of American States

Report by the Technical Secretariat

V Meeting of Ministers of EducationLenore Yaffee-García, Director


November 14-16, 2007Cartagena de Indias, Colombia



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



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)







Regional Education Indicators Project (PRIE)



Education for Democratic Citizenship



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



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





www.educadem.oas.org



Democracy Education Bulletins



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




• 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



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



INTER-AMERICAN TEACHER EDUCATOR NETWORK





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



Mobilization of resources, political will, inter-agency

cooperation, and participation of civil society



Mobilization of Resources

• OAS “Subfund” education (Res. 831)• OAS FEMCIDI• OAS Human Development Fund• Foundations • NGOs• Governments (members, observers)• Private sector, Others



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…



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



Website, “DEC”www.sedi.oas.org/dec





Challenges• Many Mandates• Limited Human and Financial

Resources• Balancing the Technical, the Political• Active Participation of Countries• Sustainability of Actions• How to Measure Impact



Opportunities

• V Ministerial Meeting– Partnerships– Election CIE authorities, Exec. Cttee.

• General Assembly 2008 (Colombia)• Summit of the Americas 2009 (T&T)

Documents

Department of Education and CultureOrganization of American States Report by the Technical Secretariat V Meeting of Ministers of Education Lenore Yaffee-García,