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Join us in Buenos Aires for the IV Summit of the Americas to discuss challenges in educational quality, ICT utilization, and combating poverty. Learn about the critical transference of labor competencies through political will and cooperation. Workshop includes lessons from Caribbean initiatives and methodology for curriculum standards. Let's strengthen democratic governance and create jobs to confront poverty.
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The Road Ahead Towards the IV Summit of the Americas and the IV Meeting of Ministers of Education
The Summit and Ministerial Process III Summit of the Americas IV Summit of the Americas Education II Ministerial Education III Ministerial Secondary Ed. and Labor Competencies Education IV Ministerial Follow up II Meeting of the Inter-American Committee on Education I Meeting of the Inter-American Committee on Education
IV Summit of the AmericasBuenos Aires, Argentina “Creating Jobs to Confront Poverty and Strengthen Democratic Governance”
Diagnostic (PRIE-E)Situational Analysis by Sub-region Panel Discussions (Hemispheric Project Coordinators) Challenges in Evaluating Educational Quality Challenges in Utilizing ICTs in Education Education for Work (Increasing employability in the Americas) Education and the Fight Against Poverty Education for Democracy, Human Rights and Peace IV Inter-American Meeting of Ministers of EducationPort of Spain
Objectives Structure of the Workshop Part I Share the lessons learned from past and current Caribbean initiatives in the definition, development and certification of labor competencies, including the inputs and exchange of experiences from Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, and Peru. Part II Facilitate initial training for the development of methodology for developing standards in the curriculum based on competencies.
What do we have toovercome? A modality of transference that implies that: some experiences are better first we learn and then we apply what we learned local knowledge is not relevant the benefit is obtained at the end of the process
What does a critical transference involve? Political will Country 1 for a permanent and direct dialogue: • that results in something unique to the sum of its parts, Academy, Observatories Institutions • that is informed by theory Country 2 Country 3
What does a critical transference involve? Political will Country 1 for a permanent and direct dialogue: • that returns key knowledge to the enrichment and development of national initiatives • that lowers costs • that continuously links theory and practice Country 2 Country 3
What does a critical transference involve? All of the countries have valuable lessons to share Horizontal Cooperation augments the national systems capacity to reflect and learn from ourselves and the experience of others The genuine political will for sharing is as important as what is being shared itself.
“Information can be disseminated but knowledge must be built” Unit for Social Development and Education