The equitable education online course aims to educate, raise awareness and build capacity on ten core aspects of equitable education, why they are important, and what can be done in order to implement them in practice. It is directed at a broad audience of education experts and practitioners, namely policy-makers, government officials, NGOs/CBOs in the education sector, educators and university students.
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The course will be composed of short, narrated videos, with accompanying exercises, collaborative discussions, quizzes, worksheets, personal reflections and suggestions for further reading.
Equity and Inclusion in Education -online professional development course on equitable and inclusive education.
This course provides an introduction, raises awareness and builds capacity on ten core aspects of equitable education, why they are important, and especially what can be done in order to implement them in practice. Course equips you with the mindset, knowledge and skills to be the CHANGEMAKER for equitable and inclusive education and learn how to narrow down the disparities in your own context.
All the learners should be supported based on their needs to reach same educational outcomes to realize their right to education. Course modules guide transformation of education across different levels; global, national, subnational, local and community levels and through various different expertise from policy, financing, leadership, to classroom context, utilization of learner centered pedagogies, technology, data and partnerships. This will lead to better educational outcomes for all and returns for investment to education.
Course contents are practical, applicable, offering models, strategies and tools for implementation. Our content is directed at a broad audience of education experts and practitioners, namely policy-makers, government officials, NGOs/CBOs in the education sector, educators and students of any of these disciplines – open to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
What you'll learn
As a result of taking the EE online course, users are expected to be able to:
- Explain the key concepts of inclusion,
- equity, and marginalization in education
- Justify why EE concepts are important
- Identify how to apply EE concepts in their context
- Implement innovative approaches to equitable education
- Advocate to achieve more inclusive and equitable education
Syllabus
Module 1: What is equitable education? (Dr. Grisana Punpeng, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University)
Chapter 1: What is equitable education?
Chapter 2: Why is equitable education so important?
Chapter 3: How is equitable education implemented in practice?
Module 2: Equitable education laws and policies (Dr. Kraiyos Patrawart, PhD, Managing Director, Equitable Education Fund
Chapter 1: How is equitable education is reflected in laws and policies?
Chapter 2: What are the law and policy gaps in equitable education?
Chapter 3: How can a rights-based perspective be applied to influence equitable education laws and policies?
Module 3: Innovative financing for Equitable Education (Dr. Tirnud Paichayontvijit, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, Ramkhamhaeng University
Chapter 1: What is equitable education financing and resource allocation?
Chapter 2: What are the different financing concepts, models and mechanisms?
Chapter 3: How can innovative financial approaches help lessen disparities and increase equity?
Module 4: Decentralized education provision (Dr. Grisana Punpeng, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University)
Chapter 1: Why is decentralized equity education important?
Chapter 2: How can decentralized equity education be achieved?
Chapter 3: What can you do to facilitate decentralized equity education?
Module 5: Education leadership (Leonie Nagarajan, Co-Founder, EQator)
Chapter 1: Leadership in implementing equitable and inclusive education, and why it is important for everyone
Chapter 2: How does leadership enable successful equitable and inclusive education?
Chapter 3: What can you do to facilitate leadership of equity and inclusive education in your context?
Module 6: Teacher professional development (Leonie Nagarajan, Co-Founder, EQator)
Chapter 1: How do teacher qualifications, skills, and standards help equity and inclusion in education?
Chapter 2: What approaches can establish, develop and support teacher professional competencies?
Chapter 3: How is the Critically Reflective Practitioner approach to teacher professional development useful?
Module 7: Equitable and inclusive education in the classroom (Dr. Linda Yeh, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Learning Sciences and Education, Thammasat University)
Chapter 1: What does equitable and inclusive education in the classroom mean ?
Chapter 2: What does learner-centred learning look like in practice, and what difference does it make?
Chapter 3: Who is most affected by a lack of equity and inclusion in education?
Module 8: Skills Development and Lifelong learning (Ilja Riekki, Lifelong Learning and Literacy, UNESCO Asia Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, Bangkok)
Chapter 1: Lifelong learning: Developing skills for life and work
Chapter 2: Adult Learning and Education & Lifelong Learning system
Chapter 3: Our response and contribution to education and training change
Module 9: Data and technology for Equitable Education (Bunnawoot Bhuntuvech, Managing Director of EdusoftX)
Chapter 1: What are the data and technology gaps?
Chapter 2: What are the different data approaches and technologies available?
Chapter 3: How can data and technology increase equity and reduce disparities?
Module 10: Partnership for effective collaboration (Aarti Saihjee, Chief of Education, UNICEF Thailand)
Chapter 1: Why are partnerships so important for equitable education?
Chapter 2: What are the different models and levels of effective partnerships?
Chapter 3: How can partnerships be harnessed and applied effectively?
