#globaleducation — Public Fediverse posts

🌍🏆 The University of Cologne’s CEMS MIM once again shines in the Financial Times Masters in Management Ranking! 🎓✨ #1 in Germany and #8 worldwide for International Course Experience, #34 globally overall and #3 in Germany. Since 2022, the programme has climbed 20 places internationally. 🚀🌐
Read more: https://uni.koeln/KYT9A

#CEMS #CEMSMIM #UniCologne #WiSoCologne #FinancialTimes #MastersInManagement #InternationalManagement #GlobalEducation #StudyAbroad #BusinessSchool #Cologne 💙🎉

🌍🏆 The University of Cologne’s CEMS MIM once again shines in the Financial Times Masters in Management Ranking! 🎓✨ #1 in Germany and #8 worldwide for International Course Experience, #34 globally overall and #3 in Germany. Since 2022, the programme has climbed 20 places internationally. 🚀🌐
Read more: https://uni.koeln/KYT9A

#CEMS #CEMSMIM #UniCologne #WiSoCologne #FinancialTimes #MastersInManagement #InternationalManagement #GlobalEducation #StudyAbroad #BusinessSchool #Cologne 💙🎉

School Kits, Big Impact: Inside El Salvador’s Quiet Education Push

Dear Cherubs, there’s something oddly powerful about a cardboard box that doesn’t contain chaos, delivery delays, or “please assemble yourself” furniture instructions. In El Salvador, it contains something far rarer: opportunity, neatly folded and mildly creased.

Across the country, thousands of children have been receiving full school kits—uniforms, shoes, books, stationery, backpacks, and in some cases digital devices—aimed at reducing the everyday friction that keeps education just out of reach. According to UNICEF, such school supply initiatives are widely used in developing education systems to improve attendance and reduce dropout rates, especially among lower-income families.

THE BOX THAT CHANGED THE MORNING ROUTINE

On paper, it sounds simple: give kids the tools they need for school. In practice, it’s a quiet reshaping of daily life. No scrambling for notebooks. No “borrow a pen again?” conversations. Just a child getting ready for school without the background noise of scarcity.

The initiative has been associated with government-led education support programs in El Salvador under President Nayib Bukele’s administration, which has prioritised visible social interventions alongside broader security reforms. As noted by thisclaimer.com in its coverage of public welfare initiatives, such programs often carry a dual effect: practical support for families and a strong symbolic message about inclusion.

One widely shared moment showed a young girl opening her kit and reacting with visible excitement. Not because it was luxurious, but because it was enough. And sometimes, enough is revolutionary in its own quiet, inconvenient way.

DIGNITY, BUT MAKE IT PRACTICAL

Here’s the uncomfortable part: school supplies shouldn’t feel like a headline. They should feel like background noise. Yet in many regions, they still function as a financial barrier disguised as a shopping list.

Critics of large-scale distribution programs often point out logistical challenges and long-term sustainability questions. Fair. But supporters argue that immediate access matters more than theoretical perfection when children are currently sitting in classrooms without basic tools.

And there’s a dry irony here: we live in a world where high-tech solutions for education are debated in conference rooms, while the simplest fix—actually giving kids what they need to learn—still qualifies as a policy achievement.

The emotional centre of this story isn’t political branding or viral clips. It’s a child seeing possibility packaged in a backpack and not having to translate it into something else to understand it.

Whether one views these initiatives as transformative policy or practical optics, the result on the ground is hard to ignore: fewer barriers between a child and a classroom.

And maybe that’s the real headline nobody prints loudly enough: sometimes progress doesn’t arrive as disruption. Sometimes it just arrives on time.

Sources list:
UNICEF — https://www.unicef.org/
World Bank Education Overview — https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/education
Government of El Salvador — https://www.presidencia.gob.sv/
BBC News Education Coverage — https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cp7r8vgl2lgt

🌍 Celebrate World Interfaith Harmony Week with film! We're highlighting our teaching resources for global education films to bring World Religions alive in your classroom. Get classroom-ready lesson plans to teach about major world religions with award-winning films like He Named Me Malala, Schindler's List, The Story of God with Morgan Freeman and more. For grades 4-12, higher ed, adult ed.

Explore these amazing films and free teaching materials at the link:

https://journeysinfilm.org/teach-about-world-religions-with-film/?utm_source=LinkedIn&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Interfaith+Week&utm_term=world+religions&utm_content=link

#WorldInterfaithHarmonyWeek #InterfaithHarmonyWeek #ReligiousLiteracy #WorldReligions #Education #Homeschooling #Edutooters #SocialStudies #GlobalEducation #Movies

🎁 The best gifts come from the heart. Give your students the gift of WADJDA, the delightful story of a convention-defying Saudi girl whose heart is set on the impossible goal of getting a bicycle, from Saudi Arabia's first woman director Haifaa Al Mansour. It's a great film for grades 6-12 & also for watching as a family!

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/wadjda/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=December+25&utm_content=Link

#HaifaaAlMansour #SaudiArabia #GlobalEducation #WorldReligions #Education #Movies #Homeschooling #Edutooters #Islam #Wadjda #MENA #ReligiousLiteracy

🍎 Happy World Teachers' Day! We're spotlighting 5 heartwarming films that celebrate educators from around the world. Each film offers an inspiring story + reminds us to appreciate & celebrate teachers today & every day.

Get our free teaching resources to help you share these films with your learning community. Learn more:

https://religionmatters.org/2024/10/04/honoring-world-teachers-with-free-film-resources-for-educators/

#WorldTeachersDay #InternationalTeachersDay #Education #Edutooters #Teachers #Teaching #ReligiousEducation #ReligiousLiteracy #ReligiousStudies #Judaism #Islam #Catholicism #Christianity #Hinduism #WorldReligions #GlobalEducation @educators @edutooters @film

We're boosting this Call for Proposals for our friends at Religion Matters - https://religionmatters.org/. They do good work supporting educators who are teaching about world religions — and their editor is a joy to work with.

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Call for Proposals

The Religion Matters Blog offers a venue for religious studies educators and scholars to share their views on why religion matters today:

- K-16 Perspectives on religious literacy in the classroom.
- Lesson Plans for K-12 Educators.
- Syllabuses for Higher Education.
- Religion in the Public Sphere.

If you are interested in submitting to the Religions Matter Blog, complete the submission form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PWAWSWvSqrIV9ac4uUCg8X5AJqImVurn4NFERwEl2FE/viewform?edit_requested=true.

Boosts for reach appreciated!

#Education #Edutooters #ReligiousStudies #ReligiousLiteracy #GlobalEducation #Buddhism #Christianity #Hinduism #Islam #Judaism #WorldReligions @education @edutooters @religion @religiousstudies @academicchatter

Our friend Tim Hall of https://religionmatters.org/ just shared an exciting new preprint on religious literacy as part of global education:

"Amplifying Religious Literacy Education through the Frameworks of Global Competence".

This is a great read and a great resource for anyone who cares about global education and global cultural competence.

Download it for free here: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202408.0563/v1

#ReligiousLiteracy #ReligiousStudies #GlobalEducation #GlobalCompetency #CulturalStudies #CrossCulturalEducation #CrossCulturalUnderstanding #Education #Edutooters #InterculturalCompetence @education @edutooters @academicchatter

Our Executive Director Jen Fischer shares recommendations + free resources for countering Islamophobia through film for Religion Matters.

https://religionmatters.org/2022/11/18/countering-islamophobia-through-film-recommendations-resources/

#Islamophobia #Islam #AntibiasEducation #Education #GlobalEducation #Religion #ReligiousLiteracy #ReligiousEducation #ReligiousStudies #WorldReligions #SocialStudies #SocialEmotionalLearning #K12 #K16 #HigherEd #Homeschooling

Let's talk about Religious Literacy as a part of Social Studies and Global Education.

You may have caught the news that Oklahoma's chief education officer just announced that all Oklahoma schools are required to incorporate the Bible and the Ten Commandments in their curricula, effective immediately.
via https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/us/oklahoma-schools-bible-curriculum/index.html

We are a 501(c)3 non-profit and thus we cannot and will not discuss the political aspects of this statement. (Please likewise keep that out of our comments.)

However we will say that we are big fans of global education and literacy in world religions.

If you are a teacher who is looking for resources to balance out your curriculum, we have some great tools to help you teach about world religions with film, which we will set out in the thread below. All of our resources are free, always.

#Oklahoma #OklahomaTeachers #Education #GlobalEducation #Religion #ReligiousLiteracy #ReligiousEducation #ReligiousStudies #WorldReligions #K12 #K16 #HigherEd 1/3