The EdHeroes Movement is launched. Its aim: to address the most pressing challenges in education
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ZURICH, September 13, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--
Early September saw the launch of the EdHeroes Movement.
[https://edheroes.foundation/en]. Its aim is to create a global network of
individuals, non-profit organizations, businesses, and government
organizations, bringing together their diverse set of resources in order to
explore and actualize fundamentally new solutions to the challenges education
is facing worldwide. The movement champions new approaches to problems in
education with emphasis on two concepts: putting family interests at the
forefront of education—offering them, protection, support, and a solid
foundation in their journey to success and well-being, and creating a community
that unites people in the joint endeavor of improving both access to education
and its quality.
We can confirm that the EdHeroes Movement Advisory Board
[https://edheroes.foundation/en#3] will contain Safeena Husain
[https://www.educategirls.ngo/Who-We-Are.aspx], Educate Girls (India), Wendy
Kopp [https://teachforall.org/wendy-kopp], Teach For All (USA), Mercedes Mayol
Lassalle
[https://omepworld.org/meet-the-new-world-president-of-omep-mercedes-mayol-lassa
lle/], OMEP (Argentina), Conrad Wolfram [http://www.conradwolfram.com]),
Wolfram Research (UK), Osama Obeidat [https://qrta.edu.jo/en], Queen Rania
Teacher Academy (Jordan), Steven Duggan, UNESCO IITE and Terawe (Ireland),
Harry Patrinos [https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/people/h/harry-patrinos],
World Bank Education (USA), and other leading figures in education.
The EdHeroes Movement will connect individuals and organizations in a dynamic
network and bring together their resources to address the most pressing
challenges education faces in various regions. The members of the movement will
share a common approach to solving problems in education, but will have the
freedom to take the action required for a particular situation in a particular
region. For example, they can establish a local EdHeroes Forum in order to get
their agenda into the public domain and direct specialist knowledge and
resources towards the solution of the key issues in their region. It is planned
that the first local EdHeroes Forum will take place on October 16 in Indonesia.
The first EdHeroes Movement principle is that "education should have family
interests at heart," with the family's main "interest" being "raising a
competent individual, a citizen who can create, love, and make positive
choices."
The ambition to direct the focus of education towards family needs is motivated
by the fact that the pandemic increased the burden on home life. Research
[https://www.bcg.com/publications/2020/helping-working-parents-ease-the-burden-o
f-covid-19] by BCG offers a clear example of this: during the pandemic in the
US, UK, France, Germany, and Italy, parents nearly doubled the time spent on
education and household tasks—from 30 to 57 hours per week. Wendy Kopp, CEO and
Co-founder of Teach For All, is confident that "family should be put at the
center of education." The pandemic helped this idea gain ground: "The pandemic
has strengthened the bond between home and school, between teacher and parent
by giving us an insight into what our children's education evolves on a day to
day basis, and by truly sharing responsibility for the child's growth," says
Steven Duggan, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO IITE, and Vice
President of Terawe Corporation.
The EdHeroes Movement's second principle is creating a community around
educational organizations. The community is a flexible, resilient structure and
its main assets are connectedness and trust, which is what allowed educational
communities to quickly recalibrate and implement new methods during the
pandemic and address the problems its members faced as a result of
self-isolation.
The movement's third principle centers on bringing together diverse material
and specialist resources. The EdHeroes Movement proposes collaboration with
non-profit organizations, businesses, government agencies, private
philanthropists, and anyone who is prepared to invest their time and resources
in educational development. Due to the low entry threshold, it is possible to
bring together previously untapped resources to explore new approaches to SDG
4.
Harry Patrinos, Practice Manager, World Bank Education: "Now, more than ever,
educational progress relies on multiple actors working together. The
philanthropic can contribute to the creation of networks that will support
educational progress worldwide. I support the EdHeroes Movement because I
believe that multiple solutions from multiple actors are needed and I see a
real role for the philanthropic sector."
To take part in the movement, sign the manifesto
[https://edheroes.foundation/en#2] on the website.
For more information, please send an email to: pr@edheroes.foundation
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Source: EdHeroes Foundation
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