OLE Announces Creation of International Panels on Core Themes for Quality Basic Education
24 December 2009, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. OLE International today announced the creation of a series of international panels on what it has identified as the core themes of a quality basic education that should be universally available. We are actively seeking members from Asia, Africa and Latin America as well as from Europe and North America, who can contribute to the work of these panels.
What will the panels do? Each Panel will responsible for:
a) Determining the core resources concerning their theme that should be available to all children;
b) Identifying theme-related resources that are of high quality and are, or could become, openly accessible on OLE’s online Billion Kids Library;
c) Developing ways to fill the gaps in quality open resources concerning their theme that are needed;
d) Monitoring the accessibility of these resources throughout the world;
e) Advocating for universal access to quality educational resources concerning their core theme.
Such resources should emphasize and integrate both concepts and activities and should be open and free and in a form that is easily adaptable for the local conditions of a nation or region. OLE International will make the resources identified by these panels accessible through its online Billion Kids Library.
What panels are being developed now? Two Panels are currently under development:
Human Rights and Responsibilities. Emily Kraznor, former member of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, is organizing this panel.
Conflict. Larry Dieringer, Executive Director of Educators for Social Responsibility, is organizing this panel.
What additional panels will be developed? OLE is seeking leadership and members for additional panels that will be organized concerning such core themes as: Nutrition, Food and Farming, Personal and Public Health, Environment, Entrepreneurship, Science and Technology, Community and Living Democracy, Art, Music and Culture, Numbers and Analysis, Reading and Inquiry, Oral and Written Creation.
What can I do? To indicate an interest in contributing to one or more of these panels and to ask for more information go to: