Virtual Launch: The Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Governance of Education

Fri 15 Nov 2024

3:00 PM – 4:30 PM GMT

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Join the Comparative Education and International Development (CEID) Research Group as we host the virtual launch of the latest special issue from the International Review of Education. Articles in this issue explore how global governance actors shaped the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how the SDGs act as an independent mechanism in influencing nation-states. Editors and article authors will share overviews of their work. The full special issue can be found here.

This virtual launch will take place on Friday 15 November from 15:00 to 16:30 UK Time. An email with the link to join will be shared with those registered the evening before the event.

Event Agenda

• Chair: Daniel Shephard (University of Edinburgh)
• Editor Introduction: Sotiria Grek (University of Edinburgh)
• Panel 1 Presentations
  • Elaine Unterhalter (University College London): ‘Soft power in complicated and complex education systems: Gender, education and global governance in organisational responses to SDG 4’
  • Jhon Jairo Ocampo (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): ‘Transforming education or transforming the fourth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 4)?’
  • Antonia Wulff (Education International): ‘Sneaking out the back door? Interrogating the role of governments in the global governance of SDG 4’
• Question and Answer
• Panel 2 Presentations
  • William C. Smith (University of Edinburgh): ‘Prioritisation of indicators in SDG 4: Voluntary national reviews as a tool of soft governance’
  • Shoko Yamada (Nagoya University): ‘The synchronic and diachronic evolution of key themes around SDG 4 before and after 2015: From a quantitative analysis of web-downloaded texts’
  • Teklu Abate Bekele (The American University in Cairo): ‘The Sustainable Development Goals as mechanisms of educational governance in Africa’
• Question and Answer
• Discussant: Karen Mundy (University of Toronto)