Share Paper: Professionals, education, ICTs and technology: partners in co-ownership of inclusive health care provisions in low-to-medium income countries (LMICs).

  1. Ilse Wambacq, Montclair State University, United States
  2. Koen DePryck, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Int Inst of Edu for Development, Institute of Knowledge Management, Belgium
  3. Diana Gaddum-Riedewald, International Institute of Education for Development, Suriname
  4. Maryrose McInerney, Montclair State University, United States
  5. Janet Koehnke, Montclair State University, United States
  6. Joan Besing, besingj@mail.montclair.edu, United States
  7. Jerry Oldenstam, Int Inst of Edu for Development, COVAB, Suriname
Friday, June 28 11:25-11:45 AM Vondelpark

Abstract: Universities are very aware of the attention paid to global education. This pushes them towards a comprehensive education model incorporating global goals for learning. At the same time, global educative goals are increasingly handled at the local level, e.g., in Unesco’s concept of ‘learning cities’ which addresses the “crucial role that cities and local communities can play in achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” This is an attempt to compensate for the less than expected success rate of an approach mainly focusing on policy at the largest possible scale. This renewed attention to the local implies that new educational ...