Their Mission is to promote and support the optimal education, development, and well-being of children worldwide. We have consultative status with the United Nations.
Their Vision is that every child in every nation will have access to a quality education. This education will prepare children to become responsible and engaged citizens and ready them for life in a changing world.
The timing of my review of this website was perfect to find out that they just launch a new website for Education Diplomacy. The following information is directly from the ACEI website.
Association for Childhood Education International Launches Education Diplomacy Website
WASHINGTON, D.C., USA (5 March 2014)—The Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) has launched the Center for Education Diplomacy, an online hub for education diplomacy, a concept ACEI has been developing since 2009. The new site, available at www.educationdiplomacy.org, will serve as an information source for all those interested in this emerging concept.
When asked about the new concept of education diplomacy being advanced by ACEI, Diane Whitehead, ACEI’s Executive Director stated, “Both education and diplomacy are needed in order to achieve a more stable world that offers opportunities for the healthy development of individuals and societies at large. Bringing education and diplomacy together to recognize the new concept of education diplomacy offers a dynamic and powerful tool for positively shaping our world.”
In general, diplomacy approaches offer effective, thoughtful, and appropriate ways to share information, communicate ideas, and build relationships. Education diplomacy uses the foundational concepts of diplomacy—reflection, sensitivity, cross-cultural communications, negotiation—to guide educators toward a deeper level of understanding, engagement, and practice in order to advance sustainable change across education systems. In such a rapidly changing and globalized world, the future of humanity itself could be at risk if we do not engage intentionally in efforts that promote sensitive communication,collaboration, and sustainable relationships.
I believe that this is a very strong positive step in the right direction in creating equal opportunities for educating all children regardless of where they reside. In addition to the new website, there is a wealth of knowledge and resources both current and archived, to be reviewed and shared with parents, professionals, and people in general within all communities around the world. I now feel globally connected as it relates to my field of choice, ECE.
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Dantaya,
ReplyDeleteI am glad you chose an organization from across the world. We need to understand the demographics as well as issues and trends children face abroad. Although we live in the United States, I feel that some people do not realize that our children here have just as many issues as other children who do not live in the U.S. The mission and vision of this organization is very similar to what I believe. All children should have access to high-quality education. This will allow them to become contributing citizens in their community. Children will only become what we teach them to become. I say this because, we expect children to be great in life, but we never teach them how to be great. You have provided some great information to us from this website; I hope you continue to research and post valuable information to your readers. This will help us to be aware of the global things going on in early childhood education.
Thanks for your post,
Lah-Lah Devine