A summary of the 10 educational priorities from the World Innovation Summit for Education & a call for action to achieve them.

1. Global Equity Imperative:
Can we be WISE enough to change
the face of education worldwide?
Rob Crawford
January 2010

2. Under the leadership of
HH Sheika Mozah Bint
Nasser Al-Missned,
the Qatar Foundation
organized the first
World Innovation
Summit for Education
on November 16-18,
2009

3. The Doha Summit brought together 1,000 global education
leaders seeking common ground & action on challenging
educational issues in the 21st century.

4. These included major issues ranging
from the hundreds of millions of
people still denied the basic right of
education

5. to questions about how we will educate people for a world
in which they will have to be global employees and citizens
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6. There were three strands of themed
presentations based on Pluralism,
Sustainability and Innovation
to promote concrete, systemic
educational change

7. Innovation should be … the force which exerts human energy
& guides it wisely for the purpose of expanding human
intelligence & creativity
HH Sheika Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned
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8. WISE concluded with a declaration of 10 core
education priorities

9. Access
to
“quality”
education

10. A fully integrated approach

11. Global citizenship

12. Education embedded in the local community
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13. Protecting education and educators

15. ‘WISE pioneers’ to monitor progress
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16. Innovating new ways to learn

17. Pursuing
sustainable
development

18. A future built on
multi-stakeholder partnership
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19. WISE is an agenda-setting forum defining areas
requiring actions across all sectors of education &
will seek involvement of appropriate partners

20. WISE will promote innovative practices,
methodologies & partnerships, making best use of
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21. WISE will seek to inform public opinion & put
education as a priority on the political, social &
economic agenda

22. Humanity’s best hope lies in access to quality
education. We must turn words into deeds.
Abdullah bin Ali Al-Thani

23. What
priority
matters
most?

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26. Where people think it easier to maintain
the status quo & not deal with change

27. It is not just
increasing capacity
in the system
that will lead
to global
educational
equity & equality

28. It is the people in the system who possess
the capacity to change the system

29. We must act together to create a world for
others that will solve what we have struggled
with ourselves
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30. Global Equity Imperative:
Can we be WISE enough to change
the face of education worldwide?
Rob Crawford
Life Development Institute, 2010
Email: lifedevelopmentinstitute@gmail.com
http://lifedevelopmentinstitute.wordpress.com
www.lifedevelopmentinstitute.org
Get involved with WISE and
find a way to contribute in your
local community!
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