May 12 2023
The Future of Teaching - Conversations with Global Leaders ft Professor Fernando M. Reimers | Episode - 3 | Part-1
The Future of Teaching - Conversations with Global Leaders is a series of interviews where we deep dive into the world of teaching and education and explore what teaching will look like in 10, 20, and 30 years!
Fernando M. Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice in International Education and Director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative and of The International Education Policy Program at Harvard University. He is interested in advancing understanding of the ways schools can empower students to participate civically and economically, and to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. He is a member of UNESCOs Commission on the Futures of Education.
He teaches courses on education policy and educational innovation that explore how to support students in developing the competencies that help them improve their opportunities and quality of life and contribute to improve the world. He is the founding director of the International Education Policy Masters Program, a program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that supports the development of leaders of systemic efforts to enhance the quality and relevancy of education around the world. His book One Student at a Time. Leading the Global Education Movement is an analysis of the contributions of the graduates of this program to the Global Education Movement. This book is also available in Spanish. The book Leading Education Through COVID-19 examines the contributions of graduates of the program to sustain educational opportunity during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
His research is available in Research Gate, Academia, Google Scholar, Amazon, and in this Global Citizenship Education page. Current work focuses on educational innovation and on the impact of education policy, leadership, and teacher professional development on education that supports the holistic development of children and youth. He directs the Global Education Innovation Initiative, a cross-country research and practice collaborative focusing on education for the 21st century and has recently completed a comparative study on the educational impact of COVID-19 ( Primary and Secondary Education during COVID-19) and a comparative study of the way in which universities in 20 countries partnered with schools to sustain educational opportunity during the Pandemic (University and School collaborations during a pandemic).
His recent book Educating Students to Improve the World, also available in Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish, presents a theory of global education to support the transformation of schools and school systems in alignment with an inclusive and sustainable vision for the future of humanity. In another recent book Audacious Education Purposes, also available in Spanish, he and his colleagues in the Global Education Innovation Initiative examine the implementation of national education reforms aligned with ambitious education goals. In the book Empowering Teachers to Build a Better World, also available in Portuguese and Spanish, Reimers and his colleagues examine six large scale programs of teacher professional development aligned with supporting the education of the whole child. The book Implementing Deeper learning and 21st Century Education Reforms , also available in Spanish, examines system level reforms to educate the whole child in six countries. The book Education and Climate Change. The Role of Universities, also available in Spanish, presents the results of using an approach he developed to create effective curriculum to mitigate, adapt and revert climate change.
