Aaron Benavot

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Aaron Benavot
Alma mater Stanford University
OccupationDirector Education for All Global Monitoring Report
Years active30
Known forEducation Policy, Comparative Education

Aaron Benavot is a global education policy analyst currently working as the director of Education for All Global Monitoring Report. [1]

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Professional career

After completing his doctorate from Stanford University in 1986, Benavot joined University of Georgia as an assistant professor in sociology. In 1990, he moved to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he remained until 2007. [2] Benavot then joined School of Education at the University at Albany, SUNY, New York. In 2007, he was elected to the board of directors at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES).

Benavot has served as co-editor of the Comparative Education Review from 2009 to 2012 and currently serves on the advisory boards of number of journals including Revista Latinoamericana de Educación Comparada, [3] Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies, [4] Revista de Educación, [5] and Innovation-The European Journal of Social Science Research. [6]

Benavot has also worked as a Senior Policy Analyst for the UNESCO Education for All Global Monitoring Report between 2005 and 2009. In 2014, he joined the report team as the director. [1]

Titles and awards

Notable works

Related Research Articles

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Early childhood education</span> The teaching of children from birth to age eight

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Open educational resources</span> Open learning resource

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International education refers to a dynamic concept that involves a journey or movement of people, minds, or ideas across political and cultural frontiers. It is facilitated by the globalization phenomenon, which increasingly erases the constraints of geography on economic, social, and cultural arrangements. The concept involves a broad range of learning, for example, formal education and informal learning. It could also involve a reorientation of academic outlook such as the pursuit of "worldmindedness" as a goal so that a school or its academic focus is considered international. For example, the National Association of State Universities prescribes the adoption of "proper education" that reflects the full range of international, social, political, cultural, and economic dialogue. International educators are responsible for "designing, managing, and facilitating programs and activities that help participants to appropriately, effectively, and ethically engage in interactions with culturally diverse people and ideas."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Right to education</span> Human right

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Education in Nigeria</span> Overview of education in Nigeria

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">World Council for Comparative Education Societies</span> International organization of comparative education societies

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John Wilfred Meyer is a sociologist and emeritus professor at Stanford University. Beginning in the 1970s and continuing to the present day, Meyer has contributed fundamental ideas to the field of sociology, especially in the areas of education, organizations, and global and transnational sociology. He is best known for the development of the neo-institutional perspective on globalization, known as world society or World Polity Theory. In 2015, he became the recipient of American Sociological Association's highest honor - W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">International Bureau of Education</span> Organisation created in Geneva in 1925

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Global citizenship education (GCED) is a form of civic learning that involves students' active participation in projects that address global issues of a social, political, economic, or environmental nature. The two main elements of GCE are 'global consciousness'; the moral or ethical aspect of global issues, and 'global competencies', or skills meant to enable learners to participate in changing and developing the world. The promotion of GCE was a response by governments and NGOs to the emergence of supranational institution, regional economic blocs, and the development of information and communications technologies. These have all resulted in the emergence of a more globally oriented and collaborative approach to education. GCE addresses themes such as peace and human rights, intercultural understanding, citizenship education, respect for diversity and tolerance, and inclusiveness.

Curricula in early childhood care and education (ECCE) address the role and importance of curricula in the education of young children, and is the driving force behind any ECCE programme. It is ‘an integral part of the engine that, together with the energy and motivation of staff, provides the momentum that makes programmes live’. It follows therefore that the quality of a programme is greatly influenced by the quality of its curriculum. In early childhood, these may be programmes for children or parents, including health and nutrition interventions and prenatal programmes, as well as centre-based programmes for children.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sustainable Development Goal 4</span> 4th of 17 Sustainable Development Goals to achieve quality education for all

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References

  1. 1 2 "Aaron Benavot's UNESCO Profile".
  2. "Faculty Member at Hebrew University of Jerusalem".
  3. "Member Advisory Board at the Revista Latinoamericana de Educación Comparada". Archived from the original on 2016-09-13. Retrieved 2016-09-09.
  4. "Member Advisory Board at the Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies".
  5. "Member Advisory Board at the Revista de Educación".
  6. "Member Advisory Board at the Innovation-The European Journal of Social Science Research".
  7. Benavot, Aaron (1983). "The rise and decline of vocational education". Sociology of Education. 56 (2): 63–76. doi:10.2307/2112655. JSTOR   2112655. S2CID   55318600.
  8. Benavot, Aaron; Riddle, Phyllis (1988). "The expansion of primary education 1870-1940". Sociology of Education. 61 (3): 191–210. doi:10.2307/2112627. JSTOR   2112627.
  9. Benavot, Aaron (1989). "Education, gender, and economic development". Sociology of Education. 62 (1): 14–32. doi:10.2307/2112821. JSTOR   2112821.
  10. Benavot, Aaron; Cha, Yun-Kyung; Kamens, David; Meyer, John W.; Wong, Suk-Ying (1991). "Knowledge for the masses". American Sociological Review. 56 (1): 85–100. doi:10.2307/2095675. JSTOR   2095675.
  11. Benavot, Aaron (1992). "Curricular content, educational expansion and economic growth" (PDF). Comparative Education Review. 36 (2): 150–174. doi:10.1086/447097. JSTOR   1188589. S2CID   143881373.
  12. Benavot, Aaron (1995-11-30). "Education and political democratization". Comparative Education Review. 40 (4): 377–403. doi:10.1086/447400. S2CID   144916348.
  13. Benavot, Aaron; Gad, Limor (2004). "Actual instructional time in African primary schools". Prospects. 34 (3): 291–310. doi:10.1007/s11125-004-5309-7. S2CID   143814553.
  14. "Global educational expansion".
  15. "The growth of national learning assessments in the world, 1995-2006" (PDF).
  16. School knowledge in comparative and historical perspective. CERC Studies in Comparative Education. Springer. 2007. ISBN   9781402057359.
  17. "The organization of school knowledge".
  18. Benavot, Aaron (September 2011). "Imagining a transformed UNESCO with learning at its core". International Journal of Educational Development. 31 (5): 558–561. doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2010.11.013.
  19. "Primary school curricula in Reading and Mathematics in developing countries" (PDF).
  20. "PISA, power, and policy".