{"id":13583,"date":"2020-10-15T13:24:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T20:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediax.stanford.edu\/?p=13583"},"modified":"2020-12-11T13:45:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T21:45:19","slug":"stanford-education-professors-visit-the-vatican-to-help-craft-a-new-global-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediax.stanford.edu\/news\/stanford-education-professors-visit-the-vatican-to-help-craft-a-new-global-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Education Professors Visit The Vatican to Help Craft A New Global Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Stanford education professors (<a href=\"https:\/\/ed.stanford.edu\/faculty\/barronbj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Brigid Barron<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ed.stanford.edu\/faculty\/acolby1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Anne Colby<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ed.stanford.edu\/faculty\/wdamon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">William Damon<\/a>) helped shape a new global education initiative that Pope Francis introduced this week. The task brought them to Vatican City earlier this year for a research symposium that included an audience with the pope himself.<\/p>\n<p>The gathering, held in Vatican City at the headquarters of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, was convened to help organizers draft the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationglobalcompact.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Global Compact on Education<\/a>, a document defining guiding principles for education from preschool through higher ed. Similar in spirit to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, the pact puts forth a vision and a set of values meant to transcend geographic, economic, sociopolitical and religious differences.<\/p>\n<p>Damon presented with Colby, an adjunct professor at the GSE, about their research into the development of purpose in young people. Barron, a GSE professor and co-lead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/telos.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">TELOS Initiative<\/a> at Stanford, shared her work on how technology can provide more equitable access to learning opportunities, both in and out of school.\u00a0\u201cIt was an honor to participate in a workshop that centered educational equity as core to the future of humanity,\u201d Barron said.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis announced the Global Compact on Education live on Oct. 15 via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC7E-LYc1wivk33iyt5bR5zQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Vatican News<\/a> YouTube channel. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationglobalcompact.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a> of the Global Compact for more details.<\/p>\n<p>Read The Entire News Story by Carrie Spector <a href=\"https:\/\/ed.stanford.edu\/news\/visit-vatican-stanford-professors-play-part-crafting-new-global-education-initiative\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo Courtesy: Vatican Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mediaX Thought Leader Brigid Barron and other Stanford GSE faculty contributed to draft the Global Compact on Education, a pact that Pope Francis announced today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[185,14,186,19,66],"class_list":["post-13583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-development","tag-education","tag-global","tag-learning","tag-online-learning"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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