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Unlearning gender: Rethinking social and emotional learning in education

by Sreehari Ravindranath, Apoorva Bhatnagar, Joseph Thomas Rijo and Amit V Kumar | Mar 31, 2026 | Learning

SEL is widely recognised as essential for promoting wellbeing, cooperation and young people's meaningful participation in their communities. Frameworks often assume that emotional development unfolds similarly for all learners, regardless of gender, culture or identity. Yet emotional expression and regulation are deeply shaped by social norms that define which feelings… Read More

Rooms we inhabit: Positionality, belonging and becoming as an ECR

by Sakina Jafri, | Mar 30, 2026 | 2025 UKFIET Conference

Positionality has never felt like an abstract concept to me. It is lived, felt, and carried into every space I enter. As a brown Pakistani American woman, a former primary school teacher, a mother, and now a doctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, my identities are multiple, intersecting, and… Read More

When evidence travels South: Rethinking the global architecture of evidence to policy

by Sreehari Ravindranath | Mar 26, 2026 | Policymaking

The ambition is clear. Education systems should be shaped by deliberate learning rather than by intuition or political expediency. In many parts of the Global South, this movement is welcomed as it promises transparency, effectiveness, and cumulative learning across reform cycles. Read More

With 2030 approaching, racism remains a major obstacle to equal education

by Arathi Sriprakash, David Archer, Zama Mthunzi and Sharon Walker | Mar 24, 2026 | GEM Report, SDGs

2026 marks 25 years since the UN World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. We call on UNESCO, GEMR, and their many stakeholders to demonstrate global leadership and action on the UN’s anti-racist mission through their policy and monitoring programmes for SDG4. Read More