Articles

  1. 22 August 2025

    Education leaders call for urgent action to address global crisis in the teaching profession

    World Summit on Teachers presents roadmap to address 50 global million teacher shortage and fully fund public education

    News

    SANTIAGO, CHILE – As ministers and education leaders prepare to convene for the World Summit on Teachers (WST) on 28-29 August 2025, the global teaching profession faces an unprecedented recruitment and retention crisis. The world needs 50 million more teachers by 2030 across early childhood, primary and secondary education, yet...

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  2. 22 August 2025

    World Summit on Teachers: 50 million teachers are needed now. Education leaders call for action!

    Santiago de Chile | 28-29 August 2025

    News

    From recommendations to action 18 months after the UN recommendations on the teaching profession, world leaders and Education International representatives gather in Santiago de Chile to confront an unprecedented crisis. Without immediate action on recruitment, retention, and genuine social dialogue, the right to education remains an empty promise.

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  3. 28 February 2019

    Constructing teachers’ professional identities

    Philippa Cordingley, Bart Crisp, Paige Johns, Thomas Perry, Carol Campbell, Miranda Bell and Megan Bradbury.

    Philippa Cordingley

    Research

    This study aims at examining how teachers’ professional identities are constructed in seven contrasting education systems. The jurisdictions - Berlin, Chile, Kenya, Ontario, Scotland, Singapore and Sweden - were selected to achieve an economic and geographical balance and a range of contexts in relation to educational performance and teacher supply...

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Cooperation Projects

  1. 2024

    Movimientos Pedagógico Latinoamericano, RED de Trabajadoras de la Educación para America Latina, Poblaciones Indígenas, Observatorio Latinoamericano de Políticas Educativas (OLPE)

    Desde la IEAL, se desea lograr una estructura sindical docente cada vez más fortalecida, con mayor fuerza político-organizativa, para enfrentar lo que se viene describiendo como arremetida antisindical en los diversos países. Inclusive, para tener mayor fuerza sindical para enfrentar los diversos contextos nacionales y situaciones coyunturales. Asimismo, se desea...

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