Our Mission

The Office of Education and Culture supports the efforts of Member States to improve the quality and equity of education and to enhance and highlight the contribution of their diverse cultures to economic, social, and human development.

Our Strategy

•  Promoting inter-American dialogue on policy and practice in the fields of education and culture, through meetings of Ministers, Inter-American Committees, and knowledge-sharing seminars and workshops.

 •  Assisting in knowledge transfer and capacity building through the design and implementation of multi-country projects in education and culture.

 •  Supporting networks of policy makers, researchers, practitioners, and international governmental and non-governmental organizations on key education and culture topics

Priority Topics

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Education

 The mission of the Office is to support the 34 OAS Member States in their efforts to ensure quality education for all and to protect and draw on their rich cultural heritage to promote economic, social and human development

 The Office carries out this mission through four main strategies: fostering policy dialogue; promoting capacity building; creating and strengthening networks and alliances; and facilitating technical cooperation.More

• The Inter-American Program for Education in Democratic Practices and Values
   
• Teacher Education and Professionalization  
  
  
• Early Childhood Care and Education  
  
  
• Education Indicators Project
  
  
• Literacy and Adult Education
  
  
• Ministerial Meetings
  
  
• Inter-American Committee on Education

Culture

The vast cultural richness of the Americas embodies thousands of different ways of looking at the world. This richness constitutes an extraordinary source of ideas to address diverse topics from how to preserve and protect cultural heritage, to questions of identity, dignity and the role of minority groups, to innovative relationships between cultural production and national economies. More

• Preservation and Protection of Cultural Heritage 

• Culture, Identity and Diversity  

• Culture, Economics and Development 

• Cultural Information Systems

EDUCATION PRIORITY TOPICS

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Contact us

If you need more information about OAS activities in education, please email us at: education@oas.org