Education Out Loud
The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities' Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development is one of four Global Learning Partners for Education Out Loud (EOL), an initiative funded by the Global Partnership for Education and managed by Oxfam Denmark. This project will run from 2024 until 2026.
Education Out Loud is funded by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) to advance advocacy and social accountability in education. It empowers civil society to play an active and influential role in shaping education policies that are more responsive to the needs of communities—especially those that are vulnerable or marginalized. Education Out Loud focuses on strengthening the capacity of civil society organizations to participate in education sector planning, engage in policy dialogue, and monitor implementation. The fund also promotes greater transparency and accountability in national education policies, while fostering a more supportive global and regional environment for civil society advocacy.
Our Role as a Global Learning Partner
As we work with our regional and global collaborators within Education Out Loud, our team will focus specifically on the thematic area of gender equality and social inclusion (GESI). GESI aims to ensure that all individuals—regardless of gender, age, disability, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or other factors—have equal opportunities to participate in and benefit from development processes by identifying and addressing barriers to inclusion, promoting fairness, and empowering marginalized and disadvantaged groups to fully engage in society and decision-making.
Christopher Johnstone and Aditi Arur (third and fourth from left, respectively) represent the University of Minnesota at a meeting of the Education Out Loud Global Learning Partners at the 2025 Comparative International Education Society Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.
Our team has proposed an innovative model of engagement entitled FRAME (Facilitated Reflexive and Multimodal Exchange) to connect with grantees who are members of Regional Coalitions in Asia and Latin America through digital engagements.
The FRAME approach captures information through an emergent, bottom-up form of informational infrastructure that is an evolving, open, heterogeneous learning ecosystem. It's built upon our experiences with the Delphi research methodology, photovoice, digital storytelling, reflexive mixed methods, design thinking, and video-cued multivocal ethnography:
Image / framework copyright OLPD, 2025
The FRAME approach involves facilitated digital engagements with the grantees of the learning collective that enable a collective reflection on both the ‘how’ (for example, EOL grantees’ GESI conceptualization, implementation, and policy advocacy successes and challenges to-date) and the ‘what’ of their advocacy efforts in GESI (for example, the different modes in which grantees produce GESI-related content).
Project Personnel
The project team is comprised of OLPD faculty and staff and a partnership with Christ University in India:
- Joan DeJaeghere
Professor and Chair, Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development - Christopher Johnstone
Associate Professor, Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development - Nancy Pellowski Wiger
Senior Researcher, Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development - Matthew Schuelka
Senior Researcher, Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development - Aditi Ashok Arur (OLPD PhD, 2014)
Assistant Professor, Psychology—Christ University, India
Contact
Contact Joan DeJaeghere (deja0003@umn.edu) or Christopher Johnstone (john4810@umn.edu) if you are interested in learning more about our work with Education Out Loud.