Towards a rights based world

Learning: The Treasure Within

Main tensions facing the world and affecting education

by Goran BuldioskiThe presentation is based on the report to UNESCO of the International Commission for Education for the Twenty-first century

Today's Context for Global Change

Cartoons used with permission from www.coe.int/compass

Today's Context for Global Change

Tensions in today’s world Crisis caused by these tensions What type of Education for

Global Change Role of Education for Global

Change in the promotion equality and development

7 Tensions

The tension between the global and the local; the universal and the individual; tradition and modernity; the spiritual and the material; long-term and short-term considerations; competition and equality of opportunity; the extraordinary expansion of knowledge and

the capacity of human beings to assimilate it.

Tension between the global and the local

Tension betweenthe global and the local

Global Village vs. local community Question of roots, belongingness

and identity Alienation and powerlessness Individualism

Whose global? Whose standards? Globalization and the not so level

playing field Free vs. Fair trade

Tension between the universal and the individual

Tension between the universal and the individual

Development has produced regimented (disciplined and controlled) lives

Systems tend to standardise almost all aspects of life so much so that individuals spend most of their time keeping up with the system

Tension between tradition and modernity

Tension between tradition and modernity

Tradition and culture are produced and reproduced not by the traditional social organizations* but by the market

* As it used to be in the past.

Tension between short term goals and long term considerations

Tension between short term goals and long term considerations

Growth oriented development threatens ecological balance

Economic development vs. rights-based development

National security vs. human security

Moral fatigue

Tension between the need for competition and the concern for equality of opportunity

Tension between the need for competition and the concern for equality of opportunity

Wealth with work Business with morality Politics with principle Knowledge with character Science with humanity A search for new ideology

Tension between the extraordinary expansion of knowledge and the human capacity to assimilate it

Tension between the extraordinary expansion of knowledge and the human capacity to assimilate it

Emphasis on how to think rather than what to think

Search for relevant education From absolute/essential to

contextual knowledge Information explosion and “digital

divide"

Tension between the material and the spiritual

Tension between the material and the spiritual

Self worth is equated with material accumulation

Search for meaning, interconnectedness and well-being

Crisis caused by these tensions

Crisis of Structures Governance Global Economy

Crisis of Ideology Culture Individualism

Crisis of Spirit Apathy, Passivity, and Fatigue Pessimism and Hopelessness

What type of Education for Global Change

Based on

Belief in the concept of Human Rights (language of hope)

Partnership not Assistance

Combination of Personal and Social Transformation

What type of Education for Global Change (part 2)

Four Pillars of Learning

Learning to Live Together

Learning to Know

Learning to Do

Learning to Be

What type of Education for Global Change (part 3)

Education for global change is for

Knowledge(learning about …)

Skills(learning for…)

Attitudes and values(learning through …)

All these in informal, non-formal and formal learning settings

What type of Education for Global Change (part 4)Informal education: the lifelong process whereby every individual acquires attitudes, values, skills and knowledge from daily experience and the educational influences and resources in his or her own environment (family, neighbours, marketplace, library, mass media, work, play, etc.).

Formal education: the structured education system running from primary school to university and including specialised programmes for technical and professional training.

Non-formal education: any organised educational activity outside the established formal education system. Some of these programmes might not have been originally conceived as "educational".

Role of Education for Global Change in the promotion equality and development

Left for you to define ;-)Thank you for your attention.

Steps:

- Questions / general discussion on the presentation

- Definition of aim and main contents of the future training courses in small groups