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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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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".