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Sustainable development relationship with other global issues
- Despite progress such as economic growth and the reduction of global poverty rate, among others, there are challenges to overcome
- Challenges cited in this passage: vulnerability, inequality, exclusion, violence, global warming, environmental degradation, natural disasters, violence against women and children, discrimination of women, religious intolerance, identity-based political mobilization and conflict
- Education for sustainable development as a way of overcoming these challenges
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Sustainable development (new section)
Education for sustainable development
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An emerging global context for learning, the relationship between globalisation and education
- Current situation of the world is highly paradoxical. Indeed, while there is economic globalization, there are also many challenges
- While there has been reduction of global poverty, there has also been low-employment growth and rising youth unemployment, for instance.
- Inequalities in education: For instance, education is only open to wealthy people in under-developed countries
- Economy: Demographic growth and urbanization often cause pollution and use of non-renewable natural resources which causes ecological problems and affects people around the world
- Cultural diversity: violence based on cultural or religious background
- Many wars, conflicts and school-related violence. Terrorism is also a problem
- Education is a powerful tool to overcome these challenges
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Ecological stress and unsustainable patterns of economic production and consumption.
- Climate change as the biggest threat to humankind
- Sustainability as the way to preserve nature and reduce the effects of climate change
- Water use doubled
- Food consumption and production increased - The majority of world’s population lives in urban areas. By 2050, 80% of the world urban population will live in cities This will have a direct impact on climate change, as this will increase “the risk of natural disasters worldwide”
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The relationship between wealth and inequality
- Poverty decline between 1990 and 2010 was mainly due to countries’ economic growth
- China and India are expected to grow rapidly in the next 15 to 20 years
- Nonetheless, inequality persists around the world
- Not enough job opportunities
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Economic inequality
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High income inequality in Latin America
- Box 1: In terms of income inequality, Latin American and the Caribbean is the most unequal region in the world
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Wealth inequality in Latin America
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| P. 24
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Information and communication technologies and rising levels of ethnic, cultural and religious intolerance,
- violence against women
- Knowledge and information sharing has become easier thanks to new technologies
- However, new technologies have also made it easier for people to attack each other
- The result of this are often conflicts and violence
- Violence against women and girls increases when there is instability
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Criminal violence, violence related to conflicts
- Violence connected to drug production and trafficking still exist and takes away many lives in countries around the world (especially in the Central American region)
- Violence connected to conflicts and/or instability
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Human rights
- Definition of human rights
- Rule of law, dynamics of power
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| P. 26
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Gender, women’s rights
- Gender as an element of discrimination
- Progress has been made in enhancing the voice and participation of women in social, economic and political life
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| P. 27
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Connected world
- Emergence and expansion of “cyber world”
- Connected world, how internet has transformed the way people communicate with each other
- More opportunities, but also more challenges to overcome
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Neurosciences
- Neurosciences as a way of understanding how humans learn, useful for the field of education
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Climate change
- Biggest challenge of our century
- Education as a way of raising awareness and promote change
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Creativity
- New forms of cultural and artistic expression
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Sumak Kawsay
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Quechua people
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Sustainable Development
- Sustainable Development through Education
- Aichi-Nagoya Declaration on Education for Sustainable Development
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Humanistic approach
- UNESCO’s mission in terms of education
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Four pillars of education
- Concept of the Delors’ Report
- Learning to know, learning to do, learning to be and learning to live together
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Curriculum development
- Possibility of creating a humanistic curriculum
- Curriculum based on intercultural education
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Inclusive education, Education for All, Millennium Development Goals
- Right to basic education has been improved, but still more work to do
- Inequalities in education
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Children with disabilities, gender equality
- Children with disabilities do often not access education
- Not much data on this situation
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Gender equality
- Gender equality in basic education
- Gender is a factor of inequality and disparity in education. Usually girls and women are the most disadvantaged in the field of education
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Secondary and higher education, early childhood education
- Gender parity has been achieved in certain regions, while not in others
- Early childhood education is very important, as education has a direct impact on children’s development
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Senegal
- Protection of children is a great concern in Senegal
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Mexico
- Mexicos’ indigenous population is the least represented in higher education
- In response to this, creation of Intercultural Universities in Mexico
- Intercultural Universities are located in indigenous areas and they are intended for the indigenous population
- 12 Intercultural Universities currently operate in Mexico and 7000 students are enrolled
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Mobile learning, mobile literacy
- The use of mobile technologies for learning
- New educational processes have developed thanks to new technologies
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Pakistan
- Mobile literacy for girls in Pakistan
- UNESCO Mobile Literacy Project
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Massive Open On-line Courses
- How MOOCs are transforming higher education
- Limits of MOOCs
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Traditional university, University rankings, knowledge society, digital technologies
- Traditional universities vs. new universities
- How can traditional universities stay relevant when there are so many other ways of acquiring education today?
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| P. 53
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University rankings
- Positive and negative aspects of University rankings
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| P. 55
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Finland
- The positive situation of teachers in Finland
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Youth
- The fact that there are less job opportunities causes frustration among youth around the world
- More competition for jobs
- Traditional education institutions are being questioned
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South Africa and Costa Rica
- South Africa: New employment opportunities for youth thanks to the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator
- Costa Rica: idem thanks to the industry association of technology companies
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| P. 63
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Bangalore and Hyderabad
- Both cities are considered “leading cities” in terms of global Information Technology (IT) sector
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| P. 65
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Citizenship education
- The meaning of citizenship is evolving under the influence of globalization
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Right to education
- Privatization of education is often a barrier to access education
- High costs demanded by private providers often prevent certain groups to access education
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Egypt
- Private tutoring in Egypt and how it damages education changes of disadvantaged people in Egypt
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Knowledge creation
- General definition of knowledge
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