Educational Challenges for the Global Village

1. Educational Challengesfor the Global Village Br. Armin A. Luistro FSC

2. SOURCE: CNN. “2013: The year in pictures”. Retrieved April 27, 2014 from http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/05/world/gallery/2013-year-in-pictures/index.html

3. I. Roots of Lasallian Pedagogy

4. deeply moved by the condition of the children of the artisans and the poor

6. II. Current Global State of Education

7. Education for All (EFA) • “to meet the learning needs of all children, youth and adults • by 2015.”

8. 1. Expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and education 50% 25%

9. 2. Ensuring that all children have access to and are able to complete primary education 57M

10. 3. Equitable access to appropriate learning and life skills programs

11. 4. Achieving a 50% improvement in levels of adult literacy. 774m

12. 5. Eliminating gender disparities and achieving gender equality in education 40% 60%

13. 6. Improving all aspects of the quality of education

14. Education for All (EFA) • NOT a single ONE • of the six • EFA goals • will be achieved • by 2015

15. III. Addressing the need for Quality, Universal Education

16. Gary Becker “People cannot be separated from their knowledge, skills, health or values in the way they can be separated from their financial and physical assets.” Human Capital

17. Personal Gain VS Common Good?

18. …ensure that our children receive an education that allows them to become good people who practice that great commandment of love.

19. ‘educational emergency’ Educators are called to urgently pass on to future generations the basic values of life and moral conduct. Pope Benedict XVI

20. Rudolf Steiner The primary function of education is to exercise the students’ faculties of thinking, feeling, and willing. Lecture on Truth, Beauty and Goodness

21. Faculties of thinking, feeling, and willing

23. Andrew DelBlanco in Europe & US: education narrowed down “to mean the acquisition of practical skills” in Asia: effort to include “the cultivation of feeling and imagination” The Humanities Crisis

24. to become fully human

27. IV. Towards a truly Liberal Education

28. Alam Simpson Liberal education “distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training, which is merely practical, or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all. Such an education involves a combination of knowledge, skills and standards.” The Marks of an Educated Man

31. Indigenous Peoples Education (IPEd) Program in the Philippines

32. “Our first task…is to take off our shoes, for the place we are approaching is holy.” Max Warren

33. “a society respectful of human life in all its expressions.” Indigenous Peoples Education in the Philippine landscape

34. V. Education for Transformation

35. Joseph Aoun “Our colleges and universities must work to ensure that all students become inquisitive, lifelong learners with a global perspective.” Expand Students’ Global Experience

37. Kahlil Gibran “A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”

38. VI. Opportunities for Collaboration and Innovation

39. MOOC’s (Massive Open Online Courses) such as Coursera.

40. The Department of Education Philippines’ online resource platform, LRMDS.

41. The Department of Education Philippines’ Twitter page.

43. SOURCE: L.A. Zamboanga Times. Retrieved April 27, 2014 from http://lazamboangatimes.com/main_page_original_changed_on_12_15_2010.html

45. How can the network of educators gathered here today ACT on the global problem of 57 million children who are out of school?

47. SOURCE: Twitter. Tweet by Pope Francis (@Pontifex) on March 1, 2014.

48. MaramingSalamatpo! Thank you very much!