Date: Tuesday, 8 November (7:00pm Costa Rica, 8:00pm Toronto)
Wednesday, 9 November (10:00am Japan, 9:00am Beijing and Kuala Lumpur)
The United Nations, especially through UNESCO, has been putting as a high priority the transformation of education to face our current challenges and help better shape the future. The invitation to rethink education is not only for governmental institutions, but all individuals and institutions working in this field, who are also called to rethink and reimagine how education can help us build a more just, sustainable and peaceful world.
In this webinar, we will learn about these ongoing efforts from Charles Hopkins, who holds the UNESCO Chair at York University in Toronto, Canada. He has been an advisor to several ministries of education in Asia and Europe, he is the Co-Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute on Education for Sustainable Development in Beijing, China; and has been involved with UNESCO efforts in transforming education since the drafting of Chapter 36 of Agenda 21 in 1992.
We will also learn from Mirian Vilela, Executive Director of Earth Charter International, who has been collaborating with UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development efforts since 2004, she was a member of the UNESCO Expert Group for the UN Decade on ESD, then the Global Action Programme on ESD and now is part of the Education for Sustainable Development ESD 2030 Network. She holds the UNESCO Chair on ESD with the Earth Charter, based at the Earth Charter Center for Education for Sustainable Development at the University for Peace.
The closing remarks for this online event will be offered by Atsufumi Yokoi, Senior Vice President for Global Engagement Strategy of Okayama University, Japan
The moderator of this webinar will be Sam Crowell, Faculty member of the Earth Charter Center for ESD, and professor emeritus from California State University, San Bernardino, USA.
This webinar will be an opportunity to identify synergies and opportunities between UNESCO’s Futures of Education Initiative and ESD 2030 Roadmap, and other similar efforts.
In specific, this webinar will:
・Look at key ideas highlighted in these two major efforts, their similarities, and the opportunities they present to transform education at
various contexts.
・Look at how these efforts emphasize the need to reorient the purpose of education towards fostering a culture of care and responsibility
and ecological consciousness.
・Explore the role values education and ethics have in the transformation of education practice and the notion of education as a global
common. How to envision bringing values and ethics more to the center of education?
The spaces inside Zoom will be filled on a first come, first served basis.
If you are unable to participate in zoom, or did not get a ticket, this webinar will be also broadcasted on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ECInternational