Futures of Education: protecting and transforming education for shared futures and common humanity
The webinar will explore the possible deep and fundamental transformations in how societies, politics, economies and even cultures may be organized in the future. It will focus on what can be learnt broadly from the COVID-19 crisis and what future transformations of humanity and the planet can become possible.
The webinar will be conducted in French.
The current pandemic has changed anticipated futures across the globe. The COVID-19 crisis is both world-shattering and world-making. There is a widely shared sense that humanity is at a defining moment for rethinking the future. Reflection on probable/anticipated and possible/alternative futures is well underway within UNESCO’s Futures of Education: Learning to Become initiative and the UN@75 reflections on shaping the future together.
In January 2020 an International Commission on the Futures of Education, chaired by the President of Ethiopia, released a visioning and framing document calling for broad global debate and co-construction of ideas on how knowledge and learning can shape the future of humanity and the planet. The Commission has also recently released a joint statement on the COVID-19 crisis entitled “Protecting and transforming education for shared futures and our common humanity”.
The webinar will explore the possible deep and fundamental transformations in how societies, politics, economies and even cultures may be organized in the future. The subtitle “Learning to Become” is used to suggest that humanity has opportunities to become something it has not yet become. On a more philosophical level, “becoming” emphasizes potentials and a flexible openness to the new.
The discussion will be moderated by Mr Sobhi Tawil, Head of Education Research and Foresight at the Education Sector of UNESCO.- Mr Abdel Basset Ben Hassen, President, Arab Institute for Human Rights, Tunisia;- Mr António Nóvoa, Ambassador of Portugal to UNESCO; - Ms Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President, World Leadership Alliance/Club de Madrid, Former President of Latvia.
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20.05.2020
Paris - France