Ideas LAB
The Futures of Education Ideas LAB space is designed to highlight original scholarship and opinion pieces that bear on issues being examined within UNESCO’s Futures of Education initiative. The ideas expressed here are those of the authors; they are not necessarily those of UNESCO and do not commit the Organization. These articles are currently only available in English; translations will be available soon.
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Towards an epistemological alliance for the decolonization of knowledge of the global South and the global North
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Rethinking the 'human' at the heart of humanist education
Keri Facer — 26 March 2021 | Read now
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Knowledge commons and enclosures
Peter Ronald DeSouza — 23 March 2021 | Read now
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Cultural resources, common goods, and the futures of the rig...
Patrice Meyer-Bisch — 15 February 2021 | Read now
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Reworking Four Pillars of Education to Sustain the Commons
Noah W. Sobe — 10 February 2021 | Read now
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Educating for a jobless society
Alexander “Sasha” Sidorkin — 16 November 2020 | Read now
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Reorienting curriculum for the Anthropocene
Xavier Fazio — 18 September 2020 | Read now