Children and Youth Development Conference Opportunities and Equity - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Achieving Children’s Learning and Well-being in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Senior Specialist in Academic Affairs and Learning Development, Ministry of Education, Thailand

Children and Youth Development Conference

Benjalug Namfa, Ph.D.

Opportunities and Equity beyond Frontiers

Outline

• What does it mean to Basic Education
• Why focus on G 12?

WHY

FOCUS ON

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

World Population:

Past, Present, and Future

The World Population

• July 2014: 7.244 billion
• July 201

015: 7.325 billio lion

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

• 2024: 8 billio

lion

• 204

042: 9 billion lion

• 206

062: 10 0 billio lion

World Population Growth Rate (%)

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/world_footprint/

Ecological Footprint

• Today humanity uses the equivalent of 1.5

planets to provide the resources we use and absorb our waste. This means it now takes the Earth one year and six months to regenerate what we use in a year.

• Moderate UN scenarios suggest that if

current population and consumption trends continue, by the 2030s, we will need the equivalent of two Earths to support us. And

• f course, we only have one.

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/world_footprint/

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/living_planet_report_2014_facts/

Ranking countries by total and per capita Ecological Footprint produces very different

• results. The Ecological Footprint of the top five countries makes up about half the global
• total. Analysis of the 2014 National Footprint Accounts reveals that just two countries

generated 31 percent of the world’s total carbon Footprint: China (16 percent) and the USA (15 percent).

Turning resources into waste faster than waste can be turned back into resources puts us in global ecological

• vershoot, depleting the very resources on which

human life and biodiversity depend.

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/living_planet_report_2014_facts/

Not me

More = better?

Discontent is essential

That things have changed but not absolutely and that while these changes have produced new `first-order’ problems

STEPHEN J. BALL (1998)

And the small voices said...

common educational responses to an un-sustainable world

* Understand the science

* Love and protect Nature * Do your bit as a responsible citizen

the mantra reuse, reduce, and recycle

Care for the planet..!

• We are in charge of the

planet? Its in our hands?

• Look at the image: we

are implying we are literally outside of the

• planet. Perhaps we can

say ‘I don’t want to care for it…’

• The human race may be

in its own care but not the planet.

But look, its everywhere...

• In this common diagram

are shown three SD elements all existing without a context. They are ‘in balance’

• The economy has no

boundary neither does society... But the environment does in reality

• Its as naive just like the

image of ‘caring for the planet

Give something up... do with less

• And the reward for doing this is

what exactly?

• In most choices the benefits

and losses are weighed, often monetarily, but for real ... Yet, when it comes to the environment an open ended ‘caring’ with little reward is expected.

• Eco-Religion? Have faith, do

well and our reward is to follow in Life Everlasting (or planet everlasting in this case)

Do your bit ... If we all...

• Walk to school, buy

locally, switch off lights! And somehow its supposed to add up to a meaningful change, with the mantra ‘if only we all..’

• We have forgotten the

Prisoner’s Dilemma (game theory) We won’t join in -unless the rules of the game change

Recycling...!

Recycling is often

• downcycling. -the product

is degraded. Its still a one way journey ‘take- make- dump’, just a bit slower! Its often expensive and environmentally and socially deleterious. It is the only one of the ‘four R’s’ -refuse, reduce, reuse, qnd recycle - which legitimises more consumption!

Eco-efficiency is the answer!

Do more with Less. Another message of eco efficiency might be ‘we are doing the wrong thing less blatantly and intensively’. That doesn’t make it the right thing: it just buys time. And demand just keeps rising...

Sustainability is boring

The messages are

so uninviting: ‘do with less’, ‘do it for the planet (with no reward)’ ‘its up to you’,and often misleading: ‘recycling works’, ‘if everybody..’ ‘clean is green’, ‘an eco school is a sustainable school’

Where are we?

• Our collective

efforts resemble walking North on a Southbound train (David Orr)

• ...eco-efficiency is a

guilt-driven agenda that takes for granted - even institutionalizes - the antagonism between nature and industry (Wm McDonough)

Rethinking - a job for education!

Imagination rules the world

(Napoleon)

You never change things by fighting against the existing

• reality. To change something,

build a new model that makes the

• ld model obsolete.

(Buckminster Fuller)

I have come to believe, after a decade’s work on this issue, that saving ourselves depends not on

• ur ability to shock but rather to

inspire.

(Werbach)

The attracting potential of a desirable world is what human nature finds it easy to say yes to. And ultimately, as Wendell Berry wisely

• bserves, pleasure

is what gets the job done.

EPR

What should Education be?

To recognise the `problems’ of globalisation which frame and `produce’ the contemporary `problems’ of education To identify a set of generic `solutions’ to these problems and acknowledge their effects in educational reform and restructuring

STEPHEN J. BALL (1998)

Promoting Sound Policies in Practice

• Put People in the center of development
• Focus on learning skills development for lifelong

learning

• Empower private sector and communities for

support & partnership of learning

• Clear standards & Indicators and take national

perspectives.

• Incentives for teachers (promotion) and students

(awards, getting accepted to good schools)

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Learning

Active

Meaningful

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Acquisition I ntegration Application

Active Learning Cycle

• Dr. James Gallager

การรับ ความรู้ ∗ Lecture ∗ Demonstrate ∗ Lab ∗ Slide ∗ Video/ Youtube ∗ Reading Text ∗ Homework

การรับ ความรู้

Acquisition

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การ บูรณาการ ความรู้

บูรณาการ ความรู้

ประยุกต์ใช้ ความรู้

การ

ประยุกต์ใช้

ความรู้

∗ Problem solving activities ∗ Present Alternatives ∗ Application Questions ∗ Planning

Application

การเรียนรู้อย่างมีความหมาย

การรับความรู้ Acquisition บูรณาการ ความรู้ I ntegration ประยุกต์ใช้ ความรู้ Application

• Dr. James Gallager

การรับความรู้

Acquisition

• Dr. James Gallager

ประยุกต์ใช้ ความรู้

Application

Present Situation

บูรณาการ ความรู้

I ntegration

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10% 10%

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Acquisition

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Application

• Dr. James Gallager

Propose Situation

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Thailand will be concentrating on developing 3 kinds of qualifications to help meet these needs

• 1. thinking ability to construct knowledge
• 2. ability to communicate
• 3. social problem alleviation ability

To this end we have identified

“5 Learning Steps”

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Focus on learning skills development for lifelong learning “5 Learning Steps” which will ideally provide a “Staircase”

Focus on learning skills development for lifelong learning : 5 Learning Steps

• focuses on developing

life-long learning, specially

critical thinking skills

• teachers encourage

students to be more

• bservant and raise

their questioning skills

Learning to Question

Focus on learning skills development for lifelong learning : 5 Learning Steps

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Focus on learning skills development for lifelong learning : 5 Learning Steps

• method of focusing on

investigating, enquiring experimenting through collecting data from various sources

• teachers enhance analyzing

skills and integrating data for use in daily life and at work

Focus on learning skills development for lifelong learning : 5 Learning Steps

Learning to Search

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Focus on learning skills development for lifelong learning : 5 Learning Steps

• focuses on students

deductive ability - ability to

form theories and others methods

• f thought construction.
• teachers play a role as

facilitators by developing discussions through debate

and reaching logical conclusions.

Focus on learning skills development for lifelong learning : 5 Learning Steps

Learning to Construct

Benjalug Namfa Ph.D. OBEC MOE Thailand

Focus on learning skills development for lifelong learning : 5 Learning Steps

• focusing on students

communication skills (oral & written)

• elevated standards of

presentation skills

Focus on learning skills development for lifelong learning : 5 Learning Steps

Learning to Communicate

• using technological aids to

enhance their communication effectiveness.

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Focus on learning skills development for lifelong learning : 5 Learning Steps

• enhance students

skills as good citizens and develop a sense

• f public service.

Focus on learning skills development for lifelong learning : 5 Learning Steps

Learning To Serve the Society

ultimate goal of education which aims to instill public awareness

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Note:

“Emotion and Cognitive Learning are not separate

entities; they work in tandem with one another”

Donna Walker Tileston, Ten best teaching practice, 2000

“In a world full of broken relationships, broken promises , and broken-hearts, a strong supportive relationship is important to students, while we cannot control the students’ environment

• utside the classroom, We have tremendous control over their

environment for 7 hours each day, We have the power to create positive or negative images about education”

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Link to HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn

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Ensure that every child reach school aged alive, healthy, and well-nourished, as well as ready and able to learn

Promoting nutrition and health for preschool and school aged children STEP ONE

Ensure that the students learn what they need to learn to become self-reliance

Improving child learning and skill development STEP TWO

Providing Greater Educational Opportunities STEP THREE

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Investing in Teacher Quality

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Sustainable Teacher Development

Learning to teach

Changing Teacher Practice!

The most difficult… but the most important

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Learning to teach

Teacher ‘s learning Experiences In-service Programs

• Learning process
• Teacher-Centered

1st year Teaching

Passive Learning Experience

12 years Schooling 4 years in Teacher Ed

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Learning to teach

Apprenticeship

• f Observation

In their long apprenticeship

• f observation as students,

teachers have acquired a mass of information about schoolteaching

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Learning to teach

Passive Learning Experience Active Learning Experience

The need to change teacher’s Practice How?

from

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Learning to teach

Sustainable Teacher Development Program

• One on One Supervision/ Coaching
• Teacher Collaboration
• Teacher as a Learner Workshop

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Learning to teach

Lesson Study School

Professional Development School

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Learning to teach

Professional Development School

• University Professor
• Master Teacher/Principal
• Student Teacher
• Students

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ตอนที่ยานอวกาศวอยยาเจอร์ 1 กําลังเดินทางออกจากระบบสุริยะ

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Family_portrait_%28Voyager_1%29.png

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.

http://www.planetary.org/explore/topics/voyager/pale_blue_dot.html

“..Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us…”

“…We strongly believe in the

power of education to help solve social problems and hopefully create a more peaceful and sustainable society in the future.”

Benjalug Namfa Ph.D. OBEC MOE Thailand

“Unless we, adults, learn to live together…… Our students will successful living together and create a sustainable future… So.. Are we ready?”

Benjalug Namfa Ph.D. OBEC MOE Thailand

“Unless we, educators, believe in education for sustainable development & learn to live together…… Our students will successful living together and create a sustainable future…

So.. Are we ready?”

Benjalug Namfa Ph.D. OBEC MOE Thailand

Thank You