Educational Challengesfor the Global VillageBr. Armin A. Luistro FSC

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I. Roots of Lasallian Pedagogy

deeply moved by the condition of the children of

the artisans and the poor

II. Current Global State

of Education

Education for All (EFA)

“to meet the learning needs of all children, youth

and adults by 2015.”

1. Expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and

educationNo access to pre-primary ed-

ucation (2011)

50%

Not enough nourishment and remain stunted

25%

2. Ensuring that all children have access to and are able to complete primary

educationOut-of-school youth (2011)

57M

3. Equitable access to appropriate learning

and life skills programs

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

Illiterate adults

774m

5. Eliminating gender disparities and achieving gender equality in education

Secondary Level

40%

Primary Level

60%

6. Improving all aspects of the quality of education

Education for All (EFA)

NOT a single ONE of the six EFA goals

will be achieved by 2015

III. Addressing the need for Quality,

Universal Education

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

Personal Gain VS Common Good?

…ensure that our children receive an education that allows

them to become good people who practice that great commandment of love.

‘educational emergency’

Educators are called to urgently pass on to future generations the basic values of life and moral conduct.

Pope Benedict XVI

Rudolf Steiner

The primary function of education is to exercise the students’ faculties of thinking, feeling, and willing.

Lecture on Truth, Beauty and Goodness

Faculties of thinking, feeling, and willing

Thinking

Truth

Science

Feeling

Beauty

Art

Willing

Goodness

Religion

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

to become fully human

LIBERAL EDUCATION

Truth Beauty

Goodness

Thinking Feeling Willing

Science Art Religion

IV. Towards a truly Liberal Education

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

Truth

Science

Beauty

Art

Goodness

Religion

Indigenous Peoples Education (IPEd) Program in the Philippines

“Our first task…is to take off our shoes, for

the place we are approaching is holy.”

MAX WARREN

“a society respectful of

human life in all its expressions.”

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINE LANDSCAPE

V. Education for Transformation

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

Kahlil Gibran“A little knowledge

that acts is worth infinitely more than

much knowledge that is idle.”

VI. Opportunities for Collaboration and

Innovation

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

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

The Department of Education Philippines’ Twitter page.

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

How can the network of educators gathered here today ACT on the global

problem of 57 million children who are out of school?

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

Maraming Salamat po!Thank you very much!