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Theme: Education
Articles in English related to this theme:
Universal, Plural and Quality Education, and Citizen Education
Policy Paper on Education: Building the Future through Quality Education
¤ Education International ¤ 16 February 2014
Education International (EI) has decided, after eighteen years of policy making through its Congresses and Conferences at the international and regional levels, to develop a comprehensive policy on education. This policy will encapsulate the very essence of what has made EI what it is today and reflect the goals which should underpin an education that is consistent with EI’s traditions.
This policy challenges explicitly the narrow, instrumentalist view of education as solely teaching (...) read more
Digital Publishing in Developing Countries
¤ Octavio Kulesz ¤ 17 July 2011
E-books, print on demand, online sales sites, the boom in mobile phones… new technologies are profoundly transforming the way texts circulate. Developing countries, however, which face serious limitations in infrastructure, have a considerable challenge ahead of them.
What new actors are emerging in the countries of the South, outside of the powerful platforms already existing in the US, Europe and Japan? Is it conceivable that there may be an autonomous evolution of digital publications in (...) read more
The State of the Right to Education Worldwide: Free or Fee
¤ Katerina Tomasevski ¤ 14 April 2008
This report concerns the state of primary education around the world in a country basis. Primary education is the focus of the report because the original reasons for declaring it to be each child’s birthright remain unchanged, despite the fact that actually in many poor countries children could not go to primary school because it is priced out of their reach.
The laws, policies and practices in 170 individual countries have been examined to document whether the right to education is (...) read more
Can We Close the Education Gap?
¤ Global Future ¤ September 2007
The right to an education is recognized as one of the most fundamental human rights, benefiting individuals and strengthening whole communities and civilizations. Access to education for all is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and national laws. In Millennium Development Goal 2, governments have pledged to ensure that all girls and boys complete a full course of primary schooling; Goal 3 and the "Education For All" goals (...) read more
Education International’s Response to the Global Monitoring Report 2006 on "Literacy for Life"
¤ Education International ¤ September 2006
The world is more than five years, one third of the total period, on its way towards achieving Education For All (EFA), one of the Millennium Development Goals. In light of this, the UN Global Monitoring Report (GMR) 2006 examines progress on making the goals on EFA - set down at the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000 - a reality.
Education International (EI) decided in 2000 to annually produce a report which would provide an update on progress made and challenges still ahead with (...) read more
Seven Complex Lessons in Education for the Future
¤ Edgar Morin ¤ October 1999
If we want the Earth to be able to meet the needs of its human population, society must undergo a transformation. Thus, tomorrow’s world must be fundamentally different than the one we know today. We must therefore work toward building a “feasible future.” Democracy, equality and social justice, and peace and harmony with our natural environment: these must be the key words for this future world. In this context, UNESCO asked Edgar Morin to express his ideas in the very essence of future (...) read more
Governance of Science, Education, Information, and Communication
An Open Letter to the Commoners and Co-operators of the World
¤ John Restakis,
Michel Bauwens ¤ 14 December 2013
Dear Global Co-operators and Commoners,
In a speech on Sept. 19, 2012, President Correa of Ecuador appealed to the young people of his country to fight for and realize a vision of “good living” based on a commons-based and open knowledge society. The FLOK Society project (Free/Libre Open Knowledge) has been created to propose a transition plan and a policy framework to achieve this unique vision. In accordance with [Ecuador’s National Planhttp://buenvivir.gob.ec/versiones-plan-nacional], (...) read more
Managing Territories, Cities, and the Rural World
Territories: Paradigm Shifts That Need to Be Made for the Transition
¤ Pierre Calame ¤ 11 March 2012
The following text is a summary of a number of proposals. It addresses only proposals for paradigm shifts, and not for the numerous improvements that could be made to the existing systems.
A/ What is at stake for territories
1. The territory, a hub of relations and flows in a globalized system.
Territories are objectively called to play a decisive role in designing and conducting the necessary transition. Whatever the subject, we discover that a city and a region are the best scale at (...) read more
Rural Areas and World Governance
¤ Matthieu Calame ¤ 15 November 2010
Rural areas include managed forested areas, farming areas, and settled areas. These areas offer a huge diversity of situations, from prosperous zones to those in decline, from sparsely populated areas, possibly on the point of being abandoned, to zones of high population density that are very active, with a network of towns and trade activities.
These areas share a common set of challenges that they all have to face:
– using farming, forestry and freshwater fish-farming to manage (...) read more
Document Database
Participate in the Drafting and Circulation of the Charter of the Peoples of the Earth
¤ Gustavo Marin ¤ 28 December 2011
The Peoples Summit at Rio+20 deserves a Charter to leave the stamp of a written “footprint” of the historical demands of those who will participate on site and from afar in this event. At every moment of history that has marked a big change, peoples have sought to express their visions of the future in a Carta Magna, Declarations, and/or Manifestos.
The Charter of the Peoples of the Earth is inspired from the historical South African Freedom Charter, which was the banner of the (...) read more
Charter of the Peoples of the Earth
¤ Citizen Assemblies,
FnWG Team ¤ 30 June 2011
First draft. January 2011
If you wish to contribute
to the debate and enrich
this Charter proposal,
you can subscribe by writing to
A Charter project to join the Peoples together and start a debate
In these times of uncertainties and global challenges, it is imperative that citizens, the men and women who make up the endless mosaic of the Peoples of the World, can shape their own fate and together develop the values and principles that will guide the human adventure of the (...) read more
Youth and World Governance
¤ John Anugraha ¤ 2 November 2009
Albert Einstein was only 25 years old when he wrote his famous theory of relativity. Gandhi was about 25 years old when he helped to found the Natal Indian Congress, which molded the Indian community of South Africa into a homogeneous political force before he moved on to fight for the freedom of India. Che Guevara was about 28 years old when he joined Fidel Castro’s revolutionary movement for the freedom of Cuba. Nelson Mandela was about 30 years old when as a leader he was spearheading the (...) read more
Environmental Governance and Managing the Earth
Proposals for a Fair and Democratic Architecture of Power
¤ Arnaud Blin,
Cândido Grzybowski,
Gustavo Marin,
Jorge Romano,
Ricardo Jiménez ¤ 24 December 2011
Building new governance is not only an institutional or theoretical question confined to the political or sociological spheres. All governance proposals and plans depend on the action and mobilization of a huge majority of people, actors, movements and populations. This is a critical issue. And ideas and proposals play a crucial role in such action and mobilization. This is why we need to remodel governance architecture by incorporating it into the perspective of biocivilization for the (...) read more
Rethinking and Changing World Governance
¤ Gustavo Marin ¤ 30 September 2011
See also:
The Workshop
Video on the Workshop
September 3, 2011
following on from the
Biocivilization for the
Sustainability of Life
and the Planet
Rio de Janeiro, 10-12 August 2011*
Contents
Rethinking and changing world governance
Actors: their relations, their contradictions
1. Transnational corporations (TNCs)
2. The state
?dialectic between society and the state
? role of the UN
? China
3. People, communities, civil society, and a new relationship with nature
4. Local (...) read more
The Challenge of Environmental Governance
¤ Germà Pelayo ¤ 3 December 2009
The United Nations Climate Summit (Copenhagen, December 7-18, 2009) is our last chance to obtain an indispensable agreement to renew and deepen the Kyoto Protocol, which runs to 2012 and has turned out to be insufficient to deal with the disastrous evolution of climate change, with environmental deterioration now worse, in some cases, than the most ominous forecasts.
In the lead-up the summit, the heads of the main industrial powers, including for the first time China, have entered into a (...) read more
Legal Principles of a New World Governance
The Great Together
¤ Confucius,
Los Cuatro Payasos Muertos,
Traversées,
Wikipedia ¤ 7 June 2011
Confucius (?? -k?ngz?-, literally “Master Kong”) (September 28, 551 B.C. - 479 BC) was a Chinese thinker, the creator of Confucianism, and one of the most influential figures in Chinese history. The teachings of Confucius have survived thanks to his Anaclets, which contain some of the discussions he had with his disciples.
Biography
Confucius was born in the town of Qufu in the former state of Lu, now part of the Shandong Province, in the Kong family, a noble family of landowners. His (...) read more
Nature of Work and Globalization of Social Rights
Extreme Poverty and World Governance
¤ Hugues de Courtivron,
Thierry Viard,
Xavier Godinot ¤ 2 May 2011
The proposals outlined in this Paper have twin aims. On the one hand, to place the eradication of extreme poverty at the heart of the political goals pursued by a renewed world governance. On the other hand, to recognize the participation of the poorest members of humanity in elaborating new principles or shaping future world governance as an essential condition in the success of the enterprise.
The Paper is based primarily on Xavier Godinot’s observations and proposals in his book (...) read more
The New Roles of States and Territorial Scales
What Europe does the world need?
¤ Pierre Calame ¤ 6 June 2010
We often find ourselves asking the question: what Europe do we want? The time may have come to look at the question the other way round, and ask ourselves: what Europe does the world need?
Does the world even need Europe? It would be fair to say that today’s mood is one of disillusionment, and that the prospects for the European Union do not look very heartening. For its founding fathers, building the European Union was a major feat. They saw the Union as the means to move beyond the (...) read more
Concepts
Global Governance
¤ Wikipedia ¤ 5 August 2009
(Also available at wikicoredem) Global governance is the political interaction of transnational actors aimed at solving problems that affect more than one state or region when there is no power of enforcing compliance. The question of world governance arises in the context of what is known as globalization. In response to the acceleration of interdependences on a worldwide scale, both between human societies and between humankind and the biosphere, world governance designates regulations intended for the global (...) read more
Governance of Scientific and Technological Innovations
Community-Engaged Research: a step forward
¤ Josep Lobera ¤ 14 March 2009
In the last years, we are witnessing a strong emergence of diverse Community-Engaged Research programmes. Community-based research seeks to democratize knowledge creation by validating multiple sources of knowledge. An agreement to create a Global Alliance on Community-Engaged Research was released at the end of the Community-University Exposition 2008.
Public engagement was a strong feature of the different science fields from their birth. Scientists today contribute to public (...) read more
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Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPTRANS)
The Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS) at the University of Wollongong is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Key Centre for Teaching and Research established in 1999. CAPSTRANS is one of Australia’s pre-eminent research centres for the intensive focus on social, cultural, economic, political and historical transformations in the Asia Pacific region. Related themes:
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