UNESCO: International Commission on the Futures of Education. 2020. Education in a post-COVID world: Nine ideas for public action
The global pandemic has shone a harsh light on the vulnerabilities and challenges humanity faces, and made clear the importance of addressing the education of more than 1.5 billion students whose learning has been hampered due to school closures.
In response to this challenge, UNESCO’s International Commission on the Futures of Education recently published a report on Education in a post-COVID world: Nine ideas for public action. The report presents nine key ideas for navigating through the Covid-19 crisis and its aftermath, contending that we cannot forget core principles and known strengths as we face unprecedented disruption to economies, societies and – in particular – education systems.
The International Commission on the Futures of Education, chaired by the President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Ms. Sahle-Work Zewde, was established by UNESCO in 2019. Its mission is to reimagine how knowledge and learning can shape the future of humanity and the planet, and it includes extensive public and expert engagement aiming to catalyse a global debate on how education needs to be rethought in a world of increasing complexity, uncertainty, and fragility.
You can read the report in English here and in French here. Translations in Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian will be available on the Future of Education website soon.
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