UN / TRANSFORMING EDUCATION PRESSER
04-Aug-2023
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Leonardo Garnier, UN special adviser on transforming education said that transforming education to create a truly inclusive learning society is “critical for building a more just and sustainable future” and a global responsibility. UNIFEED
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DATELINE: 04 AUGUST 2023, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 04 AUGUST 2023, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
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RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
04 AUGUST 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Leonardo Garnier, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Transforming Education Summit:
“Education is a global public good. This provision and quality affect us all in a world ever more connected to markets, technology and immigration, as well as affected together by climate change, war and refugee crisis.”
4. Wide shot, press briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Leonardo Garnier, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Transforming Education Summit:
“Transforming education to create a truly inclusive learning society is critical for building a more just and sustainable future and this should be our global responsibility.”
6. Wide shot, press briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Leonardo Garnier, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Transforming Education Summit:
“We must move away from the traditional static vision of education and towards adaptable learner-centered and effective lifelong learning systems in order to create truly learning societies. Second, ensuring equality and inclusion in and through education. Schools must become more inclusive, safe, healthy and stimulating learning environments that support equality and inclusion for all, especially those of marginalized or excluded such as rural populations, low-income households, migrants, refugees and displaced persons and people experiencing discrimination on the grounds of disability, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity.”
8. Wide shot, press briefing room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Leonardo Garnier, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Transforming Education Summit:
“Curriculum must be relevant for today and for the future with a particular focus on education for sustainable development and fostering a culture of civic responsibility, peace and respect for human diversity. Fourth, transforming teachers and teaching. We must reposition the role of teachers from passive to non-unilateral purveyors of information into active and inclusive guides of their students learning adventure. For that we must improve their working conditions, ensuring fair pay and the fulfilling and engaging professional experience.”
10. Wide shot, press briefing room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Leonardo Garnier, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Transforming Education Summit:
“Fifth, harnessing the digital revolution. We must ensure that both connectivity and high quality curriculum relevant digital content are available to all learners and teachers. We also need to strengthen the capacity to effectively leverage digital tools for evidence-based and increasingly independent learning throughout life. We must develop a public open-source Digital Commons in line with the proposals contained in the policy briefing on the Global Digital Compact.”
12. Wide shot, press briefing room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Leonardo Garnier, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Transforming Education Summit:
“Sixth, investing more - more equitably, and more efficiently in education. Governments must abandon short-term thinking and reframe their approach to financing of education as a crucial investment with high positive externalities and significant medium and long term returns.”
14. Wide shot, press briefing room
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Stefania Giannini, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Education:
“It's about moving from a culture of reforming education systems to a culture of transformation. And this means not simply change by incremental steps rather than better versions of existing system and transformation must result in education systems different from today.”
16. Wide shot, press briefing room
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
04 AUGUST 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Leonardo Garnier, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Transforming Education Summit:
“Education is a global public good. This provision and quality affect us all in a world ever more connected to markets, technology and immigration, as well as affected together by climate change, war and refugee crisis.”
4. Wide shot, press briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Leonardo Garnier, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Transforming Education Summit:
“Transforming education to create a truly inclusive learning society is critical for building a more just and sustainable future and this should be our global responsibility.”
6. Wide shot, press briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Leonardo Garnier, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Transforming Education Summit:
“We must move away from the traditional static vision of education and towards adaptable learner-centered and effective lifelong learning systems in order to create truly learning societies. Second, ensuring equality and inclusion in and through education. Schools must become more inclusive, safe, healthy and stimulating learning environments that support equality and inclusion for all, especially those of marginalized or excluded such as rural populations, low-income households, migrants, refugees and displaced persons and people experiencing discrimination on the grounds of disability, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity.”
8. Wide shot, press briefing room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Leonardo Garnier, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Transforming Education Summit:
“Curriculum must be relevant for today and for the future with a particular focus on education for sustainable development and fostering a culture of civic responsibility, peace and respect for human diversity. Fourth, transforming teachers and teaching. We must reposition the role of teachers from passive to non-unilateral purveyors of information into active and inclusive guides of their students learning adventure. For that we must improve their working conditions, ensuring fair pay and the fulfilling and engaging professional experience.”
10. Wide shot, press briefing room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Leonardo Garnier, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Transforming Education Summit:
“Fifth, harnessing the digital revolution. We must ensure that both connectivity and high quality curriculum relevant digital content are available to all learners and teachers. We also need to strengthen the capacity to effectively leverage digital tools for evidence-based and increasingly independent learning throughout life. We must develop a public open-source Digital Commons in line with the proposals contained in the policy briefing on the Global Digital Compact.”
12. Wide shot, press briefing room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Leonardo Garnier, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Transforming Education Summit:
“Sixth, investing more - more equitably, and more efficiently in education. Governments must abandon short-term thinking and reframe their approach to financing of education as a crucial investment with high positive externalities and significant medium and long term returns.”
14. Wide shot, press briefing room
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Stefania Giannini, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Education:
“It's about moving from a culture of reforming education systems to a culture of transformation. And this means not simply change by incremental steps rather than better versions of existing system and transformation must result in education systems different from today.”
16. Wide shot, press briefing room
STORYLINE
Leonardo Garnier, UN special adviser on transforming education said that transforming education to create a truly inclusive learning society is “critical for building a more just and sustainable future” and a global responsibility.
Speaking today (04 Aug) in New York, Leonardo Garnier, the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Transforming Education Summit briefed reporters on the Our Common Agenda on Transforming Education.
Building on the Transforming Education Summit and the report of the International Commission on the Futures of Education, the policy brief examines the current crisis in education in more detail and puts forward a vision and a set of guiding actions for countries and the international community to transform education.
The Special Advisor said, “Education is a global public good. This provision and quality affect us all in a world ever more connected to markets, technology and immigration, as well as affected together by climate change, war and refugee crisis.”
The policy introduced a new vision for the creation of learning societies centred on six principles.
First is building an integrated system of education and lifelong learning in a world of uncertainty, Garnier said.
He explained, “We must move away from the traditional static vision of education and towards adaptable learner-centered and effective lifelong learning systems in order to create truly learning societies.”
Second is ensuring equality and inclusion in and through education.
“Schools must become more inclusive, safe, healthy and stimulating learning environments that support equality and inclusion for all, especially those of marginalized or excluded such as rural populations, low-income households, migrants, refugees and displaced persons and people experiencing discrimination on the grounds of disability, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity,” the Special Adviser said.
On the third principle, Garnier said, “Curriculum must be relevant for today and for the future with a particular focus on education for sustainable development and fostering a culture of civic responsibility, peace and respect for human diversity.”
Fourth is transforming teachers and teaching.
The Special Adviser reiterated, “We must reposition the role of teachers from passive to non-unilateral purveyors of information into active and inclusive guides of their students learning adventure. For that we must improve their working conditions, ensuring fair pay and the fulfilling and engaging professional experience.”
Harnessing the digital revolution is the fifth principle.
“We must ensure that both connectivity and high-quality curriculum relevant digital content are available to all learners and teachers,” Garnier said.
He added, “We also need to strengthen the capacity to effectively leverage digital tools for evidence-based and increasingly independent learning throughout life. We must develop a public open-source Digital Commons in line with the proposals contained in the policy briefing on the Global Digital Compact.”
“Sixth, investing more - more equitably, and more efficiently in education,” the Special Adviser also said.
He highlighted that Governments must abandon short-term thinking and reframe their approach to financing of education as a crucial investment with high positive externalities and significant medium- and long-term returns.
Stefania Giannini, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Education, also briefed the reporters.
She said, “It's about moving from a culture of reforming education systems to a culture of transformation. And this means not simply change by incremental steps rather than better versions of existing system and transformation must result in education systems different from today.”
The Summit of the Future will be held 22-23 September 2024. Practical consultations on preparations for the Summit has begun in February 2023.
The Summit will build upon the SDG Summit and breathe new life into the multilateral system so that it can deliver on the promises of the United Nations Charter and the 2030 Agenda.
Speaking today (04 Aug) in New York, Leonardo Garnier, the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Transforming Education Summit briefed reporters on the Our Common Agenda on Transforming Education.
Building on the Transforming Education Summit and the report of the International Commission on the Futures of Education, the policy brief examines the current crisis in education in more detail and puts forward a vision and a set of guiding actions for countries and the international community to transform education.
The Special Advisor said, “Education is a global public good. This provision and quality affect us all in a world ever more connected to markets, technology and immigration, as well as affected together by climate change, war and refugee crisis.”
The policy introduced a new vision for the creation of learning societies centred on six principles.
First is building an integrated system of education and lifelong learning in a world of uncertainty, Garnier said.
He explained, “We must move away from the traditional static vision of education and towards adaptable learner-centered and effective lifelong learning systems in order to create truly learning societies.”
Second is ensuring equality and inclusion in and through education.
“Schools must become more inclusive, safe, healthy and stimulating learning environments that support equality and inclusion for all, especially those of marginalized or excluded such as rural populations, low-income households, migrants, refugees and displaced persons and people experiencing discrimination on the grounds of disability, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity,” the Special Adviser said.
On the third principle, Garnier said, “Curriculum must be relevant for today and for the future with a particular focus on education for sustainable development and fostering a culture of civic responsibility, peace and respect for human diversity.”
Fourth is transforming teachers and teaching.
The Special Adviser reiterated, “We must reposition the role of teachers from passive to non-unilateral purveyors of information into active and inclusive guides of their students learning adventure. For that we must improve their working conditions, ensuring fair pay and the fulfilling and engaging professional experience.”
Harnessing the digital revolution is the fifth principle.
“We must ensure that both connectivity and high-quality curriculum relevant digital content are available to all learners and teachers,” Garnier said.
He added, “We also need to strengthen the capacity to effectively leverage digital tools for evidence-based and increasingly independent learning throughout life. We must develop a public open-source Digital Commons in line with the proposals contained in the policy briefing on the Global Digital Compact.”
“Sixth, investing more - more equitably, and more efficiently in education,” the Special Adviser also said.
He highlighted that Governments must abandon short-term thinking and reframe their approach to financing of education as a crucial investment with high positive externalities and significant medium- and long-term returns.
Stefania Giannini, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Education, also briefed the reporters.
She said, “It's about moving from a culture of reforming education systems to a culture of transformation. And this means not simply change by incremental steps rather than better versions of existing system and transformation must result in education systems different from today.”
The Summit of the Future will be held 22-23 September 2024. Practical consultations on preparations for the Summit has begun in February 2023.
The Summit will build upon the SDG Summit and breathe new life into the multilateral system so that it can deliver on the promises of the United Nations Charter and the 2030 Agenda.
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