summit experience of inclusive education at the UN
ONE The Education Transformation Summit is one of the main events of the 77th United Nations General Assembly and will bring together young people, teachers, civil society and other organizations in New York from Monday to Monday to support the transformation of education across the world. world, as well as members of Government, from whom a series of National Declarations of Commitment are expected.
In New York, João Costa, who is a revolution in the entire world of Education, that is, a series of professors, UN professors, who motivate the entire career of the Summit, UN professors, who motivate the entire career of the Education Summit. to “reaffirm Portugal’s commitments” to these challenges.
“This aggregation plays a very important role insofar as countries cover their base in a joint reflection, which was based on national consultations with all actors in the education system: representatives of teachers, union organizations, school protégés, families, students, companies and non-governmental organizations, in a return to thinking about education”, explained the regulator.
“And this rethinking about education is important, because we certainly make moments of great social transformation, we make the digital revolution part of our lives, and with that, other moments, how we relate and with information, and that, , has consequences for the way we design educational systems”, observed.
Among the obstacles to education, João Costa mentioned that of covid-19 and the inequalities it made, arguing that if educational systems were not designed to accentuate and combat inequalities, then “they have neither quality, measure, nor efficiency”. “.
In addition, the Summit – convened by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres – also aims to discuss the teaching career itself.
“We know that we are in a crisis of problems for an opportunity of different countries. such as requirements in systems that only responded to the elites and, obviously, all this is a rethinking of education”, said the minister.
In this sense, João Costa believes that Portugal can contribute to “educational transformations, taking into account its experience recognized by various international bodies in terms of intergenerational transformation” or “inclusive education”.
“Portugal has been, and this is recognized by UNESCO, even by the United Nations, at the forefront of some preparatory changes, and also at this summit, participating in panels, leading discussions, involving young people, students, in dialogue intergenerational, in the progressive character of our policies of inclusive education”, affirmed the minister.
Therefore, Portugal “will reaffirm its commitment to these challenges” and intends to “continue in the front line in which it has been”, advocated the person responsible for the protection of Education.
On Friday, the first day of the Summit, João Costa had the opportunity to meet with António Guterres, in a meeting where ideas were exchanged on the pillars of Portuguese educational policy and in which the minister had the opportunity to explain the “very “ambitious” of Portuguese schools, to make the curriculum one of inclusion and promotion of a space for equity.
“We were able to change a few times, not only the purpose of this Summit, but mainly responses on the pillars of citizenship, which are adopted in the area of school success, inclusion and equitable Portuguese education and citizenship, which are recognized and developed, from the citizenship. Already well advanced in Portugal for some challenges that the Summit intends to challenge”, he said.
Even so, the minister of the course, ministered it to students of the United Nations International School, on the day of visiting the students, with the opportunity to visit the students, who accompanied the local professors to Nova, and also if an event with the professors of Nova York, and if it still happens with the teachers of New York, and if it still happens with the teachers. and Lusophone students residing in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut area.
“It is very impressive how the teaching of Portuguese is growing in the United States, thanks to the work of several agents, with a progressive curricular integration, that is, a reduction of community schools and an increase in the integration of Portuguese in the curriculum of the states and particularly in public schools in the United States”, evaluated João Costa.
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