summit experience of inclusive education the UN – Observer
Portugal commits to UN education with its experiences with inclusive education policies and its experiences with inclusive education policies and affirms that the education minister remains at the forefront” of educational transformations, he told education.
The Summit on Education Transformation 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 until Monday in New York to support the transformation of education throughout the world. the world, as well as members of Government, from whom a series of National Declarations of Commitment is 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 measure plays a very important role insofar as the countries approach together, which was based on important national consultations with all the agents of the system: representatives of teachers, organizations, indials, those in charge of schools, families, students, Organizations and non-governmental organizations will return to thinking about education”, explains 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 that, others, make the digital revolution how we relate and with the information, and that, , has consequences for the way we design educational systems”, observed.
Among the obstacles to Education, João Costa mentioned the inequality of Covid-19 and the inequalities it created, arguing that if educational systems were not designed with a view to inequalities and the fight against inequalities, then “they have no quality, practice, or 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 there is a crisis of representatives all over the world to be a teacher. In countries, we are facing problems of lack of teachers and this is an opportunity to revisit this profession, because they are different demands from democratic educational systems as systems that only responded to the demands of the elites and, obviously, are all this to 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 as intergenerational translation” or “inclusive education”.
“Portugal has been, and this is recognized by UNESCO, by the United Nations itself, in the line of transformations. It is not by chance – and this is not understood as immodesty on the part of the Government – that we have been called at various preparatory events, and also at this summit, to participate in panels, to lead discussions, for example, in the involvement of young people, students, in intergenerational dialogue, in the progressive character of our inclusive education policies”, said the official.
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 create a curriculum of inclusion and promotion of equity.
“We were able to exchange a few, not just the purpose of this Summit, but above all answers on the pillars of citizenship, which are adopted in the area of school success, inclusion and equitable education of Portuguese education and citizenship, which are recognized and recognized of citizenship. Already well advanced in Portugal for some of these challenges that the Summit intends to challenge”, she indicated.
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.