New Delhi: A report has been published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) — Reimagining our futures together: A new social contract for education which calls for a new contract between parents, children and teachers recently.
The UNESCO has proposed to answer a few questions — What should be continued? What should be abandoned? And what needs to be creatively invented afresh?
The report was prepared following consultation with over a million participants globally. The report calls for a major transformation to repair past injustices and improve the capacity to act together for a more sustainable and just future, reported Careers360.
“That’s why we must reimagine education”, argues the report. UNESCO has called for a new social contract that will unite the world “around collective endeavours and provide the knowledge and innovation needed to shape sustainable and peaceful futures for all anchored in social, economic, and environmental justice.”
In attempts to answer the questions, the UNESCO report is of the belief that teaching needs to “move from being considered an individual practice to becoming further professionalized as a collaborative endeavour.”
The UNESCO report “is more an invitation to think and imagine than a blueprint”, and the questions should be answered in communities, countries, schools, educational programmes and systems all over the world, the UN body stated.
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