The GCED online campus course is a very good platform especially for teachers across the world to learn about global citizenship education in great detail –the world we live in, the education we need, understanding GCED within SDG, and many more are connected as one lesson.
Through the video lessons, I have learnt many things regarding GCED and its implications. The most important thing I have learnt is how to teach GCED effectively in a classroom setting professionally and more effectively.
Although, it is a wide concept but we live in an interconnected and interdependent world sharing everything directly or indirectly –beyond one's own community.
As a teacher myself, I feel it is time and opportunity to teach and learn about global challenges we are facing today and consequences that we will be reaping in times to come (future). I would educate my students about the very basic values to save our resources for future generations. My lessons would comprise local to national to international values like –what happens in Korea, happens in Bhutan and vice versa. We can never say I belong to one community and the other is none of my business. It is also important to transfer values like there is to human beings, so are the other animals below the water that also need the same thing to survive –they also like peace and justice.
With globalization everywhere what one does in a small community affects the whole world in great ways. Nevertheless, it is important to think about a sense of belonging to the global community and common humanity rather than a legal status. Lessons like one’s own civic responsibility beyond national borders to the global community can better save our planet for all times. Nevertheless, if we act on time as one nation, we can easily solve all these global issues of climate change, economic trend, trade war, migration, poverty and wealth, sustainable development, and terrorism issues. Thus, imparting lessons on such issues at local level to national then to global level would greatly enhance the understanding of one's own citizenship because it broadens one's participation in the greater circle of society, acting beyond one's immediate community.
As an education institution, school and teachers play a vital role in disseminating the indispensable role of education in building a culture of peace not only among people of the national community but also across the world. Through the video lessons, I get to know human right education, citizenship education, values education, peace education, and SDG education, etc., which I can also teach to my students and get their feelings on the same topic and build some simple promises to make this world a better place to live forever happily.
As suggested in some of the video lessons, I have come to realize the role of individual citizens, as a teacher, parents and leaders about my role as a community citizen, national citizen and global citizens. Accordingly I must act as a responsible citizen not only to teach but also to learn myself. I also come to know that UNESCO/APCEIU is doing their best in capacity building on the culture of peace not only to Korean people but also to a global community through discriminating information regarding global citizens and their right to live in a more just and peaceful world. At the same time it is necessary for all of us to behave like global citizens and become better human beings in all kinds. Through the video lessons, I was reminded about cultivating inner peace, what it is to live in harmony with the earth, promoting human rights and responsibilities, and dismantling culture of war from the human mind and I strongly feel that all these issues are the sole duty of every citizen despite the race and region we live in.
For now and later I will act as a good and strong bridge between the UNESCO mission of peace with my students and my nation. And I have strong feelings about living the way we want but at the same time protecting nature and the environment like oneness is most important.
GCED also gives a platform for all of us to realize our own competencies to solve global problems and to realize the rights and obligations to promote a better world and future. As a teacher, I can play a vital role in passing this entire message not only in a formal setting but also in a non-formal setting to colleagues and communities so that my problem becomes everyone's problem.
Rather than just focusing on one classroom and community within the bookish lessons, we must also teach them about one's beliefs and values for social and political decision-making at national and global levels, and the challenges for governance of contrasting and conflicting beliefs and values. Therefore, they would develop their understanding of social justice issues in local, national and global contexts and how these are interconnected. In this way I am sure values and attitudes to care for others and the environment would greatly enhance. These include compassion, empathy, collaboration, dialogue, and active participation from every citizen.
For all humanity despite race and region, we need a peaceful world to live in and clean air to breathe and safe drinking water. Therefore, I have my right to Live, so do you and everyone around. However, everyone has an equal right to protect this world that we live in.
Should there be any lesson, GCED can define all???
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