The PILLARS of EDUCATION

EDU3093iTeachers & Current Challenges

Sumitra Kan F.K.

IPGKTHOJune 2015

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“Learning is a process that lasts a lifetime, both in its duration and its diversity”

~ Fuare Report, 2013

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“Curriculum” … may mean “the way educational content is organized and presented in classroom and after-school activities to meet different learning needs”.

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Should the education system be centred on:

•Economic development?•Human development?

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Leraning to know

Learning to do

Learning to live

together

Learning to be

FOUR PILLARS OF EDUCATION

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Learning to know• Acquiring the tools to understand the world• A process of dicovery

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Learning to know~ development of the faculties of:

Memory Imagination Reasoning Problem solving

Ability to think

coherently & critically

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Learning to do

Put into practice

From skills to competence

Adapt and change

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Learning to live together

Awareness & understandin

gAppreciation Cooperate Resolve

conflicts

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Learning to live togetherSelf awareness Empathy

Mutual respectcooperate

interdependence

Conflictmanagement

Peace

Harmony

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Learning to be Virtuous personality

Commitment and responsible to social roles

Develop the potential

Complete fulfilment of human

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The pillars of education :emphasis on• the development of a complete person• to resolve and manage conflicts for peace•prepare the pupils for further learning• to develop competency in adapting to

change

Sumitra Kan Fong Kuen

Reference• Faure, Edgar; Herrera, Felipe; Abdul-Razzak Kaddoura; Lopes, Henri; Petrovsky, Arthur

V.; Rahnema, Majid & Ward,Frederick Champion. (2013). Learning to be: the world of education today and tomorrow. Report of the International Commission on the Development of Education, UNESCO, Paris, 1972. Retrieved June 12, 2015 from http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002232/223222e.pdf.

• Learning to do: values for learning and working together in a globalized world. (2005). Retrieved June 12, 2015 from http://www.unevoc.net/fileadmin/user_upload/pubs/LearningToDo.pdf

• Learning together throughout our lives: Discussion kit on the Report to UNESCO of the International Commission on education for the 21st century. (1997). Retrieved June 12, 2015 from http://www.unesco.ca/en/home-accueil/resources-ressources/~/media/PDF/UNESCO/LearningTogether.ashx

• Zhou, Nan-Zhao. (). Four ‘Pillars of Learning’ for the Reorientation and Reorganization of Curriculum: Reflections and Discussions. Retrieved June 12, 2015 from http://www.ibe.unesco.org/cops/Competencies/PillarsLearningZhou.pdf.