Recognizing the importance of advancing global citizenship education, the Department of Education (DepEd) has relaunched a learning series that aims to provide a platform to raise awareness and strengthen the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Global Citizenship Education (GCED).
DepEd, through the International Cooperation Office (ICO), announced the conduct of the ICO-KPTEP 4th learning series as a call to action for caring, participative, relevant, and responsive online learning and development opportunities for teachers.
Education Secretary Leonor Briones underscored the importance of advancing Global Citizenship Education as a priority for the education sector.
“In our current situation, where we continue to battle the biggest challenge, we need to be involved more than ever,” Briones said. “Our learners should be ready to be citizens of the world,” she added.
ICO-KPTEP 4th learning series also looks to exchange innovative and promising approaches on how to fully harness the potential of the four pillars of learning to support SDGs and Global Citizenship and use ICT as a platform for online collaboration and learning.
DepEd said that each session will be facilitated by representatives from the division and by the KPTEP alumni.
Moreover, the learning series will also tackle various topics such as GCED, transformative education, inclusive education, and sustainable development for youth.
“A global citizen is a member of the entirety of the human race and is prepared to act on what they believe in,” ICO Director Margarita Consolacion Ballesteros said.
“A global citizen knows that they are a citizen of the world not only their countries, they know to engage, converse, and take part in solving the world's greatest challenges,” she added.
The lecture series started on April 22 and will run until November 24, 2022.
The season launch of the ICO-KPTEP learning series coincides with the 10th anniversary of the Asia-Pacific Teacher Exchange for Global Education (APTE) which is a bilateral teacher exchange program between the Republic of Korea and its Asia Pacific partner.