Physical Education for Healthier, Happier, Longer, and More Productive Living
The time children and adults all over the world spend engaging in physical activity is decreasing with dire consequences on their health, life expectancy, and ability to perform in the classroom, in society and at work. In a new publication, Quality Physical Education, Guidelines for Policy Makers, UNESCO urges governments and educational planners to reverse this trend, […]
Involving Youth in the Sustainable Development Goals: the ECOSOC Youth Forum
From the 2nd to the 3rd of February, the ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council) Youth Forum brought together UN Member States, UN agencies, youth delegates, representatives of youth organisations and other young people in the UN Headquarters in New York City. The sessions focused on youth engagement in the transition from MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) to SDGs […]
Integral Science for Global Education
Integral Science for Global Education Amrit Srecko Sorli obtained engineer degree back in 1980 at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His main research areas are dynamic quantum vacuum, cosmology, time, gravity, Relativity Theory, Theory of everything, bijective epistemology, transpersonal psychology, consciousness research, philosophy of science. Amrit co-founded SpaceLife Institute back in 2000 with Italian […]
GLOBAL REPORT ON OUT-OF-SCHOOL CHILDREN
Adolescents Twice as Likely to Be Out of School as Children of Primary School Age, Say UNESCO and UNICEF New report shows why ‘business as usual’ won’t lead to universal primary or secondary education Around 63 million adolescents between the ages of 12 and 15 years are denied their right to an education, according to […]
Second UNESCO Forum on Global Citizenship Education (GCED) Building Peaceful and Sustainable Societies: Preparing for Post-2015
Download final report here On the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of UNESCO Second UNESCO Forum on Global Citizenship Education (GCED) Building peaceful and sustainable societies: preparing for post-2015 In support of the UN Secretary-General’s Global Education First Initiative (GEFI) 28-30 January 2015, Room XI, UNESCO HQ, Paris Organized by the Division of Education for […]
Other Place on the Globe. Education of Children in Montenegro
An exclusive Interview with Jasmina Kalezic a Montenegrin Teacher and Children Rights Activist, by: Kaveh Taheri Introduction: – Unlike other countries of the Balkan Peninsula, Montenegro was able to maintain its independence from the Ottoman Empire. From the 16th to 19th centuries, Montenegro became a theocratic state ruled by a series of bishop princes; […]
ASTRONOMY IN THE FRAME OF THE TRANSDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION
Magda Stavinschi Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy E-mail: magda_stavinschi@yahoo.fr / Web: www.astro.ro/magda . Mirela Mureșan Institutional Filiation Moise Nicoara College, Arad, Romania E-mail: mirela_muresan@hotmail.com . ABSTRACT This paper aims to point out the unexpected and generous perspectives the transdisciplinarity approach can bring to the astronomical education. 1. What does transdisciplinarity really mean? Will try to […]
La solidaridad: una visión social e histórica
Alejandro Sánchez Ródenas Graduado en Historia en la Universidad de Alicante. Mestrando en Máster para Profesor de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria y Bachillerato, Formación Profesional y Enseñanzas de Idiomas en la Universidad de Salamanca. Email: alex_piru13@hotmail.com . Adrián Matea Zoroa Graduado en Trabajo Social en la Universidad de Alicante. Mestrando en Máster de Servicios Públicos y […]
Monitoring the Greek Case during the Financial Crisis
Athanasia Zagorianou Strathclyde University, Master in Human Rights Law, Researcher & Member, Trustees Council, Citizens’ Rights Watch (CRW) E-mail: nassia_izago@yahoo.gr, / zagorianoua@gmail.com . Abstract In the effort to inform, condemn and most importantly prevent global poverty this paper examines the promises and policies of Greek politicians during the Greek crisis and its social effects and consequences […]
A Need for a Convention on International Solidarity
Javier Molero Segovia Colaborador de la Oficina de Derechos Humanos en el Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación del Gobierno de España . . ”Law should help us to build a more solidarity world instead of restrain solidarity”. This affirmation is self-evident and everybody would agree with it, but unfortunately, it is not […]
