Summary So Far By now—if you have read the previous articles that outline the eight pathways to a new planetary paradigm of education—a vision of the future of global education has begun to crystallize. Briefly put, I have roughly suggested an educational system that: Emphasizes the cultivation of a multi-dimensional ecological relatedness. Works to counter […]

“A refugee is someone who survived and who can create the future”. —Amela Koluder According to pre-Ukrainian war figures from UNHCR, there are currently around 7.4 million school-age refugees, of which 3.7 million are out of school entirely. It has been estimated that 63% of refugees are enrolled in primary schools, only 24% in secondary school,

“The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries”. —Muhammad Yunus From West-Centric to World-Centric Education “In their countries, but also in the world at large”, one may add to the above quote by

“Learning is life’s most important skill.” —Tony Buzan The Inner Development Goals of Education Ithas been emphasized, in my studies and elsewhere, in more ways than we can give justice to, that conventional education is too cerebral; too much focused on mental and cognitive capacities, and that it is often blind to learning goals that

“Can we go from f*ck the system, to love the system? In China, the latter is being explored. The problem there, of course, is that it’s a system even less worthy of our love. For a system to be loved, it must merit our love. And a social system—educational systems included—merits our love by being

“To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground”. — Stephen Covey Grounding Education in Human Interaction In a very general sense, education is a social undertaking; it is fundamentally about humans that interact in a manner that helps people to grow and to learn, building on the human capacity

“Technology is not neutral. We’re inside of what we make, and it’s inside of us. We’re living in a world of connections—and it matters which ones get made and unmade”. —Donna Haraway Turning the Tide from Disruption to Educational Potential Itwould be a bleak reality if technology offered only challenges and disruptions to education that