Global Citizenship Education

India holds an important place in the global education industry. The country has more than 1.4 million schools with over 227 million students enrolled and more than 36,000 higher education institutes. India has one of the largest higher education systems in the world. However, there is still a lot of potential for further development in the education system

The power of raising awareness about global education and sustainable development

Educating and Training to Save Lives This first World Tsunami Awareness Day will focus on education and evacuation drills : two areas where UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission has been at the forefront. These two themes come together in the Japanese story " Inamura no Hi ", which tells how a farmer anticipated the 1854 Ansei Nankai earthquake and tsunami, and saved his fellow villagers by burning his entire rice crop to alert them to the danger. The "Inamura no Hi" story exemplifies the power of knowledgeable citizens to save lives. Education, community awareness of tsunami risk and preparedness go hand in hand with the development of Tsunami Warning Systems. After all, a perfect warning will be useless if people do not know what to do in case of an emergency.

Make sure the teachers are well educated, trained, qualified and are a helping hand in achieving the fourth goal of sustainable development " QUALITY EDUCATION"

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Here is what worlds biggest leaders think about the importance of Global Education

What are global perspectives? Global education has five learning emphases or perspectives: Interdependence and  globalization  – an understanding of the complex social, economic and political links between people and the impact that changes have on each other Identity and cultural diversity  – an understanding of self and one’s own culture, and being open to the culture of others Social justice and human rights  – an understanding of the impact of inequality and discrimination, the importance of standing up for our own rights and our responsibility to respect the rights of others Peace building and conflict resolution  – an understanding of the importance of building and maintaining positive and trusting relationships and ways conflict can be prevented or peacefully resolved Sustainable futures  – an understanding of the ways in which we can meet our current needs without diminishing the quality of the environment or reducing the capacity of future generations to meet the

New data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) show that the global number of children and young adolescents not enrolled in school is rising at the same time that the international community is setting a new sustainable development goal that includes universal secondary education. According to UIS data for the school year ending in 2013, 124 million children and young adolescents, roughly between the ages of 6 and 15 years, have either never started school or have dropped out.

Global citizenship is a contested concept in scholarly discourse, and there are multiple interpretations of what it means to be a global citizen. Some have called global citizenship ‘citizenship beyond borders’, or ‘citizenship beyond the nations and states’. Others have noted that ‘cosmopolitanism,’ as a term, may be broader and more inclusive than global citizenship, while still others opt for ‘planetary citizenship’, focusing on the global community’s responsibility to preserve the planet Earth. Global Citizenship Education (GCE) has been applied in different ways in different contexts, regions and communities, it has a number of common elements, which include fostering in learners: An attitude supported by an understanding of multiple levels of identity, and the potential for a ‘collective identity’ which transcends individual cultural, religious, ethnic or other differences;  A deep knowledge of global issues and universal values such as justice, equality, dignity and respect