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Futures of Education

June 2021

The theme of this edition of the .ed Magazine, a carefully curated quarterly publication for the transformative global educators, focuses on the “Futures of Education”. There is not one but many futures of education with the power and potential to shape the future of our shared humanity and the planet. This edition hopes to shed a light on a few and be a springboard for ideas and action towards transforming education for human flourishing.

Editor

Guest Editor

Editorial Committee

Contributors

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Editor's Note

From the Editor’s Desk: Futures of Education Edition

Reflecting on UNESCO's outlook on the futures of education and recognizing the fact that there is not one but many futures of education, the articles in this edition reflect on the many futures of education.

Guest Editorial

Futures of Education, a Springboard to Future-Proof Societies

The essence of learning lies in activating students as the owners of their education. Pedagogy must shun predictability and encourage curiosity, innovation, and engagement.

Cover Story

The Future of Education Lies in the Integration of Social-Emotional and Cognitive Learning

The future of education lies in harnessing the social and emotional dimensions of learning to equip our global community to navigate our societies towards the common good.

A Reimagined Future of Education is Global and Blended Learning

As systems move forward with redesigning education, a critical component should be teaching students to be globally competent. How can education systems necessitate a blend with balanced technological guidance to make the youth future-ready?

Featured Articles

Futures of Education in a Digitally Globalized Era

The worldwide chaos that COVID-19 has wreaked on much of school education since early in 2019 seems likely only to accelerate the importance of such technologies for learning.

Arts As Emancipatory Pedagogy of the Futures of Education

The education systems worldwide lack inclusivity and the focus on social-emotional learning is more than ever. Can art be the medium for the demonstration of inclusive practice that supports an asset-based approach to teaching, learning, and development?

Opinion

How Can Schools Use the Disruption to Shape LGBTI+ Inclusive Futures of Education?

If all of us take this time to join the disruption and rebuild spaces of diversity, equity, and inclusion, then we can live in a world where LGBTI+ youth live free and equal.

Shaping Intentional Gender Diversity and Inclusion Practices in Education

The references to diversity in the routine of an early childhood setting may be tokenistic to tick boxes but may be restricted by the entrenched negative attitudes towards diversity and difference.

Building Brighter Futures of Education with Lessons from the Past

The sooner we are able to strengthen inquiry-based and genuinely holistic learning environments, the better equipped our children would be to face the challenges of the future.

Youth Voice

Youth Voice: Here’s one skill 21st-century education should develop at an early age

The world is growing more and more tech-savvy. The world has shifted online from businesses to education. The article sheds light on how the adoption of technology is transforming everything and the importance around the same.

Youth Voice: Here’s Why Policymakers Need to Bring Inclusive Reforms in Education

There are some that I found in school and those that I joined with, and others who were left behind. Are you wondering why?

Research

Shaping Young People’s Identity as Global Citizens: A Social Psychological View of Global Citizenship

When teachers, administration, and the wider community consistently and persistently encourage students to take on and promote values related to global citizenship, they move toward identifying as global citizens.

Global Champions

Celebrating the Inspiring Life of Rahed, A Young Afghan Peacebuilder

The article remembers Mohamad Rahed, a bright college student pursuing Policy and Administration with the hope to become a politician. Rahed lost his life in the unfortunate attack on the Kabul University in 2020. Terrorism was never the answer, and it will never be.

Transformative Pedagogy

The Futures of Higher-Ed: Towards a Values-based University Curriculum?

It is crucial that a higher education curriculum should be developed that can produce learners who can take their place in a globalized environment by acting in a humane, transformative, critical, and emancipated way.

Professional Development

Reviews

Global Events

Reimagining Global Citizen Festival 2021

The Global Citizen Festival inspires thousands to take up causes of global citizenship. Since the festival had to be adjourned due to COVID-19, this forces all parties involved to come together and find a way to continue the movement with the new limitations.

Education News

News

Letter to the editor

This issue of the .ed Magazine is a digital/online quarterly issue-based publication in English by the Global Citizenship Foundation. You may reach the publisher by mail via Global Citizenship Foundation, 139, Sector-13, Sonipat, Haryana, India 131001