United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO)

Toni Rose B. Recierdo REPORTER

What is UNESCO?

UNESCO is a United Nations Organization to promote international corporation and implementation of international agreements.

-Its purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through education, science, and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and human rights along with fundamental freedom proclaimed in the UN Charter.

The Four Pillars of Education

Learning to KNOW

Learning to DO

Learning to LIVE TOGETHER

Learning to BE

EDUCATION

Learning to KNOWTo provide the cognitive tools required to better comprehend the world and its complexities, and to provide an appropriate and adequate foundation for future learning.

Learning to DO

To provide the skills that would enable individuals to effectively participate in the global economy and society.

Learning to LIVE TOGETHERTo expose individuals to the values implicit within human rights, democratic principles, intercultural understanding and respect and peace at all levels of society and human relationships to enable individuals and societies to live in peace and harmony.

Learning to BE

To provide self analytical and social skills to enable individuals to develop to their fullest potential psycho-socially, affectively as well as physically, for a all-round ‘complete person.

Education for All (EFA)

Global movement by UNESCO, aiming to meet the learning needs of all children, youth and adults.Priority areas: Early Childhood Education, Formal Basic Education and Alternative Learning SystemUniversal Basic Education- central goal of the Philippine EFA Strategy.

Four major interventions:1. Institutionalize early childhood

care and development2. Provide universal quality

primary education3. Eradicate illiteracy4. Launch continuing education

programs for adults and out-of-school youth

EFA has become “inextricably woven into the Department of Education fabric, the overriding responsibility of all units.”

“It has become an exemplar on vision assimilation and organizational adaptation and integral part of the “overarching philisophy and integral strategy of basic education in the Philippines.”

The Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) are:

1. Reducing by half the number of people, who live in extreme poverty, with little access to food and safe drinking water.

2. Reducing death in mothers and children below five;

3. Making primary education accessible to all;4. Reducing gender disparities;5. Providing access to reproductive services;6. Pursuing national strategies for sustainable

development7. Reversing environmental resources losses

and8. Developing a global partnership for

development

CHILD FRIENDLY SCHOOL SYSTEM1. Gender sensitive and not-discriminating. Specifically the CFS treats all children equally regardless of gender, social status, cultural origin or religious belief.2. Child-centered imparts quality learning and encourages children to participate in schools and community activities.3. Promotes good health practices and behaviors and guarantees that school premises are safe and clean.4. Has the best interest of children in mind and seeks to provide an environment that is safe, secure and a home away from home;5. Works closely with children’s families and engages the support and interaction of community institutions and other individual.