scholarly journals From Ideas to Action: Transforming Learning to Inspire Action on Critical Global Issues

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Community Research ◽  
Concerted Action ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Global Consensus ◽  
Sustained Action ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Systemic Understanding

Transforming learning from a passive to an active endeavor is critically important in today’s world. In 2015, the United Nations identified seventeen Sustainable Development Goals that represent a global consensus on the world’s most pressing issues. Realizing these ambitious goals will require concerted action at all levels, including local action. Young people are valuable components of this, and their learning experiences should both inform and inspire them as current and future changemakers. From Ideas to Action articulates the theoretical basis of Smithsonian Science for Global Goals, a series of socio-scientific community research guides focused on achieving a systemic understanding of global problems with the goal of inspiring young people to take informed and sustained action to help address global issues.

scholarly journals From Ideas to Action: Transforming Learning to Inspire Action on Critical Global Issues

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Community Research ◽  
Concerted Action ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Global Consensus ◽  
Sustained Action ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Systemic Understanding

Transforming learning from a passive to an active endeavor is critically important in today’s world. In 2015, the United Nations identified seventeen Sustainable Development Goals that represent a global consensus on the world’s most pressing issues. Realizing these ambitious goals will require concerted action at all levels, including local action. Young people are valuable components of this, and their learning experiences should both inform and inspire them as current and future changemakers. <i>From Ideas to Action</i> articulates the theoretical basis of Smithsonian Science for Global Goals, a series of socio-scientific community research guides focused on achieving a systemic understanding of global problems with the goal of inspiring young people to take informed and sustained action to help address global issues.

scholarly journals Ecological awareness of university students about UN sustainable development goals at global, national and regional levels

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-219
Author(s):  
O. M. Kazakova ◽  
T. N. Malinovskaia ◽  
B. A. Fedulov ◽  
E. V. Romanova ◽  
E. G. Zavgorodnii ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
University Students ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecological Awareness ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The United Nations

The article presents a research of the ecological awareness of young people studying at universities. The research was carried out in the framework of global issues, including environmental, presented as goals in the United Nations program of 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The UN SDGs is a comprehensive global framework for the better future of the planet and its people aimed at solving urgent problems in the world and adopted by global community. The authors conducted a sociological survey of university students living mostly in the South-West of Siberia about their knowledge of the Sustainable Development Goals and understanding of global problems that humanity is facing. They questioned the respondents about their opinion on the priority of global issues – what problems must be solved first of all: environmental, social or economic. The problems in the questionnaire were presented in the wording of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The respondents have chosen the most urgent problems at global, national and regional levels. Their priorities were not the same at different levels. At the same time the research have shown that many university students in the surveyed region do not know about the United Nations program of 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which began in 2015 and has been in progress already for four years. To study young people’s attitude to solving global problems, the university students were asked if they can help and what they can personally do in that respect. The survey revealed active position of many students toward ecological and other problems. The results of the research were analyzed and presented in the form of seven tables.

Educazione globale/ecodidattica: das Projekt «Weltfairsteher» im Italienischunterricht

Italienisch ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (85) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iulia Stegmüller
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Core Element ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Development Goals

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which was adopted by all UN Member States in 2015, contains 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to tackle global problems and promote peace and sustainability, now and in future. Environmental education is a core element of these goals as climate change goes hand in hand with poverty, for instance. Although global education should play a big role in schools, according to an interim report of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, global issues are dealt with only in some subjects and there’s often a lack of student participation. The project «Weltfairsteher» offers challenges for students with reference to the 17 SDGs for practical use in any school and on any educational level. The tasks are interdisciplinary and they motivate students to act. Some of the challenges are highly suitable for foreign language lessons, as they can be combined with texts from different perspectives or stimulate discussions. In this essay, some examples are given of how to integrate «Weltfairsteher» into Italian lessons.

Restructuring Educational Systems and Promoting Social Justice for Young People Involved in Drug Trafficking in Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 227 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Sandro Gomes Pessoa ◽  
Linda Liebenberg ◽  
Dorothy Bottrell ◽  
Silvia Helena Koller
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Young People ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Goals

Abstract. Economic changes in the context of globalization have left adolescents from Latin American contexts with few opportunities to make satisfactory transitions into adulthood. Recent studies indicate that there is a protracted period between the end of schooling and entering into formal working activities. While in this “limbo,” illicit activities, such as drug trafficking may emerge as an alternative for young people to ensure their social participation. This article aims to deepen the understanding of Brazilian youth’s involvement in drug trafficking and its intersection with their schooling, work, and aspirations, connecting with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 4 and 16 as proposed in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations in 2015 .

scholarly journals A COMPARISON OF CENTRALITY MEASURES IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-320
Author(s):  
Sena Ariesandy ◽  
Ema Carnia ◽  
Herlina Napitupulu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Closeness Centrality ◽  
Centrality Measures ◽  
Degree Centrality ◽  
Eigenvector Centrality ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Calculation Results ◽  
Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which began in 2000 with 8 goal points, have not been able to solve the global problems. The MDGs were developed into Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 with 17 targeted goal points achieved in 2030. Until now, methods for determining the priority of SDGs are still attractive to researchers. Centrality is one of the tools in determining the priority goal points on a network by using graph theory. There are four measurements of centrality used in this paper, namely degree centrality, betweenness centrality, closeness centrality, and eigenvector centrality. The calculation results obtained from the four measurements are compared, analyzed, to conclud which goal points are the most prior and the least prior. From the results obtained the most priority goal points in Sustainable Development Goals.

scholarly journals THE PLANNING OF INTEGRATED STEM EDUCATION BASED ON STANDARDS AND CONTEXTUAL ISSUES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDG)

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 300
Author(s):  
Loh Su Ling ◽  
Vincent Pang ◽  
Denis Lajium
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Stem Education ◽  
Real World ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
After School ◽  
Curriculum Standards ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Integrated Stem ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Real World Problems

Two important features in Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) education are integration and solving real world problems.  Despite the efforts to promote STEM education awareness and interest among students and teachers, documented studies on how to explicitly integrate the existing STEM subjects curriculum standards in solving real world problems are limited. This paper describes the planning of after-school STEM education program focusing on relevant global issues related to Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that integrates the existing curriculum standards of three STEM subject in the lower secondary level. The data collection is mainly through document analysis of the three individual STEM subjects’ standard documents and the planned curriculum map for the school, along with the document on ‘Education for Sustainable Development Goals Learning Objectives’.  Four possible design challenges were formulated based on the themes in SDG incorporating selected standards from the three STEM subjects as well as addition of a few new related concepts and skills.  The description offers a way to assist educators in planning similar STEM education lesson or programmes or activities through integration of the existing individual STEM disciplines curriculum standards for different level and context relevant to the students.   Keywords: Contextual problem solving, integration, standard-based, STEM education, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Cite as: Loh, S. L., Pang, V., & Lajium, D. (2019). The planning of integrated STEM education based on standards and contextual issues of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Journal of Nusantara Studies, 4(1), 300-315. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol4iss1pp300-315

scholarly journals Purchase and Use of New Technologies among Young People: Guidelines for Sustainable Consumption Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Genina Calafell ◽  
Neus Banqué ◽  
Salvador Viciana
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Replacement Rate ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Purchase Criteria ◽  
Technical Features ◽  
Very High

Traditional consumer education (CE), aimed at providing information and guidance to young people, has become insufficient to take on the challenges posed by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically SDG 12. Knowledge of youth’s habits as consumers today and citizens of the future becomes essential for defining the most suitable methodological contents and strategies for effective and sustainable CE. This premise was the inception for our research project on the consumption of young people, focusing on the acquisition, purchase, and use of new technologies. Data were obtained from a sample of 994 young people who participated in activities at the Consumption School of Catalonia and completed a questionnaire. The main results revealed that young people did not include sustainability criteria in their use or purchase of technological devices, especially mobile phones: the replacement rate for mobiles was very high (1, 2, or 3 years) and the most important purchase criteria were price, technical features, and brand. These results highlight the need to propose a new kind of CE that challenges the young to think about and adopt consumption methods adopting a contextual, constructive, and complex perspective.

Global issues

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-9
Author(s):  
CSG-Ed team
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Science Education ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Analytical Approaches

The growing role that computing will play in addressing the world's pressing global issues has begun to move to center state, as Big Data for the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) is now included among the United Nations' Global Issues. The UN summarizes this Big Data issue as "The volume of data in the world is increasing exponentially. New sources of data, new technologies, and new analytical approaches, if applied responsibly, can allow to better monitor progress toward achievement of the SDGs in a way that is both inclusive and fair" [2], Elsewhere, we have applauded and argued for computing initiatives, including computer science education, that specifically focus on such "pressing social, environment, and economic problems" [1] and we acknowledge our SIGs commitment to directly tackling such issues.

The Role of Multilingualism in Effectively Addressing Global Issues: The Sustainable Development Goals and Beyond

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 2254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Stein-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Practical Tool

In a globalized, interconnected world, multilingualism is essential for effective communication, understanding of other cultures, and the development of global citizenship values. In addition to being part of a global personal cultural identity and a practical tool for communication in transnational teams, multilingualism has been linked to creativity and to problem-solving, both of critical importance in addressing complex issues, and regular use of more than one language has even been shown to stave off dementia. International organizations, multinational corporations, and educational institutions approach multilingualism differently, each with the language strategy that aligns most closely with their mission and goals. How can international educators best prepare students for an increasingly multilingual world and workplace where multilingualism is the norm rather than the exception?

scholarly journals PARADISGM SHIFT AGENDA IN “THE WORLD IN 2050”

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Santhana Krishnan ◽  
Mohd Fadhil Md. Din ◽  
Yu-You Li ◽  
Yu Qin
Keyword(s):  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Numerous Data

“The World in 2050” (TWI-2050) aims not only to contribute to this understanding of sustainable development goals (SDGs) but also develop science-based transformational and equitable pathways to achieve it. TWI-2050 article which was published by The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), covers members from National Member Organizations in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. This publication is a tool or guideline- for policy-makers, experts, scientist and engineers, and revolutionist in SDGs implementers [Nakicenovic, 2019]. TWI-2050 represents the integrated pathways which harness the synergies and multiple benefits across SDGs, and approaches to governing this sustainability transformation [UNSDN, 2019]. The Roadmap 2050 anchored six pillars and reported the most influential component in SDGs. It is translated with variety of hopes, intentions, action plan and more holistic approach with the vital transformational agenda [Horan, 2019]. The endeavour of transformation is about courage to utilize the Industrial Revolution 4.0 [Lafortune and Schmidt Traub, 2019] with the numerous data and autonomous technical system should be the advantage in improving the global issues. The limitation to the poorest country or region must be shaped through the sustainable empowerment, create more benefits rather than competing, and exploitation of opportunities. Finally, transformation on connectivity is the most tremendous effort in the future

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