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UN Chronicle - Volume 50, Issue 4, 2014
Volume 50, Issue 4, 2014
A must-read for every concerned world citizen, the United Nations Chronicle is a quarterly, easy-to-read report on the work of the United Nations and its agencies. Produced by the United Nations Department of Public Information, every issue covers a wide range of United Nations related activities: from fighting the drug war to fighting racial discrimination, from relief and development to nuclear disarmament, terrorism, and the worldwide environmental crisis. This issue focuses on education.
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Is it still necessary to teach about the United Nations?
Author: Anne-Marie CarlsonIs it still necessary to teach about the United Nations? Absolutelynow, perhaps more than ever. With a spiraling global population, the need to better inform and educate young people the world over about the United Nations represents an ongoing challenge that cannot go unheeded.
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Teaching the UN through experiential education
Author: Rekha DattaAs educators you can help students grow into a global civic identity and understand how their decisions have an impact ranging well beyond their immediate vicinity. The United Nations is uniquely placed to work with you in instilling a sense of global citizenship in todays youth.
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Higher learning institutions and global citizen education
Authors: Vera Jelinek and Jacques FomerandA Ithough the term global citizen dates back to ancient times, it is only in recent decades that it has gained extensive usage in academic circles. It is an objective of many mission statements and has also gained credence as a personal way of life, as an awareness of oneself not as an isolated individual but as one inextricably linked to others. Lest such common usage of the phrase become a cliché, I think it behooves us at the outset to define, albeit in broad strokes, what we mean by global citizens. Is it a shared sense of a world identity, even though human beings have not yet evolved into a world community? Is it a commitment to some common universal values? Or is it a way of approaching, embracing and attempting to resolve global challenges from a perspective that is much broader and more inclusive than the one that until recently placed sovereign states at the centre of global discourse. In terms of institutions of higher learning and what they offer, we will concentrate on the latter definition which we have implemented in our own university.
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What type of citizenship education; What type of citizen?
Author: Henry MaitlesEducation for citizenship raises key questionswhat is education for? What is the role of the school in developing positive attitudes amongst young people? How can controversial issues be raised in the classroom? How do we develop critical citizens?
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Making academic research accessible
Authors: Hans-Georg Van Liempd, Laura Howard and Hans De WitIn 2010, more than 4 million students were studying outside their home countries. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, this number may rise to 8 million international higher education students by 2025. This globally mobile population of mainly young people seeking education represents an investment in crucial assets for sending countries, which is essential for future development, prosperity and welfare, as students return home with increased knowledge and skills prepared for global citizenship. For receiving countries, these students bring cultural and intellectual diversity to the institutions and the countries they visit, often representing a source of revenue for those institutions and communities, and in other cases a source of skilled labour in the current knowledge based economy. For sending countries, however, this might be a cause of brain drain and increased dependence.
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Daring in higher education, a crazy idea?
Author: Thandwa Z. MthembuNovember 2013 marks the third anniversary of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), an innovative programme that implores higher education to take its role as a global citizen, among many other principles. UNAI must have started with what some might have called a crazy idea. Thanks to that crazy idea, higher education has been reaping the benefits.
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Colleges and collegiality: An international imperative
Author: Paul SmithThe concept of globalization pulsates throughout just about every discussion or article on international relations, the macroeconomy or worldwide social predicaments. The only reason the word hasnt become hackneyed is that its meaning is germane to everything of significance that is happening to our world in this millennium.
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Education as the pathway towards gender equality
Author: Azza KaramAmartya Sen, often referred to as the father of the concept of human development, reminds us of a quote by H.G. Wells, where he said that human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. Sen maintains that if we continue to leave vast sections of the people of the world outside the orbit of education, we make the world not only less just, but also less secure. To Sen, the gender aspect of education is a direct link between illiteracy and womens security.
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The journey of a dental surgeon into international education
Author: Lavern SamuelsWhen I was a student of dentistry, a caption on a T-shirt during the annual dental students orientation programme captured my attention. It read Dental StudentsBUILDING BRIDGES IN SOCIETY. It had graphic visuals that illustrated this caption. As a student, I became increasingly involved in the broader role that health professionals play in society and the influence that they have in being able to positively change the lives of members of society. Later, as part of my studies I was awarded a student exchange scholarship at the University of Melbourne in Australia and the Royal Dental Hospital which was attached to the universitys faculty of dentistry. This was an eye opening experience that not only exposed me to differences within societies but also the common threads that run through humanity. Although I was involved in a field of study that was very much focused on health and medicine, and my subsequent working life was as a clinical dentist in both private practice and the public sector and thereafter as an academic in various sub-disciplines within dentistry, my sojourn into the international dimension had begun much earlier without me being fully cognizant of the strong influence it would have on my future career and my present activities.
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The contribution of the german tertiary education system towards furthering the UNAI initiative
Author: Arnold Van ZylThis article briefly reviews the German tertiary education system and illustrates how it contributes towards furthering the principles underlying the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) initiative.
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International mobility of students in Brazil
Author: Carlos Eduardo VerganiBy the early 1990s, Brazils economy had hit rock bottom. During the past 20 years a different scenario has emerged, and Brazil has become the sixth largest economy in the world. Experts predict that it could soon become one of the worlds top five economies.
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Walter: A story of resilience and hope
Author: Indrani NaidooThe name Walter is taken from a Germanic name meaning ruler of the army (http:/www.behindthename.com), yet the Walter I was honoured to meet and connect with, like a mother to a son, is a beautifully made gentle soul, soft spoken, always smiling and showing no outer scars of a person exposed to some of the worst brutalities against humankind. On the contrary, he is poised, warm, friendly and grateful for his portion, for his cup in life, once empty even of basic needs that every child is entitled to and flung to the harsh elements of fate, is brimming with goodness and soon will overflow. This is because a young man realized that if he was so cruelly flung into the valley of death as a child, alone, confused, hungry, thirsty and lost in the crowds of hurting people fleeing for their lives with empty hands and aching hearts, he was alive for a purpose. All they had was the sky above as their roof and each otherstrangers by blood but brothers in circumstances. He remains beautifully made and hopeful that there is still goodness to be enjoyed.
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