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Planning My Own Education Sharing App (UI design)
week 1 Explore The SDGs and Topics of Quality Education
Learn about the UN-SDGs
– Describe the UN-SDGs.
– Summarize the fourth goal of UN-SDGs, ‘Quality Education’, and insert images related to the subject.
Exploring the Meaning and Types of Education
– Formal education includes public education institutions such as schools, non-formal education mainly focused on activities outside public education, and informal education is naturally conducted in unintended situations. Think and explain the specific examples of ‘formal education, informal education, and informal education’ that I have experienced.
Exploring the Functions of Education
– Think about the examples of education experiencing in our lives and connect them to the functions of education. After writing an example, please choose one educational function out of six that you learned earlier.
What does school mean to you?
-What does school mean to you? Fill in the blank and explain the reason.
-Why do you go to school? Let’s think about fun parts of my school life and summarize the reasons that I go to school.
The Advent of Public Education
– Why should we go to school and receive education?
– Why is it mandatory to go to school?
The Korean Constitution mandates elementary education by saying, “All citizens are obliged to receive at least elementary education prescribed by law (Article 31 (2) of the Constitution),” and Article 8 of the Framework Act on Education specifies that six years of elementary education and three years of secondary education are mandatory.
Anyone can go to school and get an education, and it becomes mandatory after establishment of the “Public Education System.”
Public education refers to education operated according to public procedures with public funds by public entities. In other words, it is a school education established, operated, and managed by the state or local education authorities for the purpose of the public interest.
Prior to the establishment of the public education system, education was conducted with “Elite education for the privileged class, leading education in the religious community, and focusing on private education.”
Germany was the first country to establish a public education system, and the state-managed public education system has been established as the basic system of education in Europe since the 19th century.
– What would be the problem if only a certain class could be educated? Let’s think about the advantages of being able to go to school and getting an education.
Comparisons of educational system/process
Different countries have different educational goals, curriculum, and contents. Let’s take a look at how the German education system and process differ from our country.
– What are the differences in educational system and process between German and your country?
– If there is a German education system and method that you want to introduce in your country, let’s write them with reasons. If you think your education system is better than Germany, write them down as well.
Exploring the causes of the economic gap
– Let’s read the following and explore one of the causes of the economic inequality between developed and developing countries.
Why the gap between developed and developing countries is not narrowing…
“Because of 100 years of education gap”
The U.S. Think Tank Brookings Institute pointed out that while the economic gap between developed and developing countries is rarely narrowing, and there is a significant educational gap between the two groups. The educational gap between developed and developing countries has reached a whopping 100 years.
According to a report published on the 29th (local time) by Rebecca Winthrop, a senior researcher in charge of the “Universal Education Center” under Brookings, the perception that all advanced countries, including the United States and Europe, should receive a certain level of universal education was widespread in the mid-19th century. On the other hand, in the case of developing countries, such perception began to spread only after the U.N. Charter of Human Rights was published in 1948, and the current school education was achieved.
It was not just the time when school education began in earnest that there was a difference of 100 years. The problem was even more serious considering the period of education that was completed in school. According to a survey of adults in countries classified as developed countries, the average period of completion of school education was 12 years. However, the number of developing countries is only about half of 6.5 years.
So how long will it take to narrow this gap? Rebecca, a senior researcher, said it was expected that it would take 65 years for developing countries to complete 6.5 years of education to increase to 12 years. 85 years are also needed for underdeveloped countries with 4.5 years of completion of education.
However, there is no way that advanced countries will stay still in the meantime. In 2100, the average period of school education in developed countries will exceed 14 years, while developing countries will exceed 12 years and underdeveloped countries will exceed 11 years, and the gap will still exist.
Along with the period of education, the quality of education is also a problem, the report analyzed, “It will take more than 100 years for developing countries to catch up with the content and level of education currently taught in schools in developed countries.”
Therefore, developing and underdeveloped countries need innovative educational methods to break this gap, the report pointed out. “Just as African countries have moved to the mobile banking stage without establishing bank branch networks everywhere like advanced countries, education does not have to follow the existing system,” said Rebecca, a senior researcher. In other words, the educational gap and the resulting economic gap will not change unless such a groundbreaking idea is changed.
Source: Kookmin Ilbo
-What are the causes of the economic gap between developed and developing countries? Let’s summarize the article -Students in developing countries often fail to learn properly even when they go to school.
According to a World Bank report, teachers in many developing countries are poorly trained and corruption is intertwined. Number of children going to school has increased, but little is learned.
In addition, the average student’s academic ability in developing countries is less than 95 percent of all students in developed countries, and three-quarters of elementary school students in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda do not understand simple sentences such as “That dog’s name is Puppy.”
What needs to be improved in order for developing countries to reduce the educational gap with advanced countries? Let’s write your thoughts briefly.
Why cross-border cooperation is needed for quality education?
-Why do children in poor countries still lack access to education?
-Why is international cooperation needed?