Quality Education
Defining Quality in Education (UNICEF, 2000)
Quality education includes: Learners who are healthy, well-nourished and ready to participate and learn, and supported in learning by their families and communities; Environments that are healthy, safe, protective and gender-sensitive, and provide adequate resources and facilities; Content that is reflected in relevant curricula and materials for the acquisition of basic skills, especially in the areas of literacy, numeracy and skills for life, and knowledge in such areas as gender, health, nutrition, HIV/AIDS prevention and peace; Processes through which trained teachers use child-centred teaching approaches in well-managed classrooms and schools and skillful assessment to facilitate learning and reduce disparities; Outcomes that encompass knowledge, skills and attitudes, and are linked to national goals for education and positive participation in society. Source:
Defining Quality in Education, UNICEF, June 2000
Working paper presented by UNICEF at the meeting of The International Working Group on Education Florence, Italy
Main author: Jeannette Colby.
ICT - How can it serve or not Quality education
ICT is but one of the means to transmit information to students. Socioemotional training requires experiencing change within one's inner motors and brakes, and experiencing the changes that come in human and social interactions through Socio-emotional learning (SEL). To achieve transformation of teacher attitudes, postures and pedagogical practices, and of student attitudes and behaviours regarding themselves and regarding those they interact with, ICT can serve to self-evaluate and reflect cognitively, but not transform emotionally-related attitudes and behaviours. It can serve to consolidate knowledge once the transformation has been triggered towards openness, but not before because of resistance or blindness. Attitudes such as: Proponents of ICT-only as THE cost-effective means to achieve teacher quality and teaching quality are themselves blind to what is being aimed for and blind to the costs of poor learning, affected health and unhappiness due to physical, psychological or sexual violence for business, communities and lives. Having made this clear, ICT for some classroom and home learning of Language, Maths and facts may have the great advantage of freeing classroom teaching time and energy to focus these on fundamental learning time, ie This is what Quality education with Quality teachers is about. This is what is required during our 21st Century to help children, youth and adults find meaningfulness. Delia Mamon, Graines de Paix, during the WISE Summit for Education, Dubai, December 11, 2019
- defiant/respectful
- dominating/dominated
- confident/fearful
- passive/engaged
- helpful/egocentred
- converging/diverging
- open/racist
can in no way be transformed by text or video without strong experiential human interaction.
- learning to be and grow humanely
- learning to develop and practice shared values
- learning to interact harmoniously, constructively and warmly
- learning to resolve situations and wider dilemmas creatively
- learning to discern beyond reacting critically
- learning to engage proactively with these abilities.
These are the distinct capacities, which differentiate human beings from AI constructs.
