London - The Angolan delegation to the World Education Forum, which is taking place in the United Kingdom from 19 to 22 this month, heard about the experiences of Senegal, Bangladesh and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on the subject of “optimising green education in primary school”.
According to a press release from the Angolan Embassy in the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland, today the secretary of State for Secondary Education, Gildo Matias José, and the secretary of State for Higher Education, Eugénio Silva, took part in the ministerial debate on Green Education.
During the debate, it was agreed that technological integration, the application of virtual reality and Artificial Intelligence will help students to better absorb knowledge about nature.
The integration of green education into long-term curriculum strategies was advocated, so that children have a learning process based on a global perspective on issues such as climate change.
At the debate, the UNESCO´s director for Global Education Monitoring, Manos Antoninis, called for increased dialogue at the level of political decision-makers for a paradigm shift towards education that is more focused on climate change, with solutions for mitigating the climate phenomenon facing the world.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation also notes with concern that green content is more common in higher education than in secondary education, more in science subjects than in social areas.
Senegal's Minister of Education, Mustapha Guirassi, and the Minister of State for Primary and Mass Education, Rumana Ali, advocated resilient schools in the face of environmental problems, particularly climate change.
They defended the need for a systematic youth-based transformation in the face of global phenomena and inclusive education.
Senegal recognises that there is indeed investment in education in Africa, but the results are sometimes not fruitful because there is a lack of teaching rooted in traditional African spiritual values, such as generosity and tolerance.
The official concluded that it is urgent to implement green education in the schools curricula in a transversal way in different subjects of the primary education.
In the second day of the World Education Forum which closes Wednesday, the Angolan delegation also paid attention to the meeting on “improvment of practices linked to the allocation of funds, planning and identification of priorities in education”.
The two Angolan secretaries of State represented the minister of Education as well as the minister of Higher Education, Luísa Grilo, Science, Technology and Innovation, Maria do Rosário Bragança, respectively.
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