RECI Thematic Day 2022

International cooperation actors often work in the education and training of teachers, including in fragile contexts where access to quality education is not guaranteed for all. In the face of growing socio-economic inequalities, climate change, conflict and displacement, as well as humanitarian and global health emergencies schools systems, teachers and learners are faced with multiple challenges.

In this context the provision of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Global Citizenship Education (GCE) are increasingly important, and teacher education and training answering to these challenges are crucial to ensure continuity of schooling and access to secondary, tertiary and vocational education for all.  

In this context, SDG 4.7 calls for “significantly increasing the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation in teacher education in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing states”. 

The 2022 RECI Thematic Day will approach this urgent and topical issue through discussing some of the following questions – as well as the questions that you will bring to the space:

• How can teachers and learners be supported as agents of change to achieve the sustainable development goal SDG 4.7? 
• What approaches help to reorient education towards a sustainable future? 
• How does education for sustainable development and for sustainable lifestyles work?
• How does education for human rights, for gender equality, for promoting a culture of peace and non-violence, for global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity?
• How does education for cultural change go towards a culture of sustainable development? 

International cooperation actors often work in the education and training of teachers, including in fragile contexts where access to quality education is not guaranteed for all. In the face of growing socio-economic inequalities, climate change, conflict and displacement, as well as humanitarian and global health emergencies schools systems, teachers and learners are faced with multiple challenges.

In this context the provision of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Global Citizenship Education (GCE) are increasingly important, and teacher education and training answering to these challenges are crucial to ensure continuity of schooling and access to secondary, tertiary and vocational education for all.  

In this context, SDG 4.7 calls for “significantly increasing the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation in teacher education in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing states”. 

The 2022 RECI Thematic Day will approach this urgent and topical issue through discussing some of the following questions – as well as the questions that you will bring to the space:

• How can teachers and learners be supported as agents of change to achieve the sustainable development goal SDG 4.7? 
• What approaches help to reorient education towards a sustainable future? 
• How does education for sustainable development and for sustainable lifestyles work?
• How does education for human rights, for gender equality, for promoting a culture of peace and non-violence, for global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity?
• How does education for cultural change go towards a culture of sustainable development? 

We believe in the power of mutual learning and co-creation by bringing together different perspectives and experiences to build impetus and feasible solutions for global challenges in education. 

During the RECI Thematic Day we open various spaces, where participants are invited to pose their questions and share their experiences and challenges – be they hands-on, thought-provoking or philosophical, to listen to others and jointly come up with new insights, practical tips, or new ideas. The use of participatory and interactive workshop methods will facilitate these processes of mutual learning and co-creation and ensure that all participants have space to talk about their projects, ask questions, contribute and develop new ideas together. 

There will be four workshops led and prepared by RECI members. These workshops have a defined focus-theme and include inputs on projects and experiences of RECI members. Participants with a specific interest for the defined sub-theme are invited to come with their questions, own projects and experience. In addition to that there will be two Open Space workshops. These spaces can be used by participants to put forward further sub-themes that are not covered by the four other workshops, to raise questions from ever new perspectives, or to just engage in an in-depth conversation around SDG 4.7. and the challenges of teacher training and education.

Through this hybrid event, we enable a global exchange between education actors, practitioners, researchers and advocates, bringing different questions, experiences and perspectives to the space.