Aug 23, 2019
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday
edition.
This is part 4 of the series around the UN's Sustainable
Development Goals.
Going through the first SDG today – SDG4 – Education
If you haven’t listened to the first 3 – Maybe go back and check
it out as today – finish the first part on people –
So far gone through the UN, media, and trauma-based society
Previous episodes:
Part 1 UN
Part 2 Media
Part 3 Trauma-based society
Today –
- Do a quick overview on SDG 4 - Education -
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality
education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for
all
- Run through the history of education – look at education model
today –
- Look at current formal education as part of the SDG4 – how it
is being implemented and by who within Australia
Education for sustainable development (ESD) is explicitly
recognized in the SDGs as part of Target 4.7 of the SDG on
education
- UN hopes to educate children on the importance of the SDGs -
“By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills
needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others,
through education for sustainable development and sustainable
lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture
of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of
cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable
development,” – Long statement – lets break this down
- This job is given to UNESCO promotes the Global
Citizenship Education (GCED) as a complementary approach
- They State that it is important to emphasize the importance for
this in relation to the other 16 SDGs
- Why? Where does education fit in with climate change, how we
live, sustainable economy, and the rest?
- UN says it enable individuals to contribute to sustainable
development by promoting societal, economic and political change as
well as by transforming their own behaviour
- Remember from the first episode in the series on Julian Huxley
- Quote from founder about changing public minds – again it starts
with the people – people need to willingly do this
- Global citizenship
education(GCE) is a form of civic
learning that involves students' active participation in
projects that address global issues of a social,
political, economic, or environmental nature
- Civic Learning - the study of the theoretical, political and
practical aspects of citizenship,
- the study of government with attention to the role of
citizens―as opposed to external factors―in the operation and
oversight of government – political action through advocacy - The
two main elements –
- 'global consciousness'; the moral or ethical aspect of global
issues,
- 'global competencies', or skills meant to enable learners to
participate in changing and developing the world
Definitions mean a lot
– words have different meanings to them – Whether and weather –
sounds the same but spelt differently – but what skills are needed
to change the world?
- Protest or advance engineering? – Both have a chance of
changing the world – to what end?
- The UN admits they don’t know – as progress is difficult to
track: 75 percent of countries have no (or insufficient data) to
track progress towards SDG4
- Which are targets for learning outcomes (target 1), early
childhood education (target 2), and effective learning
environments.
- Data on learning outcomes and pre-primary school are
particularly scarce; 70 percent and 40 percent of countries lack
adequate data for these targets, respectively - This makes it hard
to analyse and identify the children at greatest risk of being left
behind.
- Left behind – No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) brought
test-based school accountability to scale across the United States
- Maths and Reading – 71% of schools spending more time on these
neglecting other subjects –
- Doing more tests – focused repetitive leaving on reading and
maths – not learning outside of repetition
- Whatever the government teaches kids can either be good for the
kids or good for the Government –
- Kids - where they become independent strong capable people
ready to conquer the world and form a network of friend’s family
and neighbours to provide support.
- But this heavily reduces the reliance of the individuals and by
extensions communities on the Government, as if everyone was out
following what they discovered how to do on their own to provide
value, versus a system that at the core was no different to the
slave/peasantry class in Rome, or factory workers in the 19th
century provide an education system in a way where
- Stop and think about the education system – 12 years of
schooling – choose a career or to go to uni -
- Go to uni – select one degree – Probably get a HECS debt – so
by the time you come out – one career path then to follow –
spending years to pay back debt at reduced income - or go back to
uni – more debt
- Let’s go back a little way to the late 1940s China – Mao –
needed to create people with new loyalties, new motivations, and
new concepts of individual and group life
- Education was recognized as playing a strategic role in
achieving this
- Used to create revolutionaries ready to fight against the old
society and establish a new order and, at the same time, to bring
up a new generation of workers to take up the multitudinous tasks
of development and modernization – in the form of
collectivisation farming/factory work
- The People’s Republic of China generally makes no distinction
between education and propaganda or indoctrination -
share the common task of changing people
- Under this system - the schools constitute only a
small part of the educational program – TV, news, movies – all were
used –
- remoulding the behaviour, emotions, attitudes, and outlook of
the people
- But this new Chinese Government had no education experience –
so borrowed from their Northern neighbours – Soviets
- The Soviet model was the Sino-Soviet Friendship
Association (SSFA), inaugurated in October 1949
- Stalin – Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who
holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
The real struggle here is between what is education, and what
is propaganda.
- Biggest influences on the education models were based on the
fascist/communist states at the time – Socialist states where
education was mandatory, free and you only taught what the
government told you to. Why?
The education programs – global citizenship programs – not
taught how to think but what to think –
Rise and repeat programming how to become social advocates – or
tools used to subvert democracy - First is Education or
re-education
- Pretty simple when you break down the core drivers – promoting
problems to solve through global advocacy – inequality between
developed and developing countries, social unrest, fears of melting
alive from global warming –
- Lots of education is needed to achieve the 17 SDGs –– isn’t on
the fringe – regardless about however hearing about it - policies
are signed on to implement by 193 countries almost 4 years ago
In Australia
High Resolves is a secondary school educational initiative
- implemented by the Foundation for Young
Australians
- Consisting of a Global Citizenship Programme for Year 8
students and a Global Leadership Programme for Year 9 and 10
students.
- It aims to enable students to consider their personal role in
developing their society as a global community through workshops,
simulations, leadership skills training and hands-on action
projects – bussing to protests against Adani
- From their website - High Resolves designs and delivers
award-winning learning experience – break down this
- ‘fuel a powerful personal transformation that inspires an
individual to think, feel and act in the long-term collective
interest, more and more often’
- collective interests = someone doesn’t share views – not in a
group – social control through isolation
- ‘reframe their long-term memory through an immersive peak
experience, which is reinforced through repeated practice and
application in the real world over time’
- which over time contributes to our collective transformation
towards a more just, equitable and inclusive world thanks to a
growing generation of global citizens who think, feel and act in
the long-term collective interest of humanity, and leaders who
inspire others to do the same
Sounds nice – but is Describing brainwashing and social
control?
- The process by which individual or collective freedom of choice
and action is compromised by agents or agencies that modify or
distort perception, motivation, affect, cognition or behavioural
outcomes
- All human being is susceptible to such manipulation – not a
process that is directly observable – doesn’t work if you can see
what is going on
- But repetition is an integral part of
these techniques because connections between neurons become
stronger when exposed to incoming signals of frequency and
intensity
Heuristics – makes life easier – way to
survive
- See a hot pan you know not to touch it – hear someone’s name
you don’t like through repeated experiences or stories told by
others
- Through education – the association between free markets and
greedy bourgeoise middle class can be made
- This type of Formal education – not how to think but what to
think –
- One thing that I never really thought about – in this podcast –
hope to inform you on things – education – run through what, how,
where, etc. – never tell you what to do – in finance especially –
would be sued if I did –
- I don’t believe education should tell you what to do – but give
you skills to think for yourself
- I talk about finance, economic, policy, politics, etc – the
question of ‘how does this affect me’ is something that I can’t
answer – Everyone is different – so depends on where you sit and
what your goals are –
- But the reason that it is hard to take useful information and
apply it into your own life to make decisions is due to the
education you are provided – I was provided – we are all taught in
this way – waiting to be given the right answer
- Science, maths, models – given models and then need to use them
to get X – know how the models work?
- English – based around what the educators think Shakespeare or
other poets meant – if it was personal interpretation = everyone
should get an A+
What to do – if you have kids in school?
Pay attention to what they are taught – not the same as you
- Check it isn’t creating trauma – someone who I work with –
Black Crow book – fiction about time travel – but frames white
Australians as evil and not something to live up to – one girl in
the class said they are ashamed to be white –
- This is collectivised guilt – by-product of false memories and
trauma induced guilt for something these kids haven’t done
That is a summary of SDG 4 – and bring a wrap to the people side
of SDGs – Next episode – Start on the Economy - Promote sustained,
inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive
employment and decent work for all
Explore SDG 8,9,10
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Resources:
Theory of change - https://highresolves.org/our-theory-of-change/