The World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development continues its work .. Tababa: Syria, despite the war, has secured a suitable educational environment

Damascus-Sana

With the participation of Syria, the World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development, organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), continued its work virtually in the German capital Berlin.

The conference addresses issues including the promotion of transformative education to support learners to be responsible and active contributors to building more sustainable societies and building a healthy planet.

In his speech during the conference, the Minister of Education, Dr. Darem Tabaa, indicated that the ministry adopted in setting its national educational standards the seventeen goals internationally adopted for sustainable development and the application of the quality of education, as well as developing the curricula to reach a society capable of protecting its resources and ensuring their sustainability.

Minister Tabbah affirmed the ministry’s commitment to developing work and life skills in order to prepare an educated person capable of achieving these goals to ensure a better future for future generations and to work on training educational cadres to be able to link cognitive concepts that support sustainable development with applied skills and behaviors that lead to changing the daily practices of learners in the direction. Correct, in addition to securing the auxiliary means to make the educational process experimental and applied based on building practical experiences and adequate theoretical structure for them instead of restricting education to knowledge only.

The Minister said that despite the unjust war on Syria during the past ten years and the spread of the Corona pandemic, the Syrian government, through the Ministry of Education, has worked to secure the appropriate educational environment, including the restoration of schools affected by terrorism, compensation for educational losses, development of alternative learning systems and the category B curriculum and the development of distance learning systems By building five educational platforms to achieve real development through sound education and correct education.

Minister Tabbah stressed that the stability of the region and respect for international law by not interfering in the affairs of states, stealing energy and food resources from them, and respecting their borders contribute to the spread of security and peace in them, and that it has a role in achieving its educational goals in the field of sustainable development.

During the global conference, UNESCO launches the “Learning for Our Planet” campaign to serve as a call for countries around the world to invest in education for sustainable development and to ensure its inclusion in learning systems worldwide.

The conference, which started yesterday, continues until May 19.

The virtual conference was attended by Deputy Minister of Education, Dr. Abdel Hakim Al-Hammad, Assistant Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Riad Tayfour, Secretary of the National Committee for UNESCO in the Ministry of Education, Dr. Nidal Hassan, and a number of stakeholders.

Rehab Ali and Amer Deeb