United Nations SDG 4 – Quality Education

This nanocourse on SDG 4 – Quality Education – allows for a learner to get a holistic and global understanding of the role of education as a driver for sustainable development and improving people’s lives. It will challenge a person’s perspective on what makes quality education and allow for the learner to identify their opportunities as a change agent on the topic of quality education and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in their community. In a globalizing world, students will need to think critically, globally and in terms of whole systems. This course supports Ubiquity’s mission in building those skills.

Faculty:

Larissa Demel is the current director of Youth Engagement for the Special Olympics Latin America, where she oversees youth innovation projects for inclusion and accessibility for people with disabilities. Larissa was also a speaker at HABITAT III, the bi-decennial United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, where she launched Urban Action, a youth initiative in collaboration with UN Habitat and AIESEC that set out to implement over 150 youth projects related to New Urban Agenda and SDGs within the first year of New Urban Agenda adoption. She has published papers on social innovation through youth action on the SDGs which is being used by over 50,000 young people in 126 countries and created a SDG social project framework for young people and has created the SDG 11 content on to the Young Person’s Guide to Saving the World.

Target Audience

Our courses are appropriate for those individuals who are interested in a quick, high-level overview of each SDG and include opportunities for learning about the SDG, reflecting on their personal beliefs and values around the SDG in question, and ways to take immediate action on working towards solving them.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this nanocourse you should be able to:

Understand SDG 4 – Quality Education in the wider global context
Self-reflect on your values and attitudes about quality education and ESD worldwide
Develop a simple plan of action to begin to create change in your local community