Rohingya Education Centre in Penang. NurPhoto SIPA USA/PA Images. All rights reserved.In the twenty-first century, we are more connected, informed, mobile and exposed to others than ever before. This is why the education sector has started asking whether our kids, beyond basic literacy and numeracy skills, are actually being taught how to make the world a better place. But to discuss this question, one also needs to ask; what makes the world a better place?
This could arguably consist of a set of socio-emotional skills, ranging from simple open-mindedness, to language skills, or IT-literacy, necessary because of the increasing connectivity, migration rates, and opportunities some youth have to move abroad and interact with different cultures. This broadly-defined mix of twenty-first-century requirements is encompassed under the concept of “Global Citizenship Education”, or GCED, which schools around the world are increasingly trying to implement.
