How can you and your family support sustainable development? Write three of your roles and three roles of your family.
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Explanation:
Under the Sustainable Development Goals and Targets, Goal 4 aims to
‘Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning
opportunities for all.’ This has to be put in the context of sustainability ‘defined as
development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their own needs.’ (UN, 2016) Education and knowledge
should be made one of the cornerstone of the issue of sustainability, because of its
interaction and complementarity with other SDGs and the importance of for managing
planet’s limited and depleting resources.
Education and knowledge enhance an individual’s ability to improve her/his life chances,
and contribute to a reduction in poverty. They would also help with the understanding
and adoption of new ideas and technologies in other areas such as health, nutrition and
contraception. (World Bank, 1999) Appreciating the complementarity of SDGs and
creating synergies among different policies would contribute to reducing the cost of
achieving them. To enhance this complementarity and synergies family should become n this paper the focus is on the role of family to achieve this goal, but we should bear in
mind that family is only one institution among many that are involved given the many
dimensions of this goal. Our focus on the role of family has therefor to be put in the
broader context of social policies to achieve the SDGs in area of education as well as
poverty, hunger, health and gender equality. Education, in broad terms, is about the process of learning and teaching. A process that
involves formal and informal learning and teaching over a lifetime. In this never ending
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process, families and households play important direct and indirect roles. Other
institutions are also involved, whose role varies a great deal as we go through different
stages of our life. In the early years formal pre-school and education system at primary,
secondary and tertiary levels play the most important roles, whilst in later periods other
forms of education such as employment related training/education, adult education
programmes, self-learning and peer-learning become more important.
Families’ involvement in education is most prominent during the time children live at
home, at least till the end of the secondary school. Over this period, including the preschool education, it is the ability of the family to provide a safe and nurturing
environment to meet a child’s physical and psychological needs that would have a
significant influence on child’s ability to perform well at school. That however would
depend not only on families economic resources, but as crucially on their social and
cultural resources, such as the education of parents (especially mother), commitment and
time devoted to child’s informal (what might be referred to as upbringing) and formal
education. Besides the immediate family, including the siblings, the extended family of
grand parents, uncles and aunts could also play an important role in the education of a
child.
Equality of access – the probabilities children from different social groupings getting
into the school system… 2. Equality of survival [completion]- the probabilities children
from various social groupings staying in the school system to some defined level, usually
the end of a complete cycle (primary, secondary, higher). 3 Equality of output – the
probabilities children from various social groupings will learn the same things to the
same levels a defined point in the schooling system. 4. Equality of outcome – the
probabilities children from various social groupings will live relatively similar lives