Lesson Four | SDG #4: Quality Education
In this lesson, students explore United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #4: Quality Education. Students will learn about why access to quality education is an essential human right that promotes life-long learning opportunities. They will identify and discuss some of the barriers (economic, political, and social/cultural) faced by youth in different contexts through video clips, reading personal stories, and engaging in additional research activities.
Students will examine Article #26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and discuss whether they would change any part of the statement (and why). Then, students will work collaboratively to develop a proposal for achieving greater access to quality education in specific local or global communities. In this activity, students will consider what they have learned about the impact of education on people’s lives and describe how their proposal would advance efforts to reach the targets of SDG #4.
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This Open Educational Resource, Cultivating Global Competence through the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, was developed by Ryan Hauck, Michele Anciaux-Aoki, Julianna Patterson, Gloria Kuzmenko-Latmier, Ina Chong, and Global Classroom, World Affairs Council – Seattle.
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Iryna Novachuk
Inna Shynshyn
Nathan Marks
Brandon Severance
Otilia Baraboi
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