The City becomes educative through the necessity of educating, learning, teaching, knowing, creating, dreaming, and imagining that all of us – men and women – who occupy its fields, mountains, valleys, rivers, streets, plazas, fountains, houses, buildings, leave on everything the stamp of a certain time and style, the taste of a certain epoch… The City is us and we are the City. Paulo Freire, Politics and education, 1993.105
Introduction to education and its various stages
Sustainable development
The world marks its 4th international education day, as the UN proclaims this year under the theme of “Changing course, Transforming education”, this matches the 2030 vision “for the first time in human history it is possible to achieve inclusive and equitable quality education and life-long learning for all. We stand to achieve equality and quality education, to graduate a well-educated, socially intelligent generation. We at RAIS, re-designed our visual identity, to match the Kingdoms 2030 plan, and the updates that have been taking place for 5 years now, the digital transformation that is and will be ongoing to empower citizens in different sectors, to unleash their capabilities in high capacity and to achieve more success, development, and creation of innovative opportunities whilst preserving the kingdom’s values and heritage; aiming to qualify and equip the young for future opportunities. The united-nation states that 91 percent of students worldwide were impacted by the pandemic of covid-19, without inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong opportunities for all, countries will not succeed in achieving gender equality and breaking the cycle of poverty that is leaving millions of children, youth and adults behind.
International education day vision
Transforming education
The greatest source of creativity and innovation is cultural diversity. In both higher and school education. Teaching is being transformed radically in terms of methods, and the content of education area, the chance of getting an education has increased with the amplified spread of innovative learning tools, and access to it has become open leading to a spread on education that is more innovative and less regulated.
The Kingdoms 2030 vision
The kingdom of Saudi Arabia has dedicated objectives towards education, here are ten goals out of sixteen (16) that fall under the program of human capacity development
- Promoting the values of moderation and tolerance
- Promoting the values of mastery and discipline
- Promoting the values of determination and perseverance
- Instilling national principles and values and promoting national belonging
- Taking care of Arabic
- Promoting family participation in preparing for the future of their children
- Promoting the values of positivity, flexibility and a culture of hard work among our children
- Building an integrated educational journey
- Improving equal access to education
- Improving basic educational outcomes
The 4th goal of the UNESCO sustainable development goals – acquiring the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development
On this year 2022, 24th of January counts UNESCO’s fourth celebration of the international day of education under the theme of “Changing Course, Transforming Education”. This international day comes into 3 divisions “ learning, innovation, funding”, and as the world continues to fight the Covid pandemic the UNESCO’s general secretary stressed the need to protect education as it is a fundamental right and supports the global public benefit. This year’s global theme is ‘Recover and Revitalize Education for the COVID-19 Generation ‘and imposes the importance of education in maintaining social and cultural cohesion, preserving society’s well-being to build a fruitful future.
Celebrating international education in RAIS
We cannot deny the transformation of education, and the widest spread and transformation in education is learning how to communicate, participate and learn online, whereas RAIS follows the most distinguished educating techniques, as we also pay judicious attention to our trainer’s competencies and developmental levels related to the way they think and the skills they’ve acquired as enhancing the understanding and skills of the trainer is essential in class. On this international education day, we at RAIS are keen to urge our students to celebrate themselves and to work in groups targeting extracurricular activities for our student’s scientific, suspense, psychological and social satisfaction, while also encouraging good competition and behavioral development and educating parents about the importance of this day, and therefore before developing an ECA (extra-curricular activity) program we intend ensuring the activities implementation quality and its needs and objectives and to ensure the capabilities and qualifications of trainers and supervisors.