Gender and Quality Education for Sustainability

In this course, you will experience an overview of the remarkably expansive and comprehensive targets of SDG 4 Access to Quality Education. How do they differ from the MDG targets? How are they conceptualized and tracked? What trends exist regarding the massive social change in how learning happens at the current moment across the world? Over five weeks, leaners will developed a more nuanced understanding of how sustainability and development practices can improve the quality of access and access to educational for students around the world. The course concludes by rethinking how SDG 5 Achieve Gender Equality and its targets can be interwoven into the goals of SDG 4.

By the end of this course, you will be able to summarize the evolution of formal education, its relationship to missionization, colonization, industrialization, and electronic capitalism; identify and address historic trends of inequity in access to, experiences of, and co-creation of formal educational content; and describe and develop plans to address emerging trends of inequity in emerging digital learning environments.