WORLD LITERACY DAY :: For " DIGNITY " And " RESPECT " - Need for intensified efforts towards more literate societies
International Literacy Day 2021:
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The world has changed since 1966 – but our determination to provide every woman
and man with the skills, capacities and opportunities to become everything they
wish, in dignity and respect, remains as firm as ever. Literacy is a foundation
to build a more sustainable future for all. This was what it is and this was what it was
stated and said by the UNESCO Director-General
Even in the times of global crisis,
efforts have been made to find alternative ways to ensure the continuity of
learning, including distance learning,
online
learning , often in combination with
in-person learning. Access to literacy learning opportunities, however,
has not been evenly distributed. The rapid shift to distance learning also highlighted
the persistent digital divide in terms of connectivity, infrastructure, and the
ability to engage with technology, as well as disparities in other services
such as access to electricity, which has limited learning options.
This
year marks the 55th anniversary of International Literacy Day and
UNESCO is celebrating it under the banner “ Reading the Past, Writing the Future ”.
International Literacy Day 2016 was celebrated when this had celebrated it’s
GOLDEN JUBILEE and what a way of celebration was it. It celebrated and honoured the past five decades
of national and international engagement, efforts and progress were made to increase literacy rates around the
world. It also addresses current challenges and looks to innovative solutions
to further boost literacy in the future.
Exploration :: New
Method to Build A Solid Foundation For Literacy – No One To Be Left Behind
International Literacy Day (ILD) 2021
will explore how literacy can contribute to building a solid foundation for a human-centred
recovery, with a special focus on the interplay of literacy and
digital skills required by non-literate youth and adults. It will also explore
what makes technology-enabled literacy learning inclusive and meaningful to
leave no one behind. By doing so, ILD2021 will be an opportunity to reimagine
future literacy teaching and learning, within and beyond the context of the
pandemic.
Fifty
years ago, UNESCO officially proclaimed 8 September International Literacy Day
to actively mobilize the international community and to promote literacy as an
instrument to empower individuals, communities and societies.
The 2030 Education
Agenda
Now
International Literacy Day is celebrated worldwide, bringing together
governments, multi- and bilateral organizations, NGOs, private sectors,
communities, teachers, learners and experts in the field. On this day also
International Literacy Prizes are awarded to people with outstanding solutions
that can drive literacy towards achieving the 2030 Education Agenda. This year
the focus is on innovation.
The 8th of September was proclaimed International
Literacy Day by UNESCO in 1966 to remind the international community of the
importance of literacy for individuals, communities and societies, and the need
for intensified efforts towards more literate societies. The issue of literacy
is a key component of the UN's Sustainable
Development Goals and the UN's 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development.
The
U.N.Sustainable Devlopement Agenda - ::
The UN's Sustainable Development Agenda, adopted by world leaders in
September 2015, promotes universal access to quality education and learning
opportunities throughout people’s lives. Sustainable Development Goal 4 has as one
of its targets ensuring all young people achieve literacy and numeracy and that
adults, who lack these skills are given the opportunity to acquire them
It
was 2016 and thus it was the first year of implementation of the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development. In this context the vision of literacy is aligned
with lifelong learning opportunities with special focus on youth and adults.
Literacy is a part of Sustainable Development Goal 4, which aims to for the “ ensure inclusive and equitable quality
education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all ”.
The target is that by 2030 all youth and a substantial proportion of adults,
both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy (SDG Target 4.6).
On 15 November 2019 at UNESCO’s 40th General Conference in
Paris, the Member States agreed to adopt a new UNESCO Strategy for Youth and
Adult Literacy (2020-2025).
For UNESCO’s Education Sector, constituted by its Headquarters,
its institutes, and field offices around the world, this Strategy will be a guiding framework for
the promotion of youth and adult literacy in the coming years.
Identified by the Member States, key partners and literacy
experts through consultations, the new literacy strategy has four strategic
priority areas:
- Supporting
Member States in developing national literacy policies and strategies;
- Addressing
the learning needs of disadvantaged groups, particularly women and girls;
- Leveraging
digital technologies to expand access and improve learning outcomes;
- Monitoring
progress and assessing literacy skills and programmes.
The Strategy will facilitate UNESCO’s targeted support to
countries and populations that are facing the biggest literacy challenges in
the world. These include, but are not limited to, the 29 member countries of
the Global
Alliance for Literacy within the Framework of Lifelong Learning (GAL) that is coordinated by the UNESCO Institute for
Lifelong Learning. The Alliance includes 20 countries with an adult literacy
rate below 50 percent, and the E9 countries, a consortium of the 9 most
populous countries, which are home to over a half of the world’s population.
The Strategy also focuses on gender equality and addresses the
learning needs of marginalized peoples, including out-of-school youth,
refugees, migrants and indigenous peoples who are part of the 750 million
adults around the world who lack basic literacy skills. The Strategy will also
aim to strengthen and encourage cooperation among these countries to share best
practices of promoting literacy in a lifelong learning perspective.
The new Strategy is aligned with the sole intention of a modified and a scientific methodology combined with digitilisation, of imparting the lessons and
Education. The 2030 Agenda is to mobilize stronger political and financial commitment
to equal and equitable access to quality education to leave no one behind.
This
is the importance of the day and this makes it very important as the day
Well , that is it and That sums it all.
Regards and Thanks
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Shyamal Bhattacharjee
Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta in 2012. He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing .
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