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Power and Participation

Recalling my past and present experiences regarding decision making there are several experiences I have gone through. My experience of making decisions has various effects. The culture in which I have been brought up is more dependent on the family and even relations too. There have been many times I have taken decisions in my life but most of them were still made after the consideration of my family. I have taken many decisions in life but I like to share them with other people either my family or friends to get their opinion as well. It has helped me most of the time.

However, since I joined the religious life, I have experienced and learned to make decisions myself at times. Leadership roles at different levels have helped me to make decisions which have given me confidence and strength. Recalling my memories, I have not experienced many times directly being involved in decision-making.

In my personal experience decision-making has helped me to grow in maturity and understanding of things in a deeper way. It has also opened the door to new learnings for me.

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The world after 200 years
It amused me even to imagine the world after 200 years. I am hopeful and optimistic that life will be transformed the destruction that has been caused to the world will be paid back by the willingness and generous contribution of each participant of this globe. I imagine the world flourishing and transformed by the adaptation of sustainable living standards. I imagine after working on the 16SDGs and the practice of development education can bring positive and effective change. I believe and hope the suffering that has been caused to the planet will be stopped. Every individual will take the conscious responsibility to practice and promote sustainable living. Education has a pivotal role to play to create a safe and healthy society. Education can surely help people to work on better infrastructure and ways to use proper energy resources.

Moreover, I imagine and strongly desire that each living thing on this planet will have the necessities of life and the freedom to live according to their goodwill without any fear and danger.

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Project work done by students Imagining world after 200 years.

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Project work done by students Imagining world after 200 years.

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I am grateful for the active and enthusiastic participation of my students. I gave the task to students of standards 7 and 8. I have also chosen the top three paintings and have given them little presents to appreciate their creative work.

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How can I teach about climate change?

Yes, I do teach my students about climate change. Even though I am an English teacher but while planning my lessons I make a connection with the climate situation, and I also try to make them realize how can we make it more effective and meaningful for students.

While teaching poetry related to nature, I make students realize that at present our earth is suffering from exploitation and war. What can be the possible ways to make our environment clean and healthy?

I also engage them with such awareness activities that can motivate them to stop polluting the environment.

As part of the administration, I also feel more responsible to make students aware to be sensitive towards nature.

How can I improve my teaching, considering what I learned?

I will give them a clear understanding of climate change by showing them a video.

I will check their previous knowledge and teach them about global warming and its effects on our lives

I will organize activity-based work to help them to realize the need for a clean environment such as painting and recycling project work, nature walks, plantation week, no use of plastic bags, speeches, etc.

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As I think about my country, I think of many challenges such as an unstable political situation, unequal division of basic rights, suffering from various natural disasters, etc. These challenges have brought the economy of the country quite low. In this scenario thinking about the modernization theory there is a greater need for education. There is a lack of Vocational and technical training to provide people with job employment. Apart from this, there is a stronger need for an effective education policy that can upgrade curriculum reform. There is a need for activity-based and practical learning which can upgrade educational

However, there are many examples I see in modernization theory most common and practiced in the use of IT programs and short courses. There is a greater need for vocational and skill-based learning but if we go into the root cause people need awareness. In the country, there are various institutions working who are providing courses on different skills. These can be short and long-term.  At the same time, there is a greater need for the practice of transformative and value-based learning.  Each individual needs to take their own responsibility.

Like other countries of the World, my country also follows the modernization theory. TEVTA, TCF, and PNY are some of the major institutions working in Pakistan for young boys and girls. These institutions are not only providing them with technical training but also helping them to broaden their knowledge. In some recent studies, Pakistan has come up as one of the popular countries where people are involved in online work. It is giving benefit to the country as more and more people are benefitting.

This study of Global Development Education has made me convince to change my paradigm and be open to new concepts and ideas. It also has given me the opportunity to make my teaching more effective.

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Mrs. Christina Peter (Executive Director AWARD) is a futurist and exceptional woman. She has stirred many lives, especially women through her transformative spirit. Christina has recently won the World Women Summit Foundation Prize for Women’s Creativity in Rural Life 2022. The Award has been granted to her by the World Summit Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland on International Day of Rural Women. She managed this NGO with great eagerness and enthusiasm. It mainly helps low-income women and the disadvantaged rural population to improve their socio-economic and basic human rights situation through group meetings, seminar workshops, and training and by providing them moral, professional, and financial assistance in projects and Programs. The NGO has been organizing various programs for awareness and transformation for society such as Women on Wheel (WOW), Effective leadership, Reaching out to the unreached, Women Leadership Training and Information, and Motivational Sessions. One of the interesting programs organized by AWARD I have found is the women in Leadership Program with Integrated Entrepreneurship which prepares women to thrive and build up to their full potential with innovative approaches and empowers them to share their beneficial experiences with others.

Looking at the contribution and support Christina has been rendering to the people I feel she is not giving quality education to the women in rural areas but at the same time, they are learning life skills. The awareness given to people is helping them to change society and uplift their way of living. It is a great step to make women able to speak up for their rights and to be aware of their rights.

I can see the practice of Global Development Education in the way NGOs have been working. I am strongly inspired by this woman who can bring a positive and remarkable change in the lives of many other women. That is what Global Development Education demands from every citizen to stretch out and flow the knowledge of education to all.

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Most Important goal for me.
Sustainable Development goals are the 17 goals given by UN also known as call for action for the development of the countries of the globe. All these goals are interlinked and related to each other. One of the most important for me is the goal 4 which is quality education. Since my childhood I have observed and seen there is a greater need of quality of education. This goal has a great impact in my personal and societal life. I belong to developing country where I have noticed millions of girls and boys are deprived from their right to education. I too have seen rapid increase in the unemployment. Lack of education and unemployment is making the country poor and crime rate is increasing at a higher level. In order to response to this situation people need education to transform their lives in order to live a decent and better life. Due to lack of education people are unaware of their rights and they are living an oppressed and hard life. Lack of education also gives birth to hunger and poor health. Transformation can only be possible by the quality education. It is the only source which ca bring positive and prosperous change in the society. Looking at this goal 4 which has long lasting and effective results to save the globe.  Education can help the countries to overcome the present and upcoming challenges. Access of quality education to everyone will first ensure children with their basic right of education and will also produce more civilized people which will bring positive change to the society, country and the globe.  Overall as I look at all the SDGs I strongly feel that there is a stronger need for the access of quality of education and it will definitely eradicate all the other issues faced by the world at this time.

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As I think about my experience of getting to know about the wider world I feel the knowledge and awareness at my time was limited then today. the credit goes to the media. My learning about the wider world is mostly through my schooling and through media such as various television programs programs, Films and stories.
If I relate it to the Mesa's generation I feel it is more through the fifth generation which is about global citizenship education.

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Some of the important key words in
Global Development Education :
1. Education
2. Awareness
3. Modelling
Something stays with me after the first class and most important in Global Development Education.
1.Reflection
2. Action
3.Analysis