疫情下运用情景思维推进可持续发展教育

Striving Towards Education Quality During Pandemics——Forwarding ESD through Scenario-thinking for the Whole School

新冠疫情使教育系统遭受前所未有的挑战,对应急准备提出了更高要求,学校需要适应不断变化的环境和反复的疫情。出于健康和安全考虑,许多学校在努力确保学生接受正规教育的同时,不得不从线下教学转向远程教学和线上与线下融合式教学。联合国可持续发展目标所述的优质教育总体目标尚未实现,但2020/2021年可能成为一个契机,为教育界带来全新的认识与正面的改变。在情景思维的管理学理论指导下,将可持续发展教育作为当前教育体系转向的指导原则,有望在实现优质教育与可持续未来发展上发挥关键作用。加拿大安大略省教育体系应对新冠疫情的做法正是这一方面的实际案例。

COVID-19 has challenged education systems in unprecedented ways and demanded a new level of readiness.Schools needed to adapt to changing environments and reoccurring waves of the pandemic.Many school systems struggled in securing formal education for students while having to move from in-person to remote or hybrid ways of teaching and learning for health and safety reasons.While the overall goal of a quality education as stated in the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs)is yet to be achieved,the interruptions of 2020/21 hold potentials for new knowledge and positive changes in education.Learning from the management theory of scenario-thinking and focusing on Education for Sustainable Development(ESD)as a guiding principle to reorient current education systems could be key to achieve the quality education desired for to strive towards a sustainable future.References to the education system’s pandemic response in Ontario(Canada)add practical examples to the discussion.