Learning is a shared responsibility

Jhulie-Ann C. Garcia

THE Department of Education said that learning, including education for sustainable development, is a shared responsibility.

This, as the agency highlighted the vital role of stakeholders at the local and global level in raising awareness and action on education for sustainable development (ESD), saying there is a need to integrate planning and to pull resources and ensure connection to various learning spaces, formal and informal, physical and virtual and inperson and remote that supports social and active learning and provide access to learning resources that enrich learning.

The DepEd recognizes the urgency to deepen its commitment and action to inculcate among learners the awareness, knowledge, values, and capacity for sustainable development through education and learning.

Promoting ESD is in the agency’s priorities, as the Department laid out its efforts in researching, monitoring, and institutionalizing policies and programs for sustainable development.

DepEd’s partners, including civil society organizations, education sector organizations, and foundations coming from the private sector, bilateral agencies, and multilateral organizations, shall ensure that education for sustainable development will be among its key areas of work.

The Department, through the Education Futures Programme, is also collaborating with various stakeholders in creating integrated designs of future learning spaces to cover formal, informal, physical, virtual, and remote spaces, including ESD.

The country’s health crisis has widened the Department’s perspective and increased community participation regarding learning space and processes despite the distance. Now, because of the disruption of in-school learning, households and communities have become active partners in the learning process.

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I at San Nicolas Elementary School, Arayat East District.

The author is Teacher