International Youth and Adult Education Telecongress

Education and Diversity: learning how to live together (August 14, 15, and 16, 2002)

 

In the context of follow-up to the forty-sixth session of the International Conference on Education (ICE, Geneva, September 2001), the IBE participated in a major event in Brazil. This event was the II Telecongresso de Educação de Jovens y Adultos (the second Telecongress for the Education of Young People and Adults).

 

This activity was organized by the Brazilian Serviço Social de Indústria (SESI), the University of Brasilia and UNESCO's Brasilia Office.

 

The Congress was held simultaneously in more than 200 focal points in Brazil and one focal point in Geneva using new information technologies.

 

The 'II Telecongresso' counted more than 15,000 participants and can be considered as an example of wide-scale promotion of educational innovations, best practices and policy dialogue that should be analysed for transfer to other countries, especially E-9 countries.


The link to the focal point in Geneva took the form of a video-conference with Brasilia. This was arranged in collaboration with the Summer University for Human Rights and the Right to Education organized by the International Organization for the Development of the Freedom of Education (OIDEL), and took place on 16 August 2002.

 

The IBE organized this event at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, as a round-table on the theme: 'Learning to Live Together: Creating Respect for Pluralism, Mutual Understanding and Peace', which also falls within the context of follow-up to the forty-sixth session of the ICE.

From left to right: M. Mario Viscovi (international Association of Parents)
Cecilia Braslavsky (Director of the IBE)
M. Alfred Fernandez (Director of the University on Human Rights and the Right to Education of Geneva)
M. Bernard Wicht (Director of the International Relations, Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education, Berne, CH)


Further information about the Telecongresso

In collaboration with the IBE, UNESCO Brazil has produced a book in Portuguese: Aprender a viver juntos: educação para a integração na diversidade.

 

The six chapters of this book were mainly drawn from issues of the review PROSPECTS published at the time of the ICE.

"School HIV/AIDS Prevention in Rio de Janeiro"

 

Two videotapes were produced for showing during the II International Youth and Adult Education Telecongress, August 14-16, 2002, Education and Diversity: learning how to live together Telecongresso. The themes of these videotapes were: the prevention of AIDS in schools in Rio de Janeiro; and constructing partnerships to combat illiteracy, sponsored by Alfabetizacão Solidária, which had received the Comenius Medal during the ICE.

 

 

  • A. "School HIV/AIDS Prevention in Rio de Janeiro - Brasil" (12') tells the story of a secondary school teacher in Saquarema (State of Rio), teaching about HIV/AIDS in his classroom.

Selection Video 2002 of the BRIDGE Project, including the document on Alfabetização Solidária (which had received the Comenius Medal during the ICE) VHS (5´ + 7´ = 12´)

 

  • 1. Vaud. Switzerland. "No Limits" (5´)
    It presents an experience with comics designed to prevent violence at secondary school. The video features the work carried out with two groups of 7th grade students in the village of Chateau d'Oex, Pays-d'en-Haut, Vaud, Switzerland.
  • 2. Fortaleza, Ceára. Brasil. "A Second Chance… Alfabetização Solidária" (7´)
    Many young people and adults of Brazil can now learn to read and write thanks to the programme Alfabetização Solidária. This NGO, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, offers basic literacy programmes in some rural zones of Brazil, especially in the north-east region. Awarded the Comenius Medal by the IBE in 2001, the programme is here shown through the experience of Claudio, a teenager living in a slum in the suburb of Fortaleza.