GLOBAL ISSUES THAT CONCERN SCHOOLS AND 15.

Protect, restore and promote desertuse of

SOCIETY terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests,
combat desertification, and halt and reverse land
The world has become a global village. We have degradation and half biodiversity loss.
become a citizen of a global community. What takes
place in one part of the globe no matter how far 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for
affects us. It is a “small world after all” so goes the sustainable development, provide access to justice for
song. In this chapter, we will discuss global issues that all and build effective, accountable and inclusive
affect schools and us. It is hoped that you are able to institutions at all levels.
propose solutions to social problems which have 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and
become current global issues. revitalize the global partnership for sustainable
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals For The development.
Period 2015-2030
10 GLOBAL ISSUES AND HOW THEY CAN BE
1. End poverty in all it’s forms everywhere.
ADDRESSED
2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved
1. CLIMATE CHANGE
nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
The global temperatures are rising, and are estimated
3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all
to increase from 2.6 degrees Celsius to 4.8 degrees
at all ages.
Celsius by 2100. This would cause more severe
4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education weather, crises with food and resources and the spread
and promote life-long learning opportunities for all. of diseases. The reduction of greenhouse emissions
and the spreading of education on the importance of
5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women
going green can help make a big difference.
and girls.
2. POLLUTION
6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of
water and sanitation for all. Pollution includes ocean litter, pesticides and
fertilizers, air, light and noise pollution. Clean water is
7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable
essential for humans and animals, but more than one
and modern energy for all.
billion people don't have access to clean water due to
8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable pollution from toxic substances, sewage or industrial
economic growth, full and productive employment waste.
and decent work for all.
3. VIOLENCE
9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and Violence can be found in the social, cultural and
sustainable industrialization and froster innovation. economic aspects of the world. Whether it is conflict
that has broken out in a city, hatred targeted at a
10. Reduce inequality within and among countries. certain group of people or sexual harassment
occurring on the street, violence is a preventable
11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, problem that has been an issue for longer than
resilient and sustainable necessary.
12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production
Here are various forms of violence:
patterns.
Physical violence occurs when someone uses a part of
13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and
their body or an object to control a person's actions
it’s impacts ( in line with the united nations Sexual violence occurs when a person is forced to
framework convention on climate change). unwillingly take part in sexual activity
14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and Emotional Violence occur when someone says or
marine resources for sustainable development. does something make a person feel stupid or
worthless.
Psychological violence occurs when someone uses poverty through proper training for employment,
threats and causes fear in an individual to gain control education and the teaching of cooking and gardening
skills, people who are suffering will be more likely to
Spiritual (or religious) violence occurs when
get jobs, earn enough money to buy food and even
someone uses an individual's spiritual beliefs to
learn how to make their own food to save money.
manipulate, dominate or control that person.
9. SUBSTANCE ABUSE
Cultural violence occurs when an individual is
harmed as a result of practices that are part of her or is “the harmful or hazardous use of psychoactive
his culture, religion or tradition substances, including alcohol and illicit drugs” (World
Health Organization) The United Nations report that,
4. SECURITY AND WELL-BEING by the beginning of the 21st century, an estimated 185
million people over the age of 15 were consuming
The UN is a perfect example of what should be done
drugs globally. The drugs most commonly used are
to prevent the lack of security and well being a serious
marijuana, cocaine, alcohol, amphetamine stimulants,
global
opiates and volatile solvents.
issue. Through its efforts with regional organizations
10. TERRORISM
and representatives that are skilled in security, the
U.N is working toward increasing the well being of Terrorism is an issue throughout the world that causes
people throughout the world. fear and insecurity, violence and death. Across the
5. LACK OF EDUCATION globe, terrorists attack innocent people, often without
warning. This makes civilians feel defenseless in their
More than 72 million children throughout the globe
everyday lives. Making national security a higher
that are of the age to be in primary education are not
priority is key in combating terrorism, as well as
enrolled in school. This can be attributed to inequality
promoting justice in wrongdoings to illustrate the
and marginalization as well as poverty, Fortunately,
enforcement of the law and the serious punishments
there are many organizations that work directly with
for terror crimes.
the issue of education in providing the proper tools
and resources to aid schools.
Lesson 6: The Why and How of School and
6. UNEMPLOYMENT
Community Partnership
Without the necessary education and skills for
Opportunities for School-Community Partnership -
employment, many people, particularly 15 to 24 years
Partnership implies two parties helping each other.
old, struggle to find Jobs and create a proper living for
Both parties benefit. This means that if a school -
themselves and their families. This leads to a lack of
community partnership exists both parties benefit
necessary resources, such as enough food, clothing,
from the relationship.
transportation and proper living conditions.
What can the community do for schools?
7. GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION
1. Brigada Eskwela - This program engages all
Means of corruption include graft, bribery,
embezzlement, backdoor deals, nepotism, and education stakeholders to contribute their time, effort
patronage. Corruption is a major cause of poverty and resources in ensuring that public school facilities
considering how it affects the poor the most, eroding are set in time for the forthcoming school opening. It
political and economic development, democracy and takes place more or less two weeks before classes
more. Corruption can be detrimental to the safety and begin in June. This is a school maintenance program
well being of citizens living within the corrupted that has been institutionalized since 2009 when DepEd
vicinity, and can cause an increase in violence and issued DepEd Order # 100.
physical threats without as much regulation in the
government. 2. Curriculum development - This can mean use of
8. MALNOURISHMENT AND NUTRITION community resources for learning. e.g. museum,
elders of the community as key informants in research
Currently there are 795 million people who do not or resource persons for learning.
have enough to eat. Long-term success to ending
world hunger starts with ending poverty. By fighting
3. Work experience programs – such as Work
Immersion for Senior High students, provide students
Learning from the Experiences of Schools and
with hands on experience in community
Community PartnersHere are concrete examples:
establishments and offices this helps develop
competencies, work ethics, values relevant to further 1. Dumingaga Central School, Dumingag,
education and the world of work. Partner offices Zamboanga del Sur
provide opportunities for employment simulation and
application for competencies in specific areas. This Strong school community partnership -
school community partnership fulfills curriculum Feeding program was maintained by community
requirements, improves curriculum based on donors - Mother Butler Mission Guild, barangay
community feedback, and prepares graduates of the councils, office of the mayor, parents who budgeted,
world of work. cooked, purchased.

4. Remediation and enrichment classes - Parents “Kiddie Cop” classes – cops lectures on good manner
and retired teachers may be involved in the School and right conduct, drug addiction, child abuse, child
Reading remediation and Learning Enrichment welfare, municipal welfare and development office –
Programs. municipal health office conducted special classes on
health and nutrition, rights of the child.
5. Youth Development Programs - allow young
individuals to develop skills, learn positive peer-adult 2. Angels Magic Spot and Project REACH,
relationships, and serve as valuable resources in their etc. - Pembo Elementary School, Makati
communities by participating in these programs. Pembo Angels Magic Spot (PAMS) were the
6. Community service - involves students volunteer environmental steward-students of Pembo
participating in tutorial programs, community Elementary School. PAMS brought together students,
reforestation, river clean-up drives, medical missions, teachers, and school head. Parents barangay officials
school head planning local celebrations, teachers and other members of the community clean up little
managing programs, and school bands playing in nooks for garbage and converted them into green
fiesta parades. areas with vegetables shared by all. It also taught
skills and positive attitude toward work gardening to
What can schools do for communities in return? students and supplemented the feeding program for
the underweight and the malnourished in the school,
Schools may allow the community to use school
Project BOWLS (Brain Operates Well on Loaded
resources. Here are concrete examples enumerated by
Stomachs).
the DepEd Primer on School Community Partnership:
Another effective practice was Project Revitalize
• Classroom used by community organizations
for meetings Enthusiasm for Assistance to Children of Humanity
(REACH where each teacher adopted one student and
• School used as a polling place and venue for acted as hi her mentor for the entire school year. The
medical mission which it may co-sponsor with teacher gave free tutorial to the adopted student during
the Rural Health Unit his/her free time, visit the student's family every now
• School used by the Rural Health Unit for and in some instances give the student a daily
mothers' class on child care allowance of ten pesos from teacher's own pocket.
• School used as an evacuation center
This contributed to improved performance of Pembo
• School facilities used for community
assemblies Elementary School, 23* in rank in the Division
• School basketball court used for local Achievement Test zoomed up to rank 9 and six years
celebrations and barangay sports league later rank I. (near-zero drop out rate). BOWLS means
• Schools conduct livelihood skills-training Brain Operates Well on Loaded Stomach. Every
programs for parents and out-of-school youths recess, children who were selected by the school as
by using school resources BOWLS beneficiaries due to malnutrition were
• Livelihood skills-training for parents and out- provided a free bowl of lugaw.
of-school youths by teachers themselves
Pera sa Panapon was a weekly trash market where head who has “the authority,
students, their parents and other members of the responsibility,and accountability for achieving
community were invited to bring their recyclable higher learning outcomes.”
garbage. • Section 3 of the same constitution states the
purposes and objectives of RA 9155
Sociological basis if school-community partnership • Section E (10)- one of the responsibilities of
the school head is “Establishing school and
• The functionalist theory states that institutions community networks and encouraging the
must perform their respective functions for the active participation of teacher’s organizations,
stability of society. Other institutions must non-academic personnel of public schools, and
come in if one institution fails to do its part for parents teachers-community associations
the sake of society. • Section 3 (f) of the same Act encourages
"local initiatives for the improvement of
• The school cannot do it all. "It takes a village schools and learning centers and to provide
to educate a child" the means by which... improvements may be
• It has to work in partnership with other achieved and sustained."
• Batas Pambansa Blg. 232, otherwise known
institution in the community such as church
as the Education Act of1982, Section 7 states
and government organizations.
that:
• The rearing and education of the child is the Every educational institution shall provide for the
primary obligation of parents. The school, the establishment of appropriate bodies through
Church and other social institutions come in to which the members of the educational community
assist parents and families to fulfill their may discuss relevant issues and communicate
irreplaceable obligation. information and suggestions for assistance and
support of the school and for the promotion of
• The breakdown of marriages, the demand for their common interest. Representatives from each
both mother and father to work to meet the subaroup of the educational community shall sit
demands of a rising cost of living resulting to and participate in these bodies, the rules and
less or practically no more time for parents to procedures of which must be approved by them
spend time with their children. and duly published.
• Added to these is the increasing number of • RA. 8525 , Adopt -A-School Program Act
families composed of single mothers provides for school-community partnership. It
struggling to raise a family. With the burden allows private entities to assist a public school,
of earning lodged solely on the shoulders of whether elementary, secondary. or tertiary,...
one parent, single parents struggle to earn in, but not limited to, the following faculty
enough to provide for their families. development for training and further educ of
• This is not to mention the negative effect of facilities; upgrading of existing facilities, p
uncontrolled and unregulated use of publications and other instructional materials;
technology on the young. While the use of and mo instructional technologies."
technology has brought a lot of convenience • Even the Philippine Education for All (EFA)
its uncontrolled and unregulated use by the 2015 Plan, then a vision and a holistic
tech-savvy kids expose these kids to all sorts program of reforms that aimed to improve the
of information not necessarily favorable for quality of basic education for every Filipino
their development. by end 2015 likewise states: "Schools shall
LEGAL BASES FOR PARENTS AND continue to harness local resources and
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT facilitate involvement of every sector of the
community in the school improvement
• RA 9155, governance of basic education act - process.”
Republic Act 9155 also known as the
Governance of Basic Education Act provides • Agenda 2030 - So this EFA 2015 plan was
thata school must be managed by a school extended and becomes Agenda 2030. This
 Agenda 2030 has 7 new educational targets
that must involve education stakeholders
which is essential in school and community
partnership.
• UNESCO assistant director general of
Education, Dr, Qian Tan himself admit that
the agenda 2030 cannot be realized without
schools partnering with community.