UNESCO’s Futures of Education: Learning to become is a global initiative to reimagine how knowledge and learning can shape the future of humanity and the planet. The initiative is designed as a co-construction process that activates broad public engagement, expert inputs, as well as the work of an independent International Commission of the Futures of Education chaired by the President of Ethiopia. The Education Research and Foresight programme, which serves as the Secretariat to the International Commission, wishes to commission background papers (5000 words) that address one of four core areas the Commission has identified and sketched out a vision for:

- Human and Planetary Sustainability
- Knowledge Production, Access and Governance
- Citizenship and Participation
- Work and Economic Security

Each background paper will need to be explicitly future-oriented and give consideration to changing global contexts. The initiative uses the horizon of 2050 - beyond the scope of many forecasting projections - in order to encourage creative and innovative ideas on the relationships between probable/anticipated futures and possible/alternative futures. Each paper is also asked to include consideration of gender, culture/cultural heritage, and technology which the commission has identified as transversal issues cutting across each of these four core areas.

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Please address proposals and questions to: [email protected]