The Future of Education Related to SDG 16 (Peace, ‎Justice, and Strong Institutions)

Sultan Kowkas; Shaheen Shayeb; Narmeen Bransi

doi:10.56741/bei.v3i01.517

Authors

Sultan Kowkas
skowkas@gmail.com
National University, Palestine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5918-8939
Shaheen Shayeb National University, Palestine https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5020-4413
Narmeen Bransi National University, Palestine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56741/bei.v3i01.517

Keywords:

Education, Future of Education, SDG4, SDG16, Sustainable development goals

Abstract

The spreading aspects of the seventeen sustainable development goals have been of concern to ‎researchers in education worldwide. These goals have shed light on and captured the attention of ‎very crucial issues. The significance of these issues (the core of each SDG) lies in their ‎importance, connectedness, and mutual influence on each other. Education, ‎ the highest peak of achievement in every society, and hence in the whole (small) world, is ‎directly affected by each SDG. That was the reason for considering the future of Education in sight ‎of one of the most influential sustainable goals, namely, peace, justice, and strong institutions. The ‎current paper is a position paper that discusses the float of the sixteenth sustainable goal along the ‎future of Education. The researchers propose two statements: firstly, SDG 4 (Quality Education) ‎and SDG 16 possess a reciprocal interaction property (i.e., mutually impact each other). ‎Secondly, this cyclic process has to start by first accomplishing SDG 16‎‏.

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Author Biographies

Sultan Kowkas, National University, Palestine

is a Ph.D. Candidate in Teaching and Learning at An-Najah National University, Palestine. M.A. in ‎Pure Mathematics from Birzeit University, Palestine. He has been a Mathematics and Teaching ‎strategies instructor at Sakhnin College, Jerusalem, for preservice teachers since 2016, and he has been a high-school Mathematics teacher for 24 years. (email: skowkas@gmail.com). ‎

Shaheen Shayeb, National University, Palestine

is Ph.D. Candidate in Teaching and Learning at An-Najah National University, Palestine. M.A. in ‎Teaching and Learning (Arabic Language Teaching and Literature). He is a lecturer at Al-Qasemi ‎Academic College of Education, Israel. He has been a high-school Arabic Language teacher for over 20 ‎years. (email: shahen.gzali@gmail.com).

Narmeen Bransi, National University, Palestine

is a Ph.D. Candidate in Teaching and Learning at An-Najah National University, Palestine. ‎M.ED. in Teaching and Learning Arabic Language. M.A. in Assessment and Evaluation. She ‎works as an educational member of the Israeli Program for Innovations in Education and is a ‎trainer for linguistic enlightenment in the Arabic Language for primary schools. (email: ‎narmeen954@gmail.com).

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