The 2020 World Literacy Summit 2020 is the fourth summit hosted by the World Literacy Foundation. It combines speeches from international literacy specialists, including NGO leaders, academics and literacy entrepreneurs. The discussion will share knowledge of the worlds literacy statistics, improvement and goals for the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
One academic at Newcastle interested in achieving SDG 4 is\nDr Steve Humble. Dr Humble researches the \u2018global citizenship\u2019 phenomenon.\nGlobal citizenship is a combination of the themes of justice, equality,\ndiversity, identity, belonging and sustainable development. Steve is interested\nin how children around the world perceive themselves as global citizens, and\nconducted his research with children in Ghana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The children involved in the research overwhelmingly\nidentified as global citizens, even though there was little GCE implemented in\ntheir school curriculum. Dr Humble\u2019s research proves to us how important it is\nthat we implemented global citizenship education into our school curriculums to\nhelp the fight for sustainable development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the NGOs particularly involved in this week\u2019s events\nis the Global Partnership for Education. The GPE and their partners push for\nthe equal education of children across the world. Their efforts have allowed\nmillions of children, especially girls, access to classrooms, teachers and\nmaterials across the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Between 2015 and 2018, there was an increase of 8% partner\ncountries having quality learning assessment systems in place to evaluate the\nprogress of children. The GPE has links with Ghana, where academics from\nNewcastle such as Dr Humble along with our very own intern, Elle, have\nconducted research and hope to improve the development of girls in the country.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n More of Dr Humble’s inspiring work can be found here: <\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/drmaths.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rebecca Woodcock, BA Politics at Newcastle University Newcastle University has some great academics focusing on the Sustainable Development Goals. As the World Literacy Summit moves online this week due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we thought it would be a … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sustainability\/files\/2020\/04\/Dr-Steve-Humble-711x1024.jpg\"){kind=spacer}