Case Study presentation: Empowering Students’ Leadership in ESD through Networking at Asia-Pacific Level
Prof. Munirah Ghazali, RCE Penang
11th Global RCE Conference
7-9 December, 2018
Cebu, the Philippines
3. Online Conference on Empowering Asia Pacific Students’
Leadership in ESD through Networking (in preparation for
video competition)
Malaysia
36%
India
36%
South Korea
21%
Indonesia
7%
PARTICIPANTS
Link to YouTube for Online Conference: http://url.ie/139nu
4. Video Competition on Empowering Asia Pacific Students’
Leadership in ESD through Networking
Malaysia
Indonesia
India
PARTICIPANTS
Example of video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te8NGMYW3MQ
5. Geographical & Education Information
Region
Asia Pacific
Country
Malaysia, India, Korea, Indonesia and
Bangladesh
Locations
Penang, Malaysia; Goa, India, Tongyeong, Korea;
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Focal Point
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Funded by Penang State Government
Malaysia: Program for the
Encouragement of Science and
Technology
Level of Education
Primary, Secondary,
Teacher Education
6. Geographical & Education Information
Socioeconomic and environmental
characteristics
RCE Penang as one of the Asia Pacific
RCEs has the platform to offer student in
Penang to network with students in other
countries specifically in Korea, Indonesia,
Bangladesh and India
Description of sustainable development
challenge(s) in the area the project
addresses
Empowering students to collaborate and
share their ESD knowledge at global level
and specifically in this proposal at the Asia
Pacific level
7. Contents
OBJECTIVES
• To develop student leadership for building a
sustainable society through education focus on the
following themes which are Sustainable Consumption and
Production, Biodiversity and Climate Change.
• To promote international partnership as a mean of
developing student leadership in ESD
• To create leaders who are able to transform their
knowledge for a sustainable society
• To empower students to be the leaders in promoting
ESD
ACTIVITIES
• Webinar workshop on ESD leadership and video
editing focus on three themes: Sustainable
Consumption and Production, Biodiversity and
Climate Change
• Showcase of video produced and competition and
announcement of winners
RESULTS
More than 30 students from Penang, Yogjakarta
and Goa took part in the webinar workshop.
Students in Tongyeong reported that they will take
part in the webinar (available as recorded youtube
video).
TARGET GROUPS
Students age 13-17 years old
RATIONALE
Organized webinar educate students about ESD
specifically on sustainable consumption and
production, biodiversity and climate change
8. Lesson Learned
Not all schools in the participating RCEs could take part on the given date. For
example, RCE Goa students’ celebrate teachers day on 5th September.
Therefore, the team has uploaded the recorded webinar sessions on YouTube and
put the link on RCE Penang’s website. This gives students opportunities to view
the webinar later at their own time.
9. Key messages
The program is a video- competition focusing on Education for Sustainable
Development with three themes that are Sustainable Consumption and Production,
Biodiversity and Climate Change.
This program provide a collaboration opportunities for students in Penang, Korea,
Bangladesh, Indonesia and India to share and exchange ideas on sustainability related
to the specific themes. It is hoped that this project could:
Empower students leadership in ESD at Asia Pasific Level.
Showcase examples of students initiative in SCP, BD and CC from Penang (Malaysia),
Tongyeong (Korea), Yogyakarta, (Indonesia), Dhaka(Bangladesh), Delhi (India).
Foster students collaboration, networking at lAP level via current media
