UNCC Higher Education: Addressing Global Challenges Through Education

This essay, submitted by a student at UNCC, explores the interconnectedness of shared responsibility and common good in addressing global challenges. The essay identifies education as a critical global issue, highlighting the need for its widespread provision to foster social harmony and individual flourishing. It examines the rising problems of intolerance and conflict, emphasizing the role of education in transforming societal dimensions and promoting cross-cultural understanding. The student proposes various ways to address these challenges, including promoting cultural competence, moral education, and global campaigns led by organizations like the UNO. The essay stresses the importance of primary education, particularly for girls, and the cultivation of human rights and dignity. It concludes by emphasizing the role of educators and change agents in fostering social sustainability and eradicating social evils through the transformative power of education, advocating for shared responsibility to achieve common good and social justice.

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Identifying a global challenge or issue
Shared responsibility and common good are quite interlinked with each other because it
deals with the betterment of the society and the people. The human beings form a larger part of
the society and the duty of the people is to maintain the integrity of the society by developing
such norms for exercising the important things for the human beings, especially those who are
lagging behind (Edwards & Penney, 2014). These people are lagging behind because they are
unable to avail the facilities of the society. The common good is the thing that helps the people to
do good for the individuals so they can flourish in their lives and the whole community can be
benefitted from the common good. To do good to the individuals and the entire community is the
shared responsibility of the people (Barna, 2013).
One such global issue is education that has not been regarded and taken care of to an
extent that it should have been done. Education is such a thing that has to be provided to all the
people in the world and it is a shared responsibility of the community. The welfare of self and
the community is well associated with it. Education has a huge role to play in transforming the
21st century dimensions (Beetham & Sharpe, 2013). The purpose of education is to spread the
enlightenment across the world. The spread of education in the perfect way is not done properly
in these days and it is in jeopardy. This is high time to think upon it and do the common good for
the people. The society is getting connected through social media and other platforms but the
evils and intolerance and conflict are rising every day. Every society is going through a deep
transformation and there is an urgent need for the people to get accustomed to it. Therefore, it is
of utmost importance for the society to share the responsibility of the education to understand the
purpose of the changes and decide if it is for good or bad (Peters, 2015).

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Proposing ways to address the challenge
This challenge of intolerance and conflicts among the human beings has to be stopped in
order to make the society and the planet earth a better place to live in. The society and the
experts have to think about some ways that this challenge can be curbed. It has been to the
context that new power hubs have been increasing due to globalization (Stromquist & Monkman,
2014). People from different parts from the world are getting opportunities to work in the
different levels at different countries. They are looking to put their names on the global standards
by exercising their expertise in their respective fields. However, the problem lies in another
place. The people are quite educated enough in terms of degrees but they are not at all educated
enough from the moral perspectives (Sherif, 2015).
The conflicts among the human beings have been a rising problem in the global
perspectives. The cross-cultural differences have raised a much hue and cry. The economic,
social, cultural and environmental development of the entire society largely depends upon the
fact how the people have been educated. If they do not learn to respect and show dignity to each
other, they will probably never learn the aspects of social benevolence and the act of help. The
humanistic vision of education is seen as doing common good to the people of the country and
the society at large. The people must be taught about the cultural competence, showing respect to
everyone whether elder or smaller in age and to focus on learning the environments of the
business. This will help them to assess and comprehend what things are to be improved in order
to maintain the integrity of the projects (Yousefi et al., 2014). The people in the society have to
understand what they are lacking to learn the business environments. The sustainable
development of the business environment has to be achieved. In order to do that the common
good has to be served by all the people who invariably are the parts of it.

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The shared responsibility of the people is to understand what things are needed in order
to cope up with the lacks that a human being has. Campaigns can be arranged to raise the
awareness among the people in the society who do not have the idea on how to adjust to the
problems of the society. The experts may be given the duty to do the common good for them
(Machin, Salvanes & Pelkonen, 2012). They should be given training on the moral aspects in the
society. The global organizations like the UNO can take the initiatives to make a global
campaign to raise the awareness among the people of the society. Only then the people can be
educated in the true manner. It is a tried and tested fact that education is the best transformative
force in the world. The most powerful method is the fact that the adults and the youth should be
learned about the basic etiquettes to be maintained in the society.
This factor should be looked at form a broader perspective. They must foster learning
throughout their lives. The children should be sent to the primary schools from an early age and
they should learn the etiquettes from that time only. This would help them to develop an
understanding how to behave rightly. The primary educations should be made a basic right in
every country and a mandatory thing. If anyone breaks this, the parents should be punished. The
girl children should also be educated as it has been seen that the girls are deprived from the lights
of education. This way the common good can be done by the shared responsibility of the
teachers, educators and the change agents. Human rights and the sense of dignity should be
taught to the children. The educators should possess a better knowledge about how to implement
the change process within the society. The social evils like poverty and lack of social justice can
be eradicated only if the light of education is spread (Mihai, Ţiţan & Manea, 2015). The social
sustainability is required to reform the society in a proper way.

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These social challenges have to be fought by keeping one thing in mind and i.e. to save
the society by any means. In order to do that, people can give their best efforts in many ways.
The solidarity in the international level should be maintained in every sense. This factor will
have to be the priority for the people within the society. Education is the foremost right of all the
human beings (Janks, 2014). The common good of the society can be done only if the educators,
teachers and the change agents take the shared responsibility to do the common good for the
society in order to educate everyone. There are high chances that the society may get indulged in
various ill things that could seriously affect the society seriously (Janks, 2014). The common
good must be done to save the society from the grasp of degradation. The social justice has to be
established by implementing the equal rights among the people. This is how the goals can be
achieved.

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