Gwangju Office of Education Successfully Completes 'Community-Linked Parent and Citizen Education'

Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education is conducting 'Community-Linked Parent and Citizen Education.' Photo by Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Cho Hyung-joo] The Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education successfully completed the 'Community-Linked Parent and Citizen Education' conducted from June 3 to November 11 in collaboration with small local civic groups and village education communities.

According to the Office of Education on the 14th, the 'Community-Linked Parent and Citizen Education' was implemented to create an environment for visiting parent education and to provide a platform for communication. The Office of Education operated a total of 16 sessions across 12 lectures in partnership with four organizations: ▲ Nonviolent Peace Education Center - Community Conflict Care 'Restorative Circle' ▲ Gwangju Village Education Community Forum 'It Takes a Whole Village to Raise a Child' ▲ Gwangju Jeonnam Buddhist Environmental Solidarity - Responding to the Climate Crisis, A Great Transformation of Civilization ▲ Gwangju Human Rights Watch 'Hwaljjak' - Reading the Era through Human Rights.

In particular, the Nonviolent Peace Education Center's 'Restorative Circle' shared a new paradigm for viewing conflicts and was conducted as a process to practice listening, understand conflicts, and learn the value of mutual respect through real-life cases, providing meaningful time for parents and citizens.

An Seok, the Officer in Charge of Citizen Participation, stated, "We hope this ‘Community-Linked Parent and Citizen Education’ has been an opportunity to improve accessibility to parent education," adding, "We will continue to make efforts to expand educational participation by establishing a demand-centered platform in the future."

For more details, please visit the Gwangju Parent Support Center website or contact the Parent Participation Team of the Citizen Participation Office at the Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education.

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