Mayor Shinsangjin: "Instilling Positive Perceptions of Marriage in Future Generations Will Lead Social Change"

Seongnam City Strengthens Capabilities of 67 Instructors for Low Birthrate Awareness Education in Elementary, Middle, and High Schools
First in the Nation to Directly Manage the Entire Process from Curriculum Development to Instructor Training and Student Education

Seongnam City, Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Shin Sang-jin) announced on the 13th that it will conduct refresher training for 67 instructors of low birthrate awareness education for elementary, middle, and high school students over two days on the 15th and 16th at the Yatap Youth Center (formerly Bundang Yatap Youth Training Center), 4th floor High-Tech Room.

Seongnam City Hall view. Provided by Seongnam City

This refresher training is designed to enhance the capabilities of Seongnam City's instructors by providing students with a balanced perspective on the importance of family, marriage, and childbirth, thereby instilling correct awareness and increasing the educational ripple effect.

The first day of training will include △ a special lecture by Hong Min-ki, a researcher at Korea National University of Education, titled “Understanding Changes in Population Structure and Directions for Population Education” (10:00 AM?12:00 PM) △ and methods for guiding high school curricula along with lecture demonstrations (1:00 PM?6:00 PM).

The second day will feature learning and practice of excellent cases in population education, discussions in four subgroups, and workshops.

The instructors participating in this training have completed Seongnam City's self-developed and operated population education instructor training course (a total of 50 hours) last August.

Following low birthrate awareness education (4 hours per class) provided to 201 classes (10,050 students) across 35 elementary, middle, and high schools last year, the city plans to conduct related education for 493 classes in 83 schools this year.

The city initially planned to expand the number of classes targeted for education to 300, an increase of 99 classes from last year, but due to the enthusiastic response from students and teachers who received the low birthrate awareness education and an unexpectedly high application rate, the number of classes targeted for education was increased 2.5 times.

Mayor Shin Sang-jin of Seongnam City said, “Seongnam City is the first local government nationwide to directly operate and manage all processes from curriculum development to instructor training and student education for low birthrate awareness improvement,” adding, “By instilling the importance of family and a positive perception of marriage in students, who are the future generation, we will lead social change.”

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