Challenges and concerns of education brought to fore: Collector V Vinay Chand

Visakhapatnam: Awareness, connection, insight and purpose are the four pillars of a healthy mind, founder and director of the Centre for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison Richard Davidson said.

Addressing delegates who arrived from different parts of the world to participate in the three-day event 'Transforming Education Conference for Humanity (TECH) -2019' that began here on Tuesday, he stated that people who do not pay attention to what they do, were significantly unhappy as the studies prove that a wandering mind continues to be an unhappy mind.

Elaborating on the importance of mindfulness, he mentioned that there is a need to encourage children on cultivating the habit of mindfulness for their well-being.

Organised by UNESCO in association with the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP), the first day of the event covered topics such as education today: challenges, concerns and wish list for the future, well-being is a skill, am

Speaking on the occasion, District Collector V Vinay Chand said that the State government was keen on transforming the education system by embarking on ambitious schemes such as Nadu-Nedu' to improve school infrastructure, 'Amma Vodi' to bring back school drop-outs to the school and introduction of English as medium of instruction from the next academic year to help government school students to be on par with the corporate school students.

Focusing on the main themes – Transforming pedagogies for social and emotional learning, reimagining learning spaces for planetary citizenship and data learning and education -- role of Artificial Intelligence, the event will continue at hotel Novotel till December 12.

Director of UNESCO, Bangkok Shigeru Aoyagi, Director of UNESCO, MGIEP Anantha Duraiappah, among others spoke.