{"id":1712,"date":"2020-12-21T16:37:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T16:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icae.global\/en\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2020-12-21T16:37:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T16:37:59","slug":"finding-the-silver-lining-in-2020-message-and-season-greetings-from-icae-president-robbie-guevara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/2020\/12\/finding-the-silver-lining-in-2020-message-and-season-greetings-from-icae-president-robbie-guevara\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the silver lining in 2020 (Message and Season Greetings from ICAE President, Robbie Guevara)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear members,<\/p><p>To say it has been a challenging year for most of us, is an understatement. The headline of the year will be the pandemic, or hopefully by the time you are reading this, it will be about the wide scale access and availability of the vaccine. As we see the end of 2020, I hope that you can give yourself time, even just a brief moment, to pause and try to find that silver lining.<\/p><p>Having been elected in April 2020, just as the pandemic was spreading around the world, the pandemic cast a shadow over our&nbsp;<strong>first year as the new ICAE Executive Committee (EC)<\/strong>. We were not only inducted online via zoom, but we were inducted to a whole new way of meeting and engaging with our members.<\/p><p>For myself, the highlights of the year were the many opportunities to directly engage with our members in all regions. First were the series of regional webinars, such as the&nbsp;<strong>GRALE 5 Webinars organised with the UIL and DVV Internationa<\/strong>l, followed by ICAE&#8217;s own&nbsp;<strong>regional webinars in preparation for CONFINTEA VII<\/strong>(we have reported to you). Alos, if you want to know more about CONFINTEA, you can watch the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gYrapBDlJQI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">podcast with Katarina Popovic<\/a>, ICAE Secretary General producted with the European Association for Adult Education (EAEA):&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gYrapBDlJQI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gYrapBDlJQI<\/a><\/p><p>Second, were the more focused engagements with our members in preparing two key global statements.&nbsp;<strong>ICAE&#8217;s<\/strong><strong>contribution to GRALE 5,<\/strong>expanded to a 33 page statement, due to the number of best practice examples of active citizenship education received from our members. The&nbsp;<strong>UNESCO Futures of Education paper,<\/strong>that was released online in September 2020, was prepared through an intensive and collective writing process with representatives from all our regions and strategic partners.<\/p><p>Both the regional webinars and the drafting of the two statements were effectively facilitated by our ability to quickly learn to utilise these online platforms, which in turn opened more opportunities for us to participate and advocate for adult learning and education in global and regional events like&nbsp;<strong>HLPF (UN High Level Political Forum on the SDGs), Bridge 47, EPALE (European Platform for Adult Learning and Education), GAL (Global Alliance for Litercy)<\/strong>, etc.<\/p><p>So, this is my silver lining for 2020, how the travel restrictions have allowed ICAE to more effectively reach out and engage our members across the world (and reduce greenhouse gases). I share this silver lining, without diminishing the massive impact the pandemic continues to have on education, health, suppression of political rights and of course the economy. Yes, the vaccine is meant to be just around the corner, but even with the vaccine, we are aware that most of the deep seated inequalities that were exposed and aggravated by the pandemic will remain.<\/p><p>Therefore, our committment to addressing these inequalities through transformative adult learning and education must and will continue, through whatever medium will be available for us to use in our teaching and in our advocacy. Let me thank the members of the ICAE staff and the new Executive for their tireless efforts to establish this solid foundation of membership engagement during these challenging times. But most of all, let me thank you, our members and strategic partners, for staying up late or waking up early in order to &#8216;zoom in&#8217; and engage with us throughout this year.<\/p><p>Stay well, stay safe, stay connected and stay committed to our core purpose. This is how we can ensure that in the future we will not just be looking for the silver lining, but that this silver lining will be lighting up our way to achieving a more equitable and sustainable future for all.<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Encontrando el resquicio de esperanza en 2020 (Mensaje del Presidente del ICAE, Robbie Guevara)<\/strong><\/h2><p>Queridos miembros,<\/p><p>Decir que ha sido un a\u00f1o dif\u00edcil para la mayor\u00eda de nosotros, es una subestimaci\u00f3n. El titular del a\u00f1o ser\u00e1 la pandemia, o con suerte, para cuando est\u00e9 leyendo esto, ser\u00e1 sobre el acceso a gran escala y la disponibilidad de la vacuna. A medida que vemos el final de 2020, espero que pueda darse tiempo, aunque sea un breve momento, para hacer una pausa y tratar de encontrar ese resquicio de esperanza.<\/p><p>Habiendo sido elegido en abril de 2020, justo cuando la pandemia se estaba extendiendo por todo el mundo, la pandemia proyect\u00f3 una sombra sobre nuestro&nbsp;<strong>primer a\u00f1o como el nuevo Comit\u00e9 Ejecutivo del ICAE (CE)<\/strong>. No s\u00f3lo nos indujeron a estar en l\u00ednea a trav\u00e9s del zoom, sino que tambi\u00e9n nos indujeron a una forma totalmente nueva de reunirnos e involucrarnos con nuestros miembros.<\/p><p>Para m\u00ed, lo m\u00e1s destacado del a\u00f1o fueron las muchas oportunidades de relacionarnos directamente con nuestros miembros en todas las regiones. Primero fue la serie de seminarios web regionales, como los seminarios web&nbsp;<strong>GRALE 5 organizados con el UIL y la DVV Internaciona<\/strong>l, seguidos por los propios&nbsp;<strong>seminarios web regionales del ICAE en preparaci\u00f3n de la CONFINTEA VII<\/strong>(de los que les hemos informado). Por otra parte, si quieren saber m\u00e1s sobre la CONFINTEA, pueden ver el&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gYrapBDlJQI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">podcast con Katarina Popovic<\/a>, Secretaria General del ICAE producido con la Asociaci\u00f3n Europea de Educaci\u00f3n de Adultos (AEEA):&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gYrapBDlJQI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gYrapBDlJQI<\/a><\/p><p>En segundo lugar, fueron los compromisos m\u00e1s centrados con nuestros miembros en la preparaci\u00f3n de dos declaraciones mundiales clave. L<strong>a contribuci\u00f3n del ICAE al GRALE 5<\/strong>, se ampli\u00f3 a una declaraci\u00f3n de 33 p\u00e1ginas, debido al n\u00famero de ejemplos de mejores pr\u00e1cticas de educaci\u00f3n ciudadana activa recibidas de nuestros miembros.&nbsp;<strong>El documento de la UNESCO Futuros de la Educaci\u00f3<\/strong>n, que se public\u00f3 en l\u00ednea en septiembre de 2020, se prepar\u00f3 mediante un proceso de redacci\u00f3n intensivo y colectivo con representantes de todas nuestras regiones y asociados estrat\u00e9gicos.<\/p><p>Tanto los seminarios web regionales como la redacci\u00f3n de las dos declaraciones se vieron efectivamente facilitados por nuestra capacidad de aprender r\u00e1pidamente a utilizar estas plataformas en l\u00ednea, lo que a su vez nos abri\u00f3 m\u00e1s oportunidades de participar y defender el aprendizaje y la educaci\u00f3n de adultos en eventos mundiales y regionales como&nbsp;<strong>el HLPF (Foro Pol\u00edtico de Alto Nivel de las Naciones Unidas sobre los SDG), Bridge 47, EPALE (Plataforma Europea para el Aprendizaje y la Educaci\u00f3n de Adultos), GAL (Alianza Mundial para la Alfabetizaci\u00f3n),<\/strong>etc.<\/p><p>As\u00ed pues, este es mi resquicio de esperanza para el a\u00f1o 2020, la forma en que las restricciones de viaje han permitido al ICAE llegar m\u00e1s eficazmente y comprometer a nuestros miembros en todo el mundo (y reducir los gases de efecto invernadero). Comparto este resquicio de esperanza, sin disminuir el impacto masivo que la pandemia sigue teniendo en la educaci\u00f3n, la salud, la supresi\u00f3n de los derechos pol\u00edticos y, por supuesto, en la econom\u00eda. S\u00ed, se supone que la vacuna est\u00e1 a la vuelta de la esquina, pero incluso con la vacuna, somos conscientes de que la mayor\u00eda de las profundas desigualdades que fueron expuestas y agravadas por la pandemia permanecer\u00e1n.<\/p><p>Por lo tanto, nuestro compromiso de hacer frente a estas desigualdades mediante un aprendizaje y una educaci\u00f3n de adultos transformadores debe continuar y continuar\u00e1, a trav\u00e9s de cualquier medio que est\u00e9 disponible para que lo utilicemos en nuestra ense\u00f1anza y en nuestra promoci\u00f3n. Perm\u00edtanme agradecer a los miembros del personal del ICAE y al nuevo Ejecutivo por sus incansables esfuerzos para establecer esta s\u00f3lida base de compromiso de los miembros en estos tiempos dif\u00edciles. Pero sobre todo, perm\u00edtanme agradecerles a ustedes, nuestros miembros y socios estrat\u00e9gicos, por quedarse hasta tarde o levantarse temprano para &#8220;acercarse&#8221; y comprometerse con nosotros a lo largo de este a\u00f1o.<\/p><p>Mant\u00e9nganse bien, mant\u00e9nganse seguros, mant\u00e9nganse conectados y mant\u00e9nganse comprometidos con nuestro prop\u00f3sito principal. As\u00ed es como podemos asegurarnos de que en el futuro no s\u00f3lo buscaremos el lado bueno, sino que este lado bueno iluminar\u00e1 nuestro camino para lograr un futuro m\u00e1s equitativo y sostenible para todos.<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Trouver le bon c\u00f4t\u00e9 des choses en 2020 (Message du pr\u00e9sident du ICAE, Robbie Guevara)<\/strong><\/h2><p>Chers membres,<\/p><p>Dire que l&#8217;ann\u00e9e a \u00e9t\u00e9 difficile pour la plupart d&#8217;entre nous est un euph\u00e9misme. Le titre de l&#8217;ann\u00e9e sera la pand\u00e9mie, ou, esp\u00e9rons-le, au moment o\u00f9 vous lirez ces lignes, il sera question de l&#8217;acc\u00e8s et de la disponibilit\u00e9 \u00e0 grande \u00e9chelle du vaccin. \u00c0 l&#8217;approche de la fin de l&#8217;ann\u00e9e 2020, j&#8217;esp\u00e8re que vous pourrez vous donner le temps, ne serait-ce qu&#8217;un bref instant, de faire une pause et d&#8217;essayer de trouver le bon c\u00f4t\u00e9 des choses.<\/p><p>Ayant \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu en avril 2020, au moment o\u00f9 la pand\u00e9mie se propageait dans le monde entier, la pand\u00e9mie a jet\u00e9 une ombre sur&nbsp;<strong>notre premi\u00e8re ann\u00e9e en tant que nouveau comit\u00e9 ex\u00e9cutif (CE) du ICAE<\/strong>. Nous n&#8217;avons pas seulement \u00e9t\u00e9 intronis\u00e9s en ligne par le biais d&#8217;un zoom, mais nous avons \u00e9t\u00e9 initi\u00e9s \u00e0 une toute nouvelle fa\u00e7on de rencontrer nos membres et de nous engager avec eux.<\/p><p>Pour moi, les points forts de l&#8217;ann\u00e9e ont \u00e9t\u00e9 les nombreuses occasions de dialoguer directement avec nos membres dans toutes les r\u00e9gions. Tout d&#8217;abord,<strong>la s\u00e9rie de webinaires r\u00e9gionaux,<\/strong>tels que&nbsp;<strong>les webinaires GRALE 5 organis\u00e9s avec l&#8217;UIL et DVV Internation<\/strong>al, suivis des&nbsp;<strong>webinaires r\u00e9gionaux du ICAE en pr\u00e9paration de la CONFINTEA VII<\/strong>(nous vous en avons fait part). Si vous voulez en savoir plus sur la CONFINTEA, vous pouvez \u00e9galement regarder&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gYrapBDlJQI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">le podcast avec Katarina Popovic<\/a>, secr\u00e9taire g\u00e9n\u00e9rale du CIEA, r\u00e9alis\u00e9 avec l&#8217;Association europ\u00e9enne pour l&#8217;\u00e9ducation des adultes (EAEA):&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gYrapBDlJQI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gYrapBDlJQI<\/a><\/p><p>Deuxi\u00e8mement, les engagements plus cibl\u00e9s avec nos membres dans la pr\u00e9paration de deux d\u00e9clarations globales cl\u00e9s.&nbsp;<strong>La contribution du ICAE \u00e0 la GRALE 5<\/strong>, s&#8217;est \u00e9tendue \u00e0 une d\u00e9claration de 33 pages, en raison du nombre d&#8217;exemples de meilleures pratiques d&#8217;\u00e9ducation \u00e0 la citoyennet\u00e9 active re\u00e7us de nos membres.&nbsp;<strong>Le document de<\/strong><strong>l&#8217;UNESCO intitul\u00e9 Futures of Education<\/strong>, qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 mis en ligne en septembre 2020, a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9par\u00e9 gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 un processus de r\u00e9daction intensif et collectif avec des repr\u00e9sentants de toutes nos r\u00e9gions et de nos partenaires strat\u00e9giques.<\/p><p>Les webinaires r\u00e9gionaux et la r\u00e9daction des deux d\u00e9clarations ont \u00e9t\u00e9 efficacement facilit\u00e9s par notre capacit\u00e9 \u00e0 apprendre rapidement \u00e0 utiliser ces plateformes en ligne, ce qui nous a ouvert davantage de possibilit\u00e9s de participer et de d\u00e9fendre l&#8217;apprentissage et l&#8217;\u00e9ducation des adultes lors d&#8217;\u00e9v\u00e9nements mondiaux et r\u00e9gionaux tels que le&nbsp;<strong>HLPF (Forum politique de haut niveau des Nations unies sur les SDG), Bridge 47, EPALE (Plateforme europ\u00e9enne pour l&#8217;apprentissage et l&#8217;\u00e9ducation des adultes), GAL (Alliance mondiale pour l&#8217;alphab\u00e9tisation)<\/strong>, etc.<\/p><p>Voil\u00e0 donc mon point positif pour 2020, \u00e0 savoir comment les restrictions de voyage ont permis au ICAE de toucher et d&#8217;engager plus efficacement nos membres dans le monde entier (et de r\u00e9duire les gaz \u00e0 effet de serre). Je partage ce point positif, sans pour autant diminuer l&#8217;impact massif que la pand\u00e9mie continue d&#8217;avoir sur l&#8217;\u00e9ducation, la sant\u00e9, la suppression des droits politiques et bien s\u00fbr l&#8217;\u00e9conomie. Oui, le vaccin est cens\u00e9 \u00eatre \u00e0 port\u00e9e de main, mais m\u00eame avec le vaccin, nous sommes conscients que la plupart des in\u00e9galit\u00e9s profondes qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 expos\u00e9es et aggrav\u00e9es par la pand\u00e9mie subsisteront.<\/p><p>C&#8217;est pourquoi notre engagement \u00e0 rem\u00e9dier \u00e0 ces in\u00e9galit\u00e9s par une \u00e9ducation et une formation des adultes transformatrices doit se poursuivre et se poursuivra, quel que soit le support dont nous disposerons pour notre enseignement et nos actions de sensibilisation. Permettez-moi de remercier les membres du personnel du ICAE et le nouvel ex\u00e9cutif pour leurs efforts inlassables visant \u00e0 \u00e9tablir cette base solide de l&#8217;engagement des membres en ces temps difficiles. Mais surtout, permettez-moi de vous remercier, vous, nos membres et partenaires strat\u00e9giques, d&#8217;\u00eatre rest\u00e9s debout tard ou de vous \u00eatre lev\u00e9s t\u00f4t afin de &#8220;zoomer&#8221; et de vous engager avec nous tout au long de cette ann\u00e9e.<\/p><p>Restez bien, restez en s\u00e9curit\u00e9, restez connect\u00e9s et restez engag\u00e9s envers notre objectif principal. C&#8217;est ainsi que nous pouvons garantir qu&#8217;\u00e0 l&#8217;avenir, nous ne chercherons pas seulement le bon c\u00f4t\u00e9 des choses, mais que ce bon c\u00f4t\u00e9 \u00e9clairera notre chemin vers un avenir plus \u00e9quitable et plus durable pour tous.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"http:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ICAE-wishes-you.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ICAE-wishes-you.png 940w, https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ICAE-wishes-you-600x503.png 600w, https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ICAE-wishes-you-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ICAE-wishes-you-768x644.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear members, To say it has been a challenging year for most of us, is an understatement. The headline of the year will be the pandemic, or hopefully by the time you are reading this, it will be about the wide scale access and availability of the vaccine. As we see the end of 2020, &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Finding the silver lining in 2020 (Message and Season Greetings from ICAE President, Robbie Guevara)\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/2020\/12\/finding-the-silver-lining-in-2020-message-and-season-greetings-from-icae-president-robbie-guevara\/#more-1712\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finding the silver lining in 2020 (Message and Season Greetings from ICAE President, Robbie Guevara)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","lalita-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ICAE-wishes-you.png","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/1712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1714,"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/1712\/revisions\/1714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}