In this dynamic time of global integration, there is an intense search for educational models that prepare young people for global citizenship and for empowered and meaningful participation in the deep economic, socio-political, and spiritual transformation of the planet.

Education, like most current social structures, finds itself in the midst of a moral crisis. Its predominant focus on the transmission of information and on the development of logico-mathematical and linguistic intelligence and narrowly understood rational skills, does not recognize and engage the creative powers of the human spirit and heart. Hence, it does not educate the whole person. Ministries of Education worldwide are very conservative about change and need assistance in reconsidering their important role in this new historic epoch.^[1] That is why, for over a decade now, UNESCO has focused on developing education for global citizenship, which emphasizes skills for sustainable development.^[2] On this page, we will share with you new models and resources that rethink what it means for a person to be educated in this age.

Now, in the context of our global health, environmental and economic crises, it is particularly important to consider more seriously how transformative education on every level can cultivate optimal consciousness. This process is characterized by harmonizing the faculties of knowledge, love and will in an overall way of being, distinguished by systemic thinking, spiritual discernment, historical perspective, and empowered and creative engagement with the real needs of the world around us.