教育的全球挑战与变革力量

尊敬的香港特别行政区教育局局长蔡若莲博士，联合国驻华协调员办公室主任孔岚诺（Joe Colombano）先生，尊敬的一丹奖明师堂成员，各位来宾、同事们、女士们先生们，早上好！

热烈欢迎今天亲临现场和在线参与的各位嘉宾。

很高兴看到今天有这么多嘉宾出席。团队告诉我，我们已经满座。这说明疫情过后已经重回正常。期待在今年峰会主题“点亮创新火花——聚焦教育进步的智思妙想”下，共话真知灼见。

现在的年轻人接手的是一个充满前所未有挑战的世界。想象一下，仅在过去几年里，世界发生了怎样的变化。彷佛醒来就身处一个全新的世界。人工智能即将重塑生活方式，影响可能比互联网更为深远。新冠疫情暴露了教育和心理健康服务中的深层痛点。气候变化真切可见，不平等、不安全以及就业市场重新洗牌的影响也随之显现。

这些全球挑战——我们称之为生存挑战——也令我们深刻意识到，人与人之间彼此紧密相连。正因如此，我对世界上资源最为匮乏的的国家和地区的教育尤为关注。到2050年，全球85%的年轻人都将在亚洲和非洲。他们的未来就是我们所有人的未来。

问题可以迅速在全球蔓延，但解决方案也能如此。我相信教育可以重新改写生存挑战的故事线，助力下一代释放潜能，迎接挑战，构建他们理想的世界。

在过去的七年中，20位杰出教育工作者以得奖者和明师堂成员的身份加入一丹奖大家庭。在昨天的2023年的颁奖典礼上，我们把奖项颁发给季清华（Michelene Chi）教授，以表彰她对学习理论的贡献，以及夏·雷谢夫（Shai Reshef），以表彰他为让每一个有资格的学生都能接受高等教育而付诸努力。

这是怎样的一群人，他们在干什么？一丹奖明师堂教育家们共同推动一个扣人心弦的愿景：教育应如何改变，如何能够迅速、广泛而公正地实现改变。他们对早期儿童发展、游戏化学习、主动学习、集体领导力、包容力以及技术如何改善教学等方面，有着深刻洞见。

法兹勒·哈桑·阿贝德（Fazle Hasan Abed）爵士、帕特里夏·库尔（Patricia Kuhl）教授和乌莎·戈斯瓦米（Usha Goswami）教授让我们深刻理解了早期儿童教育和发展的变革力量。

薇奇·科尔波特（Vicky Colbert）、卡罗尔·德韦克（Carol Dweck）教授、季清华教授和朱永新教授积极构建的教育模型，证明即使在最弱势最贫苦的地区，也有可能普及高质量教育。

安吉·穆里米尔瓦（Angeline Murimirwa）、露西·莱克（Lucy Lake）和卡迈勒·艾哈迈德（Kamal Ahmad）将包容性讨论提升到一个新高度。他们的项目帮助成千上万的女性发现内在的力量，并积极投身于改变社区的工作中。

鲁克米尼·班纳吉（Rukmini Banerji）博士和温迪·科普（Wendy Kopp）体现了集体领导的力量。她们改变了人们对教育系统管理和服务对象的固有认知。

阿南特·阿格瓦尔（Anant Agarwal）教授、夏·雷谢夫、卡尔·威曼（Carl Wieman）教授和萨勒曼·可汗（Salman Khan）让我们认识到，教育不是配给制的——技术可将最优质的教育资源传递给世界各地的师生。

琳达·达林哈蒙德（Linda Darling-Hammond）博士、托马斯·凯恩（Thomas Kane）教授、拉里·赫奇斯（Larry Hedges）教授和埃里克·哈努谢克（Eric Hanushek）教授探索教育实践、研究和政策之间的联通点。在巩固教育的学科基础的同时，也在创设支持变革的环境。

这些杰出人士的理念正在世界各地引领变化。

具有远见卓识的教育家们深信思想的强大力量。他们的共同愿景让人们深刻认识到：所有学生都有成功的潜力，且必须享有成功的机会，也激励人们重新审视并构建卓越的课堂和教学实践，启示大家得出结论：优质教育应该普惠人人。而教育家们的实际行动，正不断改变着教育，这让他们的信念更加坚定。

具有远见卓识的教育家们也令我们保持开放的心态，去想象教育的无限可能性。他们正在将心理学、神经科学、经济学以及科技推向新境界，绘制颠覆传统，独具前瞻性的教育蓝图。认为孩子智力固定不变的陈腐思想已被打破，将女孩和少数族裔失学归咎于文化而非贫困的守旧偏见已被淘汰，将高等教育视为特权阶层专享的过时观念已被摒弃。

一丹奖大家庭正为教育编织出几年前还难以想象的崭新故事线。这些故事线展开了教育革新的新视角，重新燃起我们对教育能改变人生、改变社会的坚定信念。

我诚挚邀请您与我们一同踏上旅程，识别、分享并推广全球优秀教育研究和实践。让我们共同努力，令全世界所有人都能享受深度学习，乐趣盎然。

谢谢大家。

一丹奖创办人

陈一丹

2023年12月4日

Dr the Honorable Christine Choi, Secretary for Education of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Joe Colombano, Head of the United Nations Resident Coordinator Office in China, esteemed members of Yidan Council of Luminaries, distinguished guests, and colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, good morning!

A very warm welcome to all of you joining us today, in person. And of course, a very warm welcome to our guests joining online.

I am delighted to see that we have a very good turnout today. Our team tells me that we have a full house. It shows how great it is to be back to normal from the COVID-19 pandemic, and we can look forward to many interesting conversations along our Summit’s theme this year—“Ideas that spark change: a spotlight on solutions advancing education”.

Young people are inheriting a world of unprecedented challenges. Think about how things have changed in just the last few years. It’s almost like we have woken up in a new world. Artificial intelligence is poised to rearrange our way of life—perhaps in more profound ways than the introduction of the internet. COVID revealed deep vulnerabilities in our education and mental health services. Climate change became very real, as did threats of inequality, insecurity, and reordering of job markets.

These global challenges—call them existential challenges—have also reinforced the idea that we are deeply connected to one another. On this point, I have special concern for education in the least resourced countries and communities of the world. By 2050, Africa and Asia will be home to 85% of the world’s youth. Their future is everyone’s future.

Problems can spread around the world quickly, but so can solutions. I believe education can help us re-write the dominant storyline of existential threats. It can unlock the potential of the next generation to meet their challenges, and indeed, to build the world they want.

During the last seven years, 20 outstanding educators have joined the Yidan Prize family as laureates and luminaries. Yesterday, at the 2023 Yidan Prize Awards Ceremony, we awarded the Prize to Professor Michelene Chi for her contributions to learning theory, and to Shai Reshef for his efforts to make higher education available to qualified students everywhere.

Together, the Yidan Council of Luminaries is advancing a compelling vision of how education should change, and how it could change with speed, scale and justice. They offer profound insights into the transformative power of early childhood development, play based learning, active learning, collective leadership, inclusion, and the power of technology to improve teaching and learning.

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Professor Patricia Kuhl, and Professor Usha Goswami are giving us deep insights into the transformative power of early childhood education and development.

Vicky Colbert, Professor Carol Dweck, Professor Michelene Chi, and Professor Yongxin Zhu are building educational models that prove that high quality is possible for all, even for children in the most disadvantaged or distressed communities.

Angeline Murimirwa, Lucy Lake, and Kamal Ahmad are taking discussions about inclusion to a new level. Their programs enable thousands of women to discover their inner strengths and capabilities and put them to work to change their communities.

Dr Rukmini Banerji and Wendy Kopp are demonstrating the power of collective leadership. They are overturning many assumptions about how education systems are managed and for whom they are managed.

Professor Anant Agarwal, Shai Reshef, Professor Carl Wieman and Salman Khan are making us realize that there is no reason to ration education—technology can put the best educational resources in the hands of teachers and learners almost anywhere.

Dr Linda Darling-Hammond, Professor Thomas Kane, Professor Larry Hedges and Professor Eric Hanushek are finding ways to connect education practice, research, and policy. They are creating an enabling environment for change while strengthening the very foundations of education as a discipline.

Their ideas are sparking change in many parts of the world.

These visionary educators with us today firmly believe in the transformative power of ideas. Their collective vision leads people to understand that all students can and must succeed. They challenge us to reconceive what good classrooms and good teaching practices look like. They lead us to the conclusion that good education can be made available to everyone. Their actions are continuously reshaping education, further solidifying their commitment to this belief.

These visionary educators also remind us to keep an open mind, to imagine alternative futures. They are pushing the frontiers of psychology, neuroscience, economics, and technology to construct a vision of education that uproots conventional thinking. Gone is the idea that a child’s intelligence is fixed. Gone is the idea that culture rather than poverty keeps girls and minorities out of school. Gone is the idea that higher education is the domain of a privileged few.

They are writing new storylines for education that would have been difficult to imagine just a few years ago; storylines that make us imagine new futures for education and renew our faith in the power of education to change to change individual lives and societies.

I invite all of you to join us on a journey of identifying, sharing, and amplifying the great education research and practice around the world. Let us work together to help everyone, everywhere learn with depth and joy.

Thank you!

Charles CHEN Yidan

Founder, Yidan Prize

4 Dec, 2023