In this second episode of Education Transformed, Louka speaks with Dr Anantha Duraiappah, Director of the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development.

A depthful discussion about the whole brain approach to learning and education, including a confident approach to digital pedagogy, where neuroscience technology is applied to learning and teaching as a potentiality enhancer.

UNESCO MGIEP in New Delhi, India is UNESCO’s first category 1 institute in the Asia-Pacific region. As an experienced environmental-development economist; Dr Anantha Duraiappah plays a key role in positioning MGIEP as a leading research institute on education for peace, sustainable development and global citizenship.

Professor Duraiappah received his PhD in economics from the University of Texas in Austin, USA. He has authored numerous books and journal articles on environmental and developmental issues. Anantha also serves presently as as the policy forum editor for "The Journal of Human Development and Capacity". He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences (WAAS), a Founding Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association and a visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Anantha, in his previous post at the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), initiated and played a pivotal role in the establishment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). He was the Co-Chair of the Biodiversity Synthesis Group of the Kofi Anna commissioned Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and founding director of the Inclusive Wealth Report released at the Rio+20 Summit in 2012.

Dr. Duraiappah is presently focusing on researching and exploring how “Firing Gandhi Neurons” can be integrated into the educational curricular of the formal, informal and non-formal education systems around the globe.

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