The 7th Annual United Nations Conference on Teaching Peace and Human Rights in a Multicultural World formally concluded with the renowned educationalist Parveen Kassim, International Schools Educational Olympiad Chairperson and Karachi High School (KHS) Principal, winning the Global Educator Award for Pakistan.
According to a statement issued on Sunday, teachers, administrators, future leaders and representatives of non-governmental organisations from across the world gathered to acknowledge leadership in education.
The conference run by global education motivators, teachers and educators served to highlight the role of educationalists from Karachi; Chennai, India; Burnaby, Canada; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, Philippines; and the United States of America.
They also highlighted inspiring initiatives worldwide towards promoting and teaching peace within the classrooms.
Nominated for her notable contribution over the past two decades in bridging distances as well as gathering students from Pakistan and across the world, including youth from India, the United Kingdom and Australia, on a single platform to boost shared-learning, competition and healthy interaction through the educational meet hosted by the KHS every year, the Global Educator Award is a tribute to Kassim’s commitment to promoting innovation in education in Pakistan by extending learning across borders and beyond the realms of the classroom.
Also widely acknowledged for the KHS’s active partnership with the British Council’s Connecting Classroom initiative aimed at forging lasting partnerships among schools in the UK with others around the world, Kassim won laurels for Pakistan at the conference for breaking geographical barriers by promoting peace and instilling a sense of camaraderie, trust and understanding among young people from across the world.
