Organizing Advocacy and

applied Social Science

Organizing Advocacy and applied Social Science
In our present day of free speech and
democracy, organizing advocacy is
very much part of social cohesion.
Issues that matter to individuals,
groups, and communities have to be
raised to political platforms and find
public solutions and policy where
possible.
Organizing Advocacy and applied
Social Science
In organizing advocacy for issues of great
concern, one can benefit from core values
of applied social sciences. These values
foster the common good and inclusion and
a greater sense of life in community.
People are encouraged to be in solidarity
with one another and go beyond oneself.
Education and Applied Social Sciences
 Jacques Delors, in his capacity as Chairperson of the
international commission on education for the 21st
century and former European commission president, in
the UNESCO 1996 report, He said “ The commission
does not see education as a miracle cure or a magic
formula opening the door to a world in which all ideals
will be attained, but as one of the principal means
available to foster a deeper and more harmonious form
of human development and thereby to reduce poverty,
exclusion, ignorance, oppression and war”
In many instances, education has
played a big role in reducing
poverty, social exclusion,
ignorance, oppression and war.
 FOUR Pillars of Education

Learning to Know
Learning to Do
Learning to Live Together
Learning to Be
 Learningto know. This type of learning is radically
different from rote learning.
 Learningto do.This type of learning implies the
application of what learners have learned or know into
practices.
 Learning to Live together. This type of learning is
critical in the increasingly globalizing world.
 Learningto be.This type of learning is critical echoes
the possibility of becoming dehumanized as a result of
technical change and therefore put on scaffold.