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Transforming Education and Shaping Our Futures Together (SangSaeng no.58, 2022) Corporate author: APCEIU As humanity is facing unprecedented social, economic and environmental challenges, positive changes are necessary. And education plays a key role in adapting and responding to a changing world as it can be the most reliable tool to shape our future into a more inclusive, sustainable, and just world. In this context, SangSaeng No. 58 focuses on “Transforming Education and Shaping Our Futures Together” with the goal of exploring possible alternatives to educational systems and practices. Contents 03 Editor’s Note 04 Special ColumnTransformative Education for Learning to Live Together / Lim Hyun Mook 08 FOCUS: Transforming Education and Shaping Our Futures Together 08 Global Movement to Educate for Peace – Develop Hope by Focusing on an Educational Renaissance that’s Deliberate / Fernando M. Reimers 12 University as the Foundation of Education – Effective Education System Discovers Attributes that Help to Excel / Madhav Das Nalapat 15 Vision for a Feminist, Decolonized Education – Develop Two-accountability Education that Furthers Today’s Standard / Shamah Bulangis 19 Best Practices 19 Best of Both Worlds – Collaborative Approach to Transforming Education / Dailess Banda-Zulu and Sibylle Freiermuth 23 Leading Impactful Transformation in Local Community – Grassroots Level Educational Innovation that Inspires Future Action / IniOluwa Odekunle 26 Special Report 26 Asia-Pacific Education Ministers Call for Responsive Covid-19 Learning Recovery, Transformation of Education Systems – Highlights of the Second Asia-Pacific Regional Education Minister’s Conference (APREMC-II) / Jenelle Babb, Worapot Yodpet, Seek Ling Tan 29 Transforming Education: A Call to Action – Education Stakeholders Gather to Reimagine Education and Revitalize Commitments at the Transforming Education Pre-Summit / Transforming Education Summit Secretariat 32 Story TimeMy Role Model Teacher / Joseph Sandamira 34 Letter OneCambodian Approach Toward Educational Development for Better Future Connectedness, Readiness / Mok Sarom 36 Peace in My MemoryLost and Found Peace in War Times – Defining Secret Puzzle of Peace in War-torn Ukraine / Valeria Moroz 40 Understanding the Asia and the PacificBringing Living Heritage to Asia-Pacific Classrooms – Contextualizing School Activities with Living Heritage Supports Teachers, Improves Learning Outcomes, Safeguards Living Heritage / Duong Bich Hanh and Vanessa Achilles 44 GCED Youth Network Shapers for Today and Tomorrow’s Education – Youth Tackle Educational Topics to Further Develop, Improve, Transform / Diego Manrique 47 Letter TwoSupporting Global Citizenship Education in Kenya / Jane Nyaga 49 APCEIU in Action 
Addressing Hate Speech and Racial Discrimination through Education (SangSaeng no.57, 2021) Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: APCEIU Today, humanity is faced with various multifaceted challenges such as climate change, increasing inequality, hate speech and racial discrimination. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has crudely manifested those problems and further highlighted the acute need for concerted efforts to address them. In this context, SangSaeng No. 57 focuses on “Addressing Hate Speech and Racial Discrimination through Education” to provide readers with opportunities to reflect on these salient issues. Contents 03 Editor’s Note 04 Special ColumnFrom Hatred to Reconciliation - Learning from Rwanda / Freddy Mutanguha 08 FOCUS: Addressing Hate Speech and Racial Discrimination through Education08 Confronting Hate Speech - Thoughts, Challenges, Proposals from Educational Perspective / Gabriela Martini Armengol12 Missing Link in Global Citizenship Education – Taking into Account Identities, Alterities and Citizenships Hurt by Systemic and Chronic Racism / Gina Thesee16 Moving from Hate and Discrimination to Greater Humanity – Increasing Need for Empathy Education / Pat Dolan19 But What Can I Do? - Educational Responses to Hate Speech / Felisa Tibbitts 23 Best Practices23 Learning Democracy at Utoya - Young People’s Response to Hate and Extremism / Ingrid Aspelund26 Combatting Hate Speech – Experiences and Lessons from South Sudan / Marina Modi 29 Special Report29 Setting out Priorities for Addressing Hate Speech Through Educationt - Highlights of the Multi-Stakeholder Forum and Global Education Ministers Conference on Addressing Hate Speech through Education / UNESCO 32 Call for Global Action towards Transforming the World through Education - Highlights of the 5th UNESCO Forum on Transformative Education / APCEIU and UNESCO 35 Story TimeGrandfather’s Funeral / Sudipa Charkraverty 38 Peace in My MemoryPeace Turned into Pain / An anonymous contributor from Afghanistan 42 Understanding the Asia and the PacificMha Puja, Practicing Respect / Sharareh Bajracharya and Sanjeev Maharjan 45 Youth Network Youth Tackling Hate Speech and Racial Discrimination / GCED Youth Network Core Team 48 LetterReflections on Hate Speech and GCED / Sengpapah Holanouphab 50 APCEIU in Action 
GCED: Advocacy, Practice and Awareness Handbook for Teachers Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: APCEIU | UNESCO Bangkok Purpose and scope of the handbookThis handbook is the second in a series of GCED advocacy and awarenessraising publications. The first was the joint publication by APCEIU and UNESCO(2021) titled Global citizenship education: a policymaking awareness and advocacy handbook.This latest handbook aims to raise awareness among teachers in the Asia-Pacific region on GCED and to equip teachers with knowledge about GCED, its importance and how to teach it, using good practices, to enhance learners’ competences at the classroom level, for society’s overall benefit.Recognizing that education policies, strategies and practices in the Asia-Pacific region reflect GCED in diverse ways, this handbook also seeks to provide a common regional understanding of what GCED is. Who can benefit from this handbook?The major beneficiaries of this handbook are teachers, educators and learners. Through explaining what GCED is and its outcomes, this handbook will enable teachers and educators to develop a deeper understanding of the benefits that GCED brings to learners. This handbook will also help teachers to themselves cultivate the necessary values, knowledge, skills and attitudes, and make the required behavioural changes, as one must become a responsible global citizen first in order to empower others to do so.As a practical guide, this handbook also supports teachers to integrate GCED into their teaching. The handbook provides examples of good practices, compiled from the Asia-Pacific region, that teachers can easily adapt for use in their classrooms to boost GCED values, knowledge, skills, attitudes and behavioural changes, among learners of all ages. Resources listed in the annex provide teachers with additional support.Policy-makers and school leaders can also benefit from this handbook; it serves as an additional reference to Global citizenship education: a policymaking awareness and advocacy handbook (APCEIU and UNESCO, 2021); to assist them in understanding what support teachers need in delivering GCED. This guide can also provide insights on how to foster resilience and rebuild education systems so that they are better equipped to deal with future crises. 
Being and Becoming Global Citizens: Measuring Progress toward SDG 4.7 (Phase I: Monitoring teacher and school readiness to enact global citizenship in the Asia-Pacific region) Year of publication: 2023 Author: Rachel Parker | Jennie Chainey | Payal Goundar | Sarah Richardson | Anna Dabrowski | Amy Berry | Claire Scoular Corporate author: Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) | APCEIU Since 2022, APCEIU and the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) have conducted a study to identify enhanced tools and resources for schools and systems in the Asia-Pacific region to monitor and evaluate GCED in line with SDG 4.7.The Report of the Research for Phase 1 is available in three forms: Full report; Summary; and Policy Brief. 
[Summary] Being and Becoming Global Citizens: Measuring Progress toward SDG 4.7 (Phase I: Monitoring teacher and school readiness to enact global citizenship in the Asia-Pacific region) Year of publication: 2023 Author: Rachel Parker | Jennie Chainey | Payal Goundar | Sarah Richardson | Anna Dabrowski | Amy Berry | Claire Scoular Corporate author: Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) | APCEIU This is a summary report of the Being and Becoming Global Citizens: Measuring Progress toward SDG 4.7 (Phase I: Monitoring teacher and school readiness to enact global citizenship in the Asia-Pacific region), conducted by APCEIU and ACER in since 2022. 
[Policy Brief] Monitoring and Evaluating Global Citizenship Education in the Asia-Pacific Region Year of publication: 2023 Author: Payal Goundar | Rachel Parker Corporate author: Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) | APCEIU This is a policy brief version of the reserach report, Being and Becoming Global Citizens: Measuring Progress toward SDG 4.7 (Phase I: Monitoring teacher and school readiness to enact global citizenship in the Asia-Pacific region), conducted by APCEIU and ACER in since 2022. 
Global Citizenship Education: A Handbook for Parents, Community and Learners in Asia-Pacific Year of publication: 2023 Author: Darla K. Deardorff | Seek Ling Tan Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok | APCEIU This handbook aspires to engage and involve parents, caregivers and the community to join the mission of developing every learner into a global citizen. To achieve this, parents, caregivers and the community will need to be empowered with the necessary GCED knowledge and skills too. In this handbook, GCED related concepts are introduced, alongside adaptable step-by-step action plans and best practices collected across the Asia-Pacific region to support parents and the community to take action in developing GCED competences in learners. 
2021 Study on the Monitoring Framework of GCED in South Korea Year of publication: 2021 Author: Hwanbo Park | Daehoon Jho | Kyunghee Park | Sungho Park | Jeongmin Eom Corporate author: APCEIU The purpose of this study is to establish a feasible monitoring system for the implementation of Global Citizenship Education (GCED) in South Korea that can both align itself with the global indicator (SDG 4.7.1) and reflect the domestic context and feasibility. To this end, the study continues to examine the extent to which GCED is mainstreamed in education policies in Korea by utilizing the monitoring tool developed by the aforementioned 2020 study. In so doing, it aims to build sustaining and robust data in the area of GCED policies with the consistent monitoring tool developed. Second, the study explores enabling aspects as well as gaps between policies or programmes and how GCED is implemented on the ground by schools and teachers. Through this analysis, the study draws implications for further refining of the developed monitoring system. Third, the study surveys and analyzes existing monitoring tools developed by other fields and the data accumulated through those existing tools to assess learners' knowledge acquisition, values, skills and attitudes relevant to global citizenship competences, In so doing, it explores possibilities and makes recommendations for effectively monitoring learners’ competences by utilizing and modifying existing tools as well as developing new ones. 
21st Asia-Pacific Training Workshop on EIU GCED Mentorship Programme - Final Report Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: APCEIU This report summarizes 18 GCED projects implemented in the Asia-Pacific region by the alumni of APCEIU’s 21st Asia-Pacific Training Workshop on EIU/GCED (2022).The Mentorship Programme consisted of two tracks.1) Track A: Individual Mentorship with APCEIU’s expert groups (Concretizing the GCED project with guidance from mentors)2) Track B: Developing GCED Training Programme using Design Thinking Strategy with APCEIU & Habi Education LabAsia-Pacific Training Workshop on EIU/GCED (APTW) is APCEIU’s flagship TOT (Training of Trainers) programme for educators and teacher trainers in the Asia-Pacific region, which benefitted more than 600 educators over the last 22 years. Since 2021, it has been shifted to a comprehensive training programme composed of online training workshops, mentorship, and local project implementation to further empower participants to bring changes in their local communities.In 2022, marking its 21st turn, APTW was virtually held from 30 May to 7 June with 52 passionate educators from 19 UNESCO member states in the Asia-Pacific region. This year with the theme of ‘Preparing educators for a post-pandemic world: GCED as a key to change’, the Workshop provided opportunities to explore the timely issues and pedagogies to prepare educators for the post-pandemic world. 
Roundtable of the Group of Friends for Solidarity and Inclusion with GCED: "Art Education Fostering Global Citizenship" Year of publication: 2023 Author: Hyunmook Lim Corporate author: APCEIU This report shares the overview of the Roundtable of the Group of Friends for Solidarity and Inclusion with GCED: “Art Education Fostering Global Citizenship”, held on Friday, 16 June 2023. The event was co-organized by the Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Korea to UNESCO and the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) in partnership with the Group of Friends for Solidarity and Inclusion with GCED (Afghanistan, Armenia, Austria, Bangladesh, Canada, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Nigeria and Oman). This report shares the summary of the event, particularly the presentations on GCED activities through arts education by experts from Finland, Lebanon, the Republic of Korea and Nigeria to promote the values and initiatives of GCED through arts education.