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The Elusive and Exclusive Global Citizen Year of publication: 2015 Author: Jill Koyama Corporate author: Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) In this paper, the author interrogate the notion of global citizenship, both as an aspiration and an improbable practice, by situating it within contemporary understandings of citizenship and globalization.It is a conceptualization that suffers from the dangers inherent in the term “citizenship” and misconceptions of the terms “global,” and it is rooted in the West’s long engagement in normative undertakings in non-Western countries. The writer refute ideas of the autonomous and agentic global citizen. he encourage a rethinking of global citizenship and global citizenship education (GCE) and offer recommendations for redirecting attention to contemporary global stratifications and issues of human rights to address the issues of social justice and inequality that, due to the problematic definition of global citizenship, are currently inadequately covered in existing GCE curricula. 
Kindness: The Force That Will Help Us Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (The Blue Dot Issue 11, 2020) Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) In the eleventh issue of The Blue Dot, we focus on ‘Kindness’ – as the force that will help us achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, towards making the world more peaceful and sustainable – a better place to live in the future for our children. We hear from Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, Minister of Human Resource Development, Government of India on ‘The Need for Kindness and Compassion – Embodying the values of Mahatma Gandhi’, experts such as Zoran Josipovic on the neuroscience behind kindness; Michael Karlin and Brendran Ozawa-De Silve on the science and theory behind kindness, and from educators (Vicki Zakrzewski and John-Tyler Binfet) on how kindness can be practiced in our classrooms.Our cover story on ‘Kindness – the force to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals’ discusses the biology of kindness, how kindness can help us achieve the SDGs and Kindness and SDGs and the Youth. Further, we have a hand-picked collection of youth stories on kindness, extracted from the 7,300+ stories we have from 120 countries around the world as part of UNESCO MGIEP’s #KindnessMatters for the SDGs youth campaign. 
The war in our minds: is global citizenship the answer? (Blue Dot issue 1) Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) Feature Global Citizenship Education: A New Educational, Pedagogical and Political Narrative in the World System? (by Carlos A. Torres) In Pursuit of a Global Civics (by Hakan Altinay) Global Citizenship: Necessary and Possible (by Paul and Anne Ehrlich) Cover Story YOUth Speak for a better today and tomorrow (by Piyali Sarkar Debnath, UNESCO MGIEP) Essays Unlocking the Civic Sense of Young Minds (by Karthik Shankar) Shared Home, Shared Hopes and Shared Actions (by Trang T. Nguyen) Redesigning the Education System for Global Citizenship (by Ayodeji Ojo) Youth Voices Who is a global citizen? News What we have been up to UNESCO MGIEP Crossword Event Calendar 
Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development: a joint initiative by UNESCO and the government of India Year of publication: 2013 Corporate author: Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Government of India are embarking on a major new partnership to create the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development. Through research and capacity-building, the Institute aims to develop and promote new approaches to education, empowering learners to transform their lives and build a more peaceful and sustainable world. Based in New Delhi, this will be the first UNESCO specialized education Institute in India, and the first in the Asia-Pacific region. It is particularly fitting that the Institute is hosted by India, the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi and a country that has made a significant commitment to education over the past decades. Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development: UNESCO's first category 1 Institute in the Asia-Pacific Year of publication: 2014 Corporate author: Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) The Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) is UNESCO’s first Category 1 Institute in the Asia-Pacific. The Institute will be a key strategic player in UNESCO’s work towards quality Education for All and the transformative shift envisioned for the Post 2015 agenda. Established in cooperation with the Government of India, MGIEP has been created to play a leading role in research, knowledge sharing, capacity building and policy formulation in the area of peace and sustainability education. The Institute aims to promote, assimilate and generate high quality research to lead the intellectual and policy discourse for education and global citizenship in the region. It was named after Mahatma Gandhi, as a tribute to his ideas of non-violence and sustainable living. The President of India and the Director-General of UNESCO jointly announced the establishment of the Institute in November, 2012. It is located in New Delhi. 
[Video] Transforming Education for Humanity Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) UNESCO MGIEP focuses on achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goal 4.7 towards education for building peaceful and sustainable societies across the world by developing programmes that promote socio-emotional learning, innovate digital pedagogies and empower the youth. Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development: UNESCO's first category 1 institute in the Asia-Pacific brochure Year of publication: 2014 Corporate author: Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) The Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) is UNESCO’s first Category 1 Institute in the Asia-Pacific. The Institute will be a key strategic player in UNESCO’s work towards quality Education for All and the transformative shift envisioned for the Post 2015 agenda. Established in cooperation with the Government of India, MGIEP has been created to play a leading role in research, knowledge sharing, capacity building and policy formulation in the area of peace and sustainability education. The Institute aims to promote, assimilate and generate high quality research to lead the intellectual and policy discourse for education and global citizenship in the region. It was named after Mahatma Gandhi, as a tribute to his ideas of non-violence and sustainable living. The President of India and the Director-General of UNESCO jointly announced the establishment of the Institute in November, 2012. It is located in New Delhi. 
Social and emotional learning (The Blue Dot Issue 10, 2019) Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) The tenth edition of The Blue DOT focuses on different aspects of social and emotional learning, including the neurosciences, teacher training, frameworks such as CASEL and SEE Learning and systemic SEL, amongst others. The issue includes a Foreword by Dr. Richard Davidson, William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Founder and Director of the Center for Healthy Minds, and our Cover Story that focuses on how SEL can help to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Additionally, it features interviews and opinions from some of the world’s most prominent SEL experts on the importance of integrating SEL in our education systems. Amongst various experts, we hear from Kimberly Schonert-Reichl on her journey in SEL, Robert W. Roeser on “Educating the Head, the Heart and the Hand in the 21st Century” as well as Roger P. Weissberg and Joseph L. Mahoney on “What is Systemic Social and Emotional Learning and Why Does it Matter”? Further, a featured article with responses to a survey by teachers from 4 countries (Bhutan, India, South Africa and Sri Lanka), following the launch of the Institute’s SEL modules on Global Citizenship in a workshop conducted in New Delhi, India in April 2019 is presented. The modules have been rendered on MGIEP’s in house Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven digital platform now called FramerSpace (formerly CHI) and allow the student to have an interactive, instantaneous feedback and immersive experience while addressing contemporary issues such as migration, nationalism and violence. 
Policy brief: rethinking schooling for the 21st century Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) Analysing how far the ideals of SDG 4.7 are embodied in policies and curricula across 22 Asian countries, this study establishes benchmarks against which future progress can be assessed. It also argues forcefully that we must redefine the purposes of schooling, addressing the fundamental challenges to efforts to promote peace, sustainability and global citizenship through education. 
Can Education Contribute to Peace? Year of publication: 2018 Author: Krishna Kumar Corporate author: Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) The paper questions the common assumption that education promotes peace. By referring to pedagogic routines and the political culture of nationalism, the paper indicates the nature of reforms education requires for contributing to peace. The basis of discussion is the author’s own study of the role played by school education, specifically through the teaching of history, in maintaining mutual hostility between India and Pakistan. The paper is divided into four sections.The first section summarizes conceptual issues raised by philosophers and educators in the context of schooling and peace. Section II introduces the author’s Indo-Pak study in relation to the challenges that nationalism, religion and culture place before education. Section III deals with regimentation as an integral aspect of modern schooling and its implications for the role expected from education in promoting peace.The final section discusses the demands and contradictions education faces under the increasing dominance of the human capital ideology. The paper concludes by highlighting the importance of humanist goals and processes in education for serving the cause of peace.