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Global Citizenship Education: A Policymaking Awareness and Advocacy Handbook Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: APCEIU | UNESCO Bangkok GCED is critical for learners and countries to reach the SDG-Education 2030 targets. Many countries have GCED elements, either explicitly or implicitly, within their education policies. However, to fully realize SDG target 4.7 and to enable our learners to achieve the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes needed to succeed in an ever-changing and adaptable world, countries may need to explicitly build these components directly into various education policies. This policymakers’ handbook provides some guidance on how policymakers can develop and adapt local level policies in order to strengthen GCED learning. 
The Impact of COVID-19 on Early Childhood Education in the Asia-Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights From the Results of Rapid Regional Personnel Survey Year of publication: 2021 Author: Yoshie Kaga | Kyungah Bang Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok Declared a global pandemic on 11 March 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO), COVID-19 has had far-reaching impacts on every facet of life around the world, exacerbating pre-existing inequalities and negatively impacting on vulnerable and disadvantaged populations the most. Learning continuity has been disrupted by school closures, generating an unprecedented situation worldwide. According to UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) data collated in July 2020, over 18.6 million children in pre-primary education in forty-eight Sub-Saharan African countries and 4.4 million pre-primary teachers – eighty- five per cent of whom were women – in twenty-four countries in the Asia-Pacific region were affected by school or centre closures. Recognizing the possible severe and detrimental impact that COVID-19 might have on ECE personnel and their practices, UNESCO Bangkok and Dakar teamed up with several partners to undertake regional surveys in the Asia-Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa from April to July 2020. Based on the regional surveys, this report features eight key findings and three key messages to better understand ECE personnel’s needs and to identify possible responses to support them. 
Situation Assessment: Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Digital Spaces – Opportunities for Formal Education in Thailand Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok This rapid situation assessment of comprehensive sexuality education across digital spaces in Thailand aims to understand the opportunities for using digital sexuality education spaces and content in formal education. The report analyses original data drawn from young people, teachers, education officials, and representatives of organizations engaged in young people’s health and well-being, and consolidates these with learnings from earlier studies both locally and further afield. It offers recommendations for capacity-building and other efforts to expand access to innovative teaching and learning on sexuality education by leveraging digital spaces both in and out of the classroom. 
2023 Asia-Pacific Regional Global Citizenship Education (GCED): Network Activities Summary Report Year of publication: 2023 Author: Seek Ling Tan Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok This is a summary report from the Global Citizenship Education (GCED) network activities in Asia-Pacific in 2023. The Asia-Pacific Regional Global Citizenship Education Network, spearheaded by UNESCO Bangkok and the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU), has illuminated the path to empower learners to become global citizens since its inception in 2018. In 2023, their journey was punctuated by significant milestones and a revitalized commitment to propel GCED across the region. This commitment is particularly evident in the key priority areas of advocacy, capacity building, learning/teaching materials, policy and research and the synergizing of regional collaboration towards Education 2030. 
Supporting Schools’ and Teachers’ Use of Assessment to Inform Learning of All Students (Using Assessment Data in Education Policy and Practice: Examples from the Asia-Pacific issue 5, December 2023) Year of publication: 2023 Author: Ursula Schwantner | Soumaya Maghnouj Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok | Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) In more than half of Asia-Pacific countries, a majority of learners in primary and secondary education do not have the required foundational skills. The fifth issue of the topical case studies series 'Using Assessment Data in Education Policy And Practice: Examples From The Asia-Pacific' under the Network for Education Quality Monitoring in Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP), documents four promising practices from countries in the Asia-Pacific region on how education systems can better support teachers and schools in effectively integrating assessment practices in the teaching and learning process. The goal of this support is to identify and meaningfully address every learner’s needs, so that every learner can learn successfully. The case studies look at a variety of levers that promote a better use of assessment for learning such as how to develop teachers’ assessment literacy and capacity to design, implement and use assessment to inform their classroom teaching and learning; how to improve the use of standardized assessment data to inform teaching and learning and how to rethink the organization of instruction to address the needs of all learners. 
Together for Peace Silent Manga Catalogue: Teacher's Companion Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok Silent Manga refers to manga stories told entirely through illustrations without the use of dialogue. This Silent Manga Catalogue Teacher's Companion is intended for use by teachers (or parents) together with Silent Manga Catalogue, a compilation of Silent Manga entries selected from SILENT MANGA AUDITION® Round 13, which was based on the theme ‘Together for Peace’. The manga stories showcase different aspects of peace as envisioned by artists around the world, and based on various related topics such as out-of-school children, lifelong learning, anti-bullying, conflict, youth, learning to live together, refugees and shared histories. Through the power of Silent Manga, teachers can use such manga stories to spark a thought-provoking discussion among younger generations that represent the chief architects of world peace not only in our own times, but in the years to come. 
Happy Schools Guide and Toolkit: A Resource for Happiness, Learners’ Well-Being and Social and Emotional Learning Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: UNESCO | UNESCO Bangkok The Happy Schools Guide and Toolkit is designed to support teachers and school leaders in primary and secondary schools across the Asia-Pacific region, in thinking about how they can create their own Happy School. It has therefore drawn from aspects of the Happy Schools Framework, which can be most readily addressed at the school level. While the Happy Schools Guide is targeted towards school leaders and teachers at the school level of administration and pedagogy development, the Happy Schools Toolkit is conceived for teachers at the classroom level. 
Asia-Pacific Regional Synthesis: Climate Change, Displacement and the Right to Education Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO | United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) | UNESCO Bangkok In 2020, 30.7 million people were displaced by natural disasters – disasters which the scientific community acknowledges are more frequent and more intense as a result of climate change. In Asia and the Pacific alone, 21.3 million people were displaced, making it the region the most impacted by national disasters and climate change in the world. Therefore, country case studies were carried out in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Tuvalu, and Viet Nam to examine not only specific vulnerabilities to climate change and related mobility, but also the impacts of climate change on the right to education in Asia and the Pacific. These case studies show that climate change directly threatens education – through the destruction of schools and property – but also indirectly puts education in peril by forcing people to cross borders, ensuring neither legal residency nor the right to education. This regional synthesis report aims to guide policy-makers through providing operational policy recommendations on how to ensure education is protected in Asia and the Pacific in the face of climate change and displacement from a human rights-based approach. The report is one of four being developed and will contribute to the global initiative on climate change and displacement and the right to education – launched by UNESCO in 2020 – by informing the development of a Global Report with global policyrecommendations.How climate change impacts the right to education in Asia and the Pacific21.3million displacementstook place in Asia and the Pacific 
Learner-Centred Teaching in Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Perspectives and Reviews of Six Asia-Pacific Countries Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok Learner-centred Teaching in Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Perspectives and Reviews of Six Asia-Pacific Countries A learner-centred approach to teaching in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is based on learner engagement, autonomy and outcome-based activities to support professional development. This report analyses the status of learner-centred TVET teaching in six selected countries across Asia and the Pacific, including China, Republic of Korea, Samoa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Uzbekistan. The countries were selected because of their geographic diversity, access to national experts, and potential around learner-centred TVET.The first part of the study is a review of the theoretical background on the learner-centred approach and TVET teaching with an international scope. A total of 25 indicators were used to assess three components of TVET teaching in the region. The analysis includes 17 examples corresponding to the selected indicators. The findings showcase lessons learned and recommendations for countries to self-assess their TVET teaching strategies. These examples will help to inform future projects and capacity building in each sub-region of Asia-Pacific.As a result, seven proposals are identified and discussed to promote the development of learner-centred TVET teaching in the region. These proposals include: 1) supporting national reform of the pedagogy based on the results of pilot projects; 2) increasing two-way communication between students and teachers; 3) producing learning materials adapted to learner-centred methods; 4) using technology in the learning process; 5) implementing competency-based learning to support the learner-centred pedagogy; 6) integrating transversal and core skills; and 7) developing teachers’ capacities by employing a learner-centred approach. These proposals (on reform, teaching method, use of materials, etc.) also address gender dimensions throughout the planning, implementation and review process. Conclusions from the study provide lessons learned as well as proposals for further research and implementation of learner-centred TVET teaching in Asia-Pacific. 
Leave No One Behind: Equity and Inclusion in Education at UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office in Bangkok (UNESCO Bangkok) Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok Equity and inclusion in education ensures a process intended to respond to students’ diversity by increasing their participation and reducing exclusion within and from education.