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Education in a Post-COVID World: Additional Considerations (In-Progress Reflection; No.43, 2021) Year of publication: 2021 Author: Renato Opertti Corporate author: UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE) This discussion document analyses some implications of the ideas proposed in the seminal UNESCO document “Education in a post-COVID world: Nine ideas for public action” (2020). Based on the work of the International Commission on the Futures of Education, the documents’ contributors included prominent figures with a wide range of professional and policy experience who hail from various regions of the world. The set of nine interconnected ideas illuminates the way forward toward the transformation of education and education systems and a reimagined future seen through a progressive lens. On one hand, it reaffirms basic principles, understandings, and commitments with regard to education as a global common good and universal human right; it also articulates the need to both reinvent multilateralism for a new global order and, crucially, to mobilize ideas and funding for transforming education. On the other hand, the document advocates for a comprehensive educational agenda, including the following critical issues: (i) visualizing educators as decision-makers in educational systems; (ii) appreciating students as active actors with rights; (iii) recognizing the value and specificity of the school space; (iv) addressing the dilemmas around technology’s ability to serve as an equalizer of opportunities; and (v) revisiting educational content for the sustainability of younger generations. 
Global Citizenship Education Tools and Piloting Experiences of Four Countries: Cambodia, Colombia, Mongolia and Uganda Year of publication: 2018 Author: Opertti Renato | Hyekyung Kang | Magni Giorgia Corporate author: UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE) | APCEIU This report analyses the progresses made by Cambodia, Colombia, Mongolia and Uganda in the development and piloting of GCED tools, designed within the framework of UNESCO Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU)’s and International Bureau of Education (IBE)’s three-year cooperation project, “Global Citizenship Education Curriculum Development and Integration”. Based on the needs identified through the situational analyses carried out during Phase I, the four countries have developed tailored tools to mainstream GCED in their own context and piloted them during Phase II. Through an in-depth analysis of the tools as well as of their piloting processes, this report aims at understanding the extent to which GCED concepts are embedded and integrated into these tools and the way in which these tools contribute to the overall GCED teaching and learning practices in each context. What results from the findings is that the four countries, despite some setbacks due mainly to the strict timeline, have made significant progress in developing innovative strategies to integrate GCED principles into their education policies and practices. Finally, this report concludes with the suggestions for these tools to be effectively implemented during Phase III, particularly for this project, and for any further initiative around GCED areas. 
Fifteen Analytical Keys to Strengthen the Education 2030 Agenda Year of publication: 2017 Author: Renato Opertti Corporate author: UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE) The joint review of the goals of the Education 2030 agenda and global change accentuated by the emergence of a fourth industrial revolution highlights the need to rethink the concepts that have influenced education over the past forty years. This necessity is accompanied by a major challenge: that of giving a new meaning to these concepts, in the same way education systems, in a transformational and united perspective. The present document proposes a global reflection based on fifteen keys of analysis, in order to help define a vision of education and learning that is in line with the Education 2030 agenda examines the following aspects: 1) education as a reflection of the type of society targeted; 2) the state as guarantor of the right to education; 3) education as a cultural, social and economic ; 4) the characteristics and roles of education systems; 5) learning throughout life long; 6) education according to age groups; 7) inclusion as a basis for education systems; 8) education for global and local citizenship; 9) education for sustainable development ; 10) STEM training to build sustainable societies; 11) the relevance of the gender issue at a time of the democratization of society and education; 12) computer programming as a new challenge in the teaching of ICT; 13) the evolution of the relationship between training and work; 14) the trio formed by curricula, educational establishments and pedagogy; and 15) teachers as decision-makers. 
Strengthening Social and Emotional Learning in Hybrid Modes of Education: Building Support for Students, Teachers, Schools and Families Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE) This Discussion Paper focuses on the essential role of social and emotional learning (SEL) in the global movement to transform education and amplify its social, economic, environmental and personal impacts in a rapidly changing world. It explores how the mainstreaming of SEL into educational policies and practices can contribute to realizing future visions of education that are flexible, reflective, innovative, and impactful. Specifically, the Paper focuses on six topics that, as a whole, reflect global experiences in integrating and implementing SEL in its various forms both during and in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Its main objective is to animate discussion on how to integrate a SEL dimension in hybrid modes of teaching and learning. This introductory overview presents the overall purpose and scope of the Paper, defines its underlying concepts and introduces the topics brought to this forum through the lenses of a diverse group of educators from Africa, the Arab States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. 
Research Report: A Comparative Study on Hybrid Learning in Schools Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE) During the COVID-19 lockdown, policymakers and educators faced an unprecedented challenge disrupting all levels of education. The initial optimism about replacing physical classes with virtual lessons diminished as complex interconnected issues emerged. To address the need for continuous and sustainable learning, school systems implemented variations of hybrid learning during the pandemic, seeking to integrate physical and virtual classes. These approaches prompted this comparative study led by UNESCO-IBE. The initial phase of this study involved collecting and analysing data on hybrid strategies from six countries. The research aimed to examine factors influencing hybrid learning implementation during the lockdown, with a subsequent focus on developing and validating a practical Hybrid Learning Framework for Schools. The cross-case analysis was designed not to rank or compare, but to understand and connect different scenarios and contexts. Phase I focuses on current hybrid learning practices and influencing factors, while Phases II and III will concentrate on using the information gathered to create and validate a Hybrid Learning Framework for Schools. Aligned with UNESCO-IBE’s overarching vision of a comprehensive, personalized, and democratized curriculum accessible to all, hybrid learning facilitates inclusive education across diverse regions, overcoming geographical and temporal limitations. The approach aims to unlock the unique potential of every learner, fostering a more flexible educational environment. 
Teaching Students How to Learn: Setting the Stage for Lifelong Learning (Educational Practices Series No. 33) Year of publication: 2021 Author: Stella Vosniadou | Michael J. Lawson | Helen Stephenson | Erin Bodner Corporate author: UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE) | International Academy of Education In this Teaching How to Learn booklet, teachers can find information about some of the cognitive, metacognitive, emotional, and motivational capabilities that characterise self-regulated learners, and some of the actions that teachers can take to promote self-regulated learning in their students. These include giving students time to engage in constructive tasks independently or in collaboration with their peers and providing them with the knowledge and strategies that they can use to manage their learning and control their motivation and emotions while they complete these tasks successfully. 
Educating Students to Improve the World Year of publication: 2021 Author: Fernando Reimers Corporate author: UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE) This book highlights the key role of global citizenship education to prepare learners for a rapidly changing world. In a probing and visionary analysis of the field of global education Fernando Reimers explains how to lead the transformation of schools and school systems in order to more effectively prepare students to address today’s most urgent challenges and to invent a better future. It discusses several global citizenship curricula that have been adopted by schools and school networks, and ties them into an approach to lead school change into the uncharted territory of the future. 
Curriculum in Transformation Mode: Rethinking Curriculum for the Transformation of Education and Education Systems Year of publication: 2023 Author: Renato Opertti Corporate author: UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE) Through these pages, Renato Opertti shares a series of reflections that invite us to revisit the curriculum as an opportunity and lever for societies to express their visions and aspirations. Curriculum can serve to position education as the pillar of a renewed social contract grounded on the welfare of all learners as persons and supporting societies and communities give effect to sustainable and better futures for the younger generations. To do so, we need to re-conceptualize curriculum at large: from a mere specification of frequently fragmented learning contents to its understanding as both a process and product of public policy developments in which diversity of stakeholders own and take responsibility for education as a global common good. Curriculum and pedagogy, by going hand-inhand, and supported by effective teaching, learning and assessment processes, can play a key role in fulfilling the right to education for every learner equally, according to their own individual needs. Key ideas in this book help us to rethink curriculum with future-oriented approaches, entailing a stronger involvement of younger generations in the decision-making process and a careful attention to vulnerability and disadvantaged groups. A curriculum that embraces individuality and diversity within collaborative and caring learning settings, nurtures freedom and autonomous thinking, connects meaningfully the global and the local, and assumes the hybridization of education. The book also delves into perspectives for educational transformation prioritizing the development of learners’ foundational and transformative competencies as the barometer of a progressive curriculum. Crucially, this entails rethinking the mindsets and practices of education systems in light of the interconnected challenges posed by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, post COVID-19, generative AI and the sustainability of the planet and the world. 
Global Citizenship Concepts in the Curricula of Four Countries Year of publication: 2017 Author: Natalie Browes Corporate author: UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE) | APCEIU This report details the presence of Global Citizenship Education (GCED) concepts in the education systems of four countries: Cambodia, Colombia, Mongolia and Uganda. It highlights the main findings of eight reports: four expert reports, which predominately analyse curriculum content, and four situational analysis reports, which take a broader view and detail some of the country-specific challenges and opportunities with regard to GCED. Findings reveal the presence of GCED concepts across the curricula of the four countries. In addition to cognitive content related to GCED, competency-based content is also found present within the curricula of these countries. However, the majority of this content can only be indirectly linked to GCED, and it is better interpreted as part of the more traditional civics or citizenship education approach. As such, it generally lacks a global perspective and does not engage with all key themes of GCED. Furthermore, this content is often concentrated at the lower and upper secondary levels, instead of being equally distributed across all grade levels. This is particularly true in the case of behaviour-based competencies. Findings also reveal challenges beyond the curriculum. These include lack of teacher training and lack of support to implement GCED, which are concerns expressed by stakeholders in all four countries. A lack of GCED content in textbooks and lack of supplementary materials were also found to be issues. The report concludes with recommendations regarding the effective implementation of GCED within curricula. Among others, the report suggests the transversal integration of GCED - across the curriculum at all grade levels, while at the same time, actors from all levels of the education system, ranging from central government to teachers, should be engaged to ensure the use of complementary learning materials, pedagogies and assessment techniques. 
Preparing teachers for inclusive education in Latin America (Prospect: quarterly review of comparative education) Year of publication: 2011 Author: Denise Vaillant Corporate author: UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE) This article analyzes the current challenges facing inclusive education in Latin America and explores some possible solutions. The author suggests that teachers play a key role in providing education that is inclusive for all. In Latin America, today, however, inclusive education often does not respond to the needs of children and young people, and teachers often finish their professional training without acquiring the skills they need to work with children and young people living in difficult circumstances. Teachers also need incentives to work in remote or difficult geographical areas, and they benefit from national efforts to improve their status, including awards for innovative work. Much remains to be done, but the training of teachers for a more inclusive education system is gradually being incorporated as part of the educational policy agenda in Latin America.