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Including Transformative Education in Pre-service Teacher Training: A Guide for Universities and Teacher Training Institutions in the Arab Region Year of publication: 2024 Author: Khalaf Al Abri | Marco Pasqualini Corporate author: UNESCO Beirut Transformative Education (TE), which includes concepts such as Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), is an essential approach to provide learners with the tools to act for more just, peaceful and sustainable societies. Between 2021 and 2023, the experts of the UNESCO Arab Transformative Education Network identified the creation of a course on Transformative Education for teachers’ pre-service training as a key step to (i) provide teachers with the needed skills to promote Transformative Education as part of the national curriculum as well as though their daily teaching practices, and (ii) to support the reform of pedagogies more broadly, by making them more interactive and focused on critical thinking, and thus positively contributing to improving learners’ overall learning outcomes. This guidance document is addressed to all entities in charge of pre-service teacher training (e.g. departments of education within higher education institutions and teacher training institutions) in the Arab region interested in including Transformative Education as part of their programmes. The guidance document particularly supports faculty deans and academia in defining the scope and the key parameters to consider while developing a course on Transformative Education, including defining course objectives, format, content, and pedagogy, as well as choosing the right facilitator(s) to deliver the course. The document also provides useful references to other guides and tools which can further support the reflections around Transformative Education and how it can be concretely applied and promoted at the higher education level. 
The Course: Citizenship Education Year of publication: 2021 Author: Bader Abdul Qadir Corporate author: University of Jordan This file is a blueprint for the Citizenship education course at the University of Jordan. The course outline shows the course objectives, plan, and topics covered. At the end of the chart is a list of references. 
An Exploration of Citizenship Identity and Civic Awareness: An Analysis of Moral and Civic Education Primary School Textbooks in Macao (Educational Journal ; Vol.48, No.1) Year of publication: 2018 Author: 黄素君 | 黄乐源 | 谢均才 This article aims to explore the discourses of citizenship identity and civic awareness embedded in the series of Moral and Civic Education primary school textbooks in Macao. The study reveals that: (a) the personal and collective level of civic awareness is the dominant discourse in the textbooks; (b) the textbooks give an important weighting to the cultivation of the character of citizens as well as the importance of individual self-discipline and collective value; (c) patriotic education and civic education intertwine in order to cultivate a patriotic Chinese citizen; (d) “respect” is the key concept in cultivating the global citizen in the textbooks. The citizenship presented in the textbooks emphasizes the formation of national identity, and a form of responsibility-driven civic awareness. In essence, the cultivation of citizenship identity and civic awareness still demonstrates a passive and self-disciplined view. This article suggests that curriculum design should emphasize on the cultivation of fairness and critical thinking in order to fulfill a comprehensive mission and function of citizenship education. 
Ethical Civilization and the Cultivation of Citizens in the Perspective of Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit (Ethical Education Research; No.2, 2019) Year of publication: 2019 Author: 吕寿伟 The process of education is to make children grow from natural individuals to national citizens. Education constantly improves individual upbring through the removal of children’s nature and the transformation of their individuality, and ultimately makes the inner change of children’s spirit. Ethical entities are the environment for children to be nurtured, and families, schools and states are the realistic forms. Family is the natural ethical entity of education, which takes love as the basic spiritual rule. In family, children gradually transform the family’s ethical spirit into the habitual intention of self. But the selfish nature of the family cannot create a modern citizen with a public spirit. The school, as an educational community, is an ethical combination which consists of children from different families. “Emancipation”，which is the spiritual rule of school education, creates educated individuals. But school cannot shape the real citizens, which can only be formed in the ethical entity of the country. The state, as a concept, embodies the common will of the public. The purpose of the state is to complete the shaping of the national citizens through the promotion of children' upbring. 
Bank of Digital Task Sheets Corporate author: Council of Europe Around forty sheets of tasks anchored in real life and reflective tasks are available. The proposed tasks implement the didactic framework that promotes a socio-interactional approach and extends the usual typology of tasks with tasks anchored in real life.These tasks, carried out on online participatory sites, allow the people who carry them out to experience both authentic (inter)actions and digital citizenship.Alongside these tasks, reflective tasks invite learners to reflect on online practices and in particular on their own uses of digital technology. They are to be adapted according to the contexts of use and provide examples of the implementation of the approach defined in the Didactic Framework. 
Citizens as Users of Languages and Digital Technology Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) | Council of Europe A recent meta-analysis of the literature portrays male and female citizens who are users of languages and digital technologies. This helps to understand the goals of an education aimed at developing male and female citizens capable of using digital technology in a competent, informed, safe, responsible, ethical, and critical manner. 
Developing Digital Citizenship and Language Competences Year of publication: 2023 Author: Christian Ollivier | Catherine Jeanneau Corporate author: European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) The profile of citizens who use languages and digital tools helps to define the objectives to pursue in language training that incorporates digital citizenship education. The Didactic Framework outlines a socio-interactional approach that enables this integration. 
From Civic Education to Citizenship Education: Citizenship Values in the Geography Curriculum; The Problem of Understanding and Downloading (International Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies; vol. 6, no. 17) Year of publication: 2022 Author: Al-Hassan Farkakoum Corporate author: Democratic Arab Center This paper aims to contribute to revealing the extent to which the values of citizenship and human rights are present in the social studies lesson in Moroccan public schools, specifically in the middle school education curriculum. The inclusion of human rights values at this level raises several problems that lead to two complementary trends: The first is related to the didactics of human rights and citizenship education, and the second trend is related to the extent of the learner’s ability to acquire and represent the values of citizenship and transform them into automatic daily behaviors and practices in the school environment and then after that in daily public life and private transactions. 
Civil Society and Non-Governmental Organizations in the Republic of Kazakhstan Year of publication: 2021 Author: Madiyar Kozhakhmet | Evgeny Zhovtis | Dosym Satpayev | Roman Podoprigora | Natalia Yantsen | Kaisha Atakhanova | Vadim Nee | Banu Nurgaziyeva | Zulfiya Baysakova | Shakhnoza Khasanova | Saken Zhanazarov | Diana Okremova | Gulmira Birzhanova | Lyazzat Kaltayeva | Saniya Arapova | Sergey Gulyaev | Sergey Khudyakov | Vitaly Kulik Corporate author: Civil Society Development Association (ARGO) This book is a collection of articles on a wide range of issues concerning CSOs and civil society development in Kazakhstan. The publication is designed for nongovernmental organizations, government agencies, Academia includes students and general readers. 
Fighting Against Disinformation and Hate Speech Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: Association of Guinean Bloggers (ABLOGUI) This online MOOC is completely free. It is offered by the Association des Blogueurs de Guinée (ABLOGUI) through the IMPACT project (Implication of Digital Media in the Active Prevention of Conflicts and Tensions). It aims at raising awareness among young Guineans of the dangers of misinformation and hate speech, and to equip them with the knowledge and skills they need to combat information disorder in a digital world.