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Segundo compendio de prácticas ejemplares en materia de educación para el desarrollo sostenible Year of publication: 2009 Corporate author: UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet) This second collection of ASPnet good practices for quality education takes stock of some of the contributions being made by UNESCO Associated Schools in support of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD). Second recueil de bonnes pratiques: l'éducation pour le développement durable Year of publication: 2009 Corporate author: UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet) This second collection of ASPnet good practices for quality education takes stock of some of the contributions being made by UNESCO Associated Schools in support of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD). Second collection of good practices: education for sustainable development Year of publication: 2009 Corporate author: UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet) This second collection of ASPnet good practices for quality education takes stock of some of the contributions being made by UNESCO Associated Schools in support of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD). 
Global Security, Religion and Education Development: a Crisis for the Field of Comparative Education? Year of publication: 2011 Author: Yusuf Sayed | Lynn Davies | Mike Hardy | Abbas Madandar Arani | Lida Kakia | Masooda Bano Corporate author: Taylor & Francis Building common ground on shared values should be a high priority for a diverse and devout society in an era of religious conflict. Otherwise we might fall into the equally false and far more dangerous illusion that we agree on nothing at all – and perhaps we tend to assume that education helps to do this, which is not necessarily the case. There is a greater concern that education is not just failing to step up effectively to the task of contesting undifferentiated and negative views of religions, but that it might not always be a force for good at all. It may in some cases help reinforce difference and create the conditions for conflict.The relationship, therefore, between religious difference, security and the assumed supportive role of education is far from a simple one. Global security, religion and education development: a crisis for the field of comparative education? Year of publication: 2011 Author: Yusuf Sayed | Lynn Davies | Mike Hardy | Abbas Madandar Arani | Lida Kakia | Masooda Bano Corporate author: Taylor & Francis Partager des valeurs communes devrait être une priorité absolue dans une société diversifiée et dévote en cette période de conflits religieux. Autrement, on pourrait tomber dans l’illusion, fausse et dangereuse, que nous sommes d’accord en rien - et on pense, probablement que l'éducation contribue à cet état de choses, alors que ce n’est pas forcément le cas. On est de plus en plus préoccupé par la question suivante : celle de considérer que non seulement l'éducation échoue quand il s’agit de contester d’une manière solide et efficace les points de vues non nuancés et négatifs en matière de religions, mais aussi que l’éducation n’est finalement pas une bonne chose. Dans certains cas, elle peut contribuer à renforcer la différence et créer les conditions d'un conflit. La relation, donc, entre la différence religieuse, la sécurité et le rôle présumé de soutien de l'éducation est loin d'être simple. المجموعة الثانية من الممارسات الجيدة في مجال التعليم من أجل التنمية المستدامة Year of publication: 2009 Corporate author: UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet) This second collection of ASPnet good practices for quality education takes stock of some of the contributions being made by UNESCO Associated Schools in support of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD). Country reports on education for sustainable development: centred on the five cluster countries of UNESCO office, Jakarta Year of publication: 2011 Author: Meeyoung Choi | Robert J. Didham Corporate author: UNESCO Jakarta As the cluster office, UNESCO Office, Jakarta covers the implementation of all major programmes and mandates by UNESCO in these five countries as well as disseminates and shares information and knowledge in the fields of education, science, culture and communication in the Asia and Pacific region. Rapports nationaux sur l'éducation au développement durable: axés sur les cinq pays du bureau de l'UNESCO à Jakarta Year of publication: 2011 Author: Meeyoung Choi | Robert J. Didham Corporate author: UNESCO Jakarta Le bureau de l'UNESCO à Jakarta couvre la mise en œuvre de tous les grands programmes et mandats de l'UNESCO dans ces cinq pays et diffuse et partage des informations et des connaissances dans les domaines de l'éducation, de la science, de la culture et de la communication dans la région de l'Asie et du Pacifique. 
Learning to live together Year of publication: 2014 Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok The importance of LTLT has increased in recent years. Indeed, relevant competencies appear to be gaining focus in international frameworks and educational initiatives across countries. This is all the more necessary as Voogt and Roblin (2012) argue, given the demands of our increasingly knowledge-based society in which “ideas and knowledge function as commodities” (p. 299 –300) and to which effective social and emotional skills are critical. It is perhaps all the more critical given the multivariate global challenges in the 21st Century and the need for unified global commitment to effectively combat these challenges. In this context, the significance of LTLT is reflected in both the rise of and growing interest in Global Citizenship Education (GCE), Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), Education for International Understanding (EIU) as well as peace and human rights education. The UN Secretary-General’s Global Education First Initiative, which lists ‘Fostering Global Citizenship’ as one of its three global priorities, also implicitly recognizes the significance of LTLT as a precursor to the building of a more peaceful society, one in which discrimination is intolerable and common challenges such as climate change and abject poverty are tackled together.Yet despite the significance of LTLT in the 21st Century, and despite numerous international initiatives to foster LTLT competencies, there is a large gap of evidence identifying how this supposition is translated into effective policy and curricula, and eventually into the reality of schools, teachers and learners. This report is a response to this gap, and attempts to understand how ten selected countries in the Asia-Pacific region – Afghanistan, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, The Philippines, Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka and Thailand – have reflected and integrated LTLT into their education policies and initiatives. This variety of countries aims to reflect their diverse experiences in terms of reflecting LTLT through their education systems. By exploring a number of areas, namely policy, curricula, teachers and assessment, this study aims to identify what has so far been achieved in education systems of the Asia-Pacific region in the area of LTLT.This report is therefore targeted predominantly at education policy makers, researchers, academics as well as education practitioners of the Asia-Pacific region. Given its connection to Global Citizenship Education and other relevant international initiatives around sustainability and peace education, this report is also relevant to UNESCO’s partner organizations and the broader educational development community.This report will first present the research framework for the study, before exploring the social and economic contexts in the ten selected countries and wider regional factors in the Asia-Pacific in relation to global challenges in Chapter Two. Chapter Three will then examine national policy frameworks, including the vision of those policies in defining LTLT in education. Chapter Four focuses on the national curriculum in selected countries and the extent to which they incorporate learning objectives, subjects, and extra-curricular activities reflecting the concept of LTLT and related skills and competencies. In Chapter Five, teaching practices are examined, including the role of teachers and teacher education, as well as teaching methods and application of media and information literacy (MIL) in the classroom. Chapter Six then looks at assessment, and how far countries have attempted to develop assessment frameworks that measure the skills and competencies related to LTLT. Finally, Chapter Seven provides reflections and conclusions based on the main findings of the study, while also identifying trends across policy domains, shortcomings and some policy considerations. 
Comparative study of textbooks: working document in the framework of the Euro-Arab Dialogue; summary report Year of publication: 2015 Author: Jacqueline Costa-Lascoux | Janine d'Artois Pursuant to the Charter of the United Nations and the Constitution of UNESCO, calling for peace between peoples and respect for cultural diversity, several National Commissions for UNESCO have taken the initiative to create the conditions for a Euro-Arab dialogue in the field of education. The French and Moroccan National Commissions, in particular, have decided to launch studies to highlight stereotypes, misunderstandings and subliminal bias about Arab countries in European textbooks and about European countries in textbooks in the Arab world. First, these studies were conducted by researchers focusing on their own countries' textbooks in order to analyse how the history of the countries on "the other side of the Mediterranean" was represented. Second, a common methodology was developed to allow comoparative approaches favourable to Euro-Arab dialogue. This was to address any mutual bias or misrepresentations that may exist between the two regions and to work togehter to find ways of preventing and combating them. The originality of the approach was to conduct a critical analysis of textbooks published in each country and then underetake a comparative study to be used as the basis for common recommendations. Participants in this project initiated by the National Commissions defined three main objectives: 1. To strengthen dialogue, laying the foundations for learning to live together, based on mutual respect. 2. To help National Commissions for UNESCO, experts, institutions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to find ways to work together in areas of research of common interest. 3. To contribute to UNESCO's efforts to develop a stretegy relating to textbooks, to improve the quality of education for peace, human rights, mutual understanding and intercultural dialogue.