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On the International Day for Tolerance: Calls for Coexistence and the Rejection of Intolerance Year of publication: 2020 Author: Wijdan Alrubai Corporate author: Awraas TV On the International Day for Tolerance, the broadcaster on the TV program hosts some specialists to speak about tolerance and reject intolerance in the Arab world. Through the program, the difference in the concept of tolerance among the speakers is shown and raised as an issue in the Arab world. 
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. 
Schools and war: urgent agendas for comparative and international education Year of publication: 2005 Author: Lynn Davies Corporate author: Taylor & Francis This paper looks first at the contributions that education makes to conflict, through the reproduction of inequality and exclusion, through perpetuation of ethnic or religious divisions, through its acceptance of dominant aggressive masculinities, through selection, competition and fear, and through distorted curricular emphases on narrow cognitive areas of learning. However, the paper also outlines some ‘possibilities for hope’, such as resilient schools, the impact of peace education initiatives and the rise of global citizenship education. 
Competences for Democratic Culture: Living together as equals in culturally diverse democratic societies Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: Council of Europe This document is a product of a Council of Europe project which is taking place in four phases during 2014-17. The first phase has been devoted to the development of a conceptual model of the competences which citizens require to participate effectively in a culture of democracy. This document describes the model and the methods that were used to develop it. The document is aimed at readers who wish to understand the underlying assumptions and technical details of the model. Phase two of the project will be devoted to the development of descriptors (i.e. statements or descriptions of what a person is able to do if they have mastered the various competences that are specified by the model), phase three to ascertaining whether it is possible to assign the descriptors to levels of proficiency, and phase four to the production of supporting documentation. This documentation will be addressed to educational practitioners and policy makers, and will provide a less technical description of the current competence model. It will also explain how the model and the descriptors can be used to assist curriculum design, pedagogical design and the development of new forms of assessment (for use in either selfassessment or assessment by others). All of the materials that are produced by the project will eventually be incorporated into a Council of Europe reference framework of competences for democratic culture. Further information about the project is available from the project website: www.coe.int/competences 
Get Global!: Assessment & Evaluation Worksheets Year of publication: 2003 Author: Joanne Price Corporate author: ActionAid | Oxfam Get Global! is a teachers' guide on how to facilitate active global citizenship. It allows learners to move from thinking about issues that are important to them, to planning and participating in action, and to reflect on their performance, and assess their work. Although aimed at 11-16 year olds, some of the activities could easily be adapted for use with younger learners. 
Get Global!: A Skills-based Approach to Active Global Citizenship Year of publication: 2003 Author: Joanne Price Corporate author: ActionAid | Oxfam Get Global! is a teachers' guide on how to facilitate active global citizenship. It allows learners to move from thinking about issues that are important to them, to planning and participating in action, and to reflect on their performance, and assess their work. Although aimed at 11-16 year olds, some of the activities could easily be adapted for use with younger learners. 
Inclusion at the University of Meritorious Students in Situations of Social Vulnerability Year of publication: 2015 Author: Marcela Orellana | Karla Moreno | Francisco Javier Gil Corporate author: UNESCO Santiago | UNESCO Chair on Inclusion in Higher Education The first edition of this work was published by the OREALC / UNESCO Santiago for its dissemination among those attending the Education for All Ministerial Meeting in Latin America and the Caribbean: Balance and Challenges post 2015, within the framework of the Regional Education Project for America Latin America and the Caribbean (PRELAC), held in Lima, Peru on October 30 and 31, 2014. In this second edition, we are pleased to add other inclusion mechanisms that arise from the commitment of the UNESCO Chair in Inclusion in Higher Education, the valuable support from non-profit private foundations and the support of OREALC / UNESCO Santiago. The generation of these alliances constitutes a fundamental contribution to the collection of relevant information for the design of public policy proposals aimed at reducing the inequality gaps in higher education, guaranteeing the right to a quality education and to collaborate in the construction of societies with greater social justice. 
Anthropology of Citizenship? ... Ethnic. Under Construction from Latin America Year of publication: 2007 Author: Xochitl Leyva Solano The main argument of this article develops around the concept of citizenship which I will examine taking as a starting point contributions made in the fields of law studies, philosophy and anthropology. There have been considerable advances in the social sciences with the proposition and discussion of new composite concepts such as “multicultural citizenship”, “intercultural citizenship”, and “ethnic citizenship”. With “ethnic citizenship” in particular, scholars have been trying to respond to the history and nature of the demands, claims and struggles that indigenous organizations and communities, movements and their leaders have made in Latin America over the past three decades. ¿Who proposed this concept, and when, where and for what purposes was it developed? What are the advantages and limits of “ethnic citizenship”? Who is using this concept now and in what social and political contexts? This discussion leads me to ask whether it is possible to speak of an emerging, alternative Latin American model of interpretation. 
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. 
Critical Interculturality and Anti-racism: Tackling Migration and Diversity With Young People Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: Entreculturas | European Union (EU) Through this guide, educators, teachers, professionals who support youth groups, as well as anyone who works or wants to work with young people on this topic will be able to find useful tools to generate educational spaces from which to build more tolerant societies. It is available in Spanish and English, and in it readers will be able to find key concepts that will help them become familiar with the language and approaches used in matters of migration and diversity, practical tools for working with young groups, as well as self-assessment exercises and reflection questionnaires through which to review their own perspectives on cultural diversity and migration narratives.