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La educación para la ciudadanía global como propuesta metodológica transformadora: Reflexiones y propuestas prácticas Year of publication: 2019 Author: Isarel García | Joan Gratacós | Desiderio De Paz | Mercè Gil | Assumta Zapata Corporate author: Oxfam Intermón Esta publicación, fruto del trabajo colaborativo de la Red de educadores y educadoras para una ciudadanía global, es una propuesta de reflexión y ejemplos prácticos en torno al carácter transformador de la Educación para la ciudadanía global, siendo esencial que para este enfoque educativo que sus acciones educativas vayan encaminadas a fomentar el pensamiento crítico, el diálogo, la colaboración, la solidaridad y el compromiso para la transformación de las desigualdades y la promoción de la justicia social, la equidad y el desarrollo sostenible. El enfoque metodológico, por lo tanto, debe ser también transformador y las estrategias que acompañen procesos, fomentar esta trasformación social. Las metodologías transformadoras son consustanciales a la Educación para la ciudadanía global y los procesos metodológicos que contribuyen a la construcción de escuelas para la ciudadanía global, a nuestro entender, deberían basarse en tres pilares distintos: promover la dimensión transformadora de la educación para construir otro mundo posible y necesario, promover un enfoque socio afectivo centrado en la solidaridad y la empatía cosmopolita y promover la construcción de un currículo más participativo e integrado que genero sentido en docentes y alumnado. 
7th Global Capacity-Building Workshop on GCED: Mentorship Programme Activity Report Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: APCEIU This report summarizes 15 GCED projects implemented by the selected mentees/grantees of APCElU's 7th Global Capacity-Building Workshop on GCED in 2022. 15 GCED initiatives, including teacher training workshops, curriculum development, school-based activities, and community development projects, have been taken by educators, teachers, and practitioners in Asia, Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The mentees/grantees first participated in the 7th Global Capacity-Building Workshop on GCED in September 2022. After the completion of the Workshop, graduates submit the GCED proposals to be selected as the grantees/mentees. The selected 15 mentees/grantees are matched with expert mentors to be guided for their project development and implementation. This report describes the summary of 15 projects held in different corners of the world, along with its outputs. 
Korea-Japan Teacher's Network on GCED 2023: Final Report Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: APCEIU APCEIU launched the Korea-Japan Teachers’ Network on GCED in 2021, and since then, participating teachers from Japan and Korea have engaged in varied activities, including collaborative lesson plan development, online seminars, joint classroom projects, and student exchanges. In 2023, the first in-person training workshop was held in the Republic of Korea. Designed to deepen the understanding of GCED/peace education of participants, strengthen their capacities to foster global citizenship through education, share good practices and cases, and plan for future collaboration, the Workshop was attended by 33 Korean and Japanese teachers who have actively engaged in Network activities, including teacher-student exchange. 
Global Citizenship: A plural and Transformative Vision of Society and School; Volume Ⅰ Year of publication: 2020 Author: Rafael Díaz-Salazar | Alfonso Díez Prieto | Antonio Roura | Augusto Ibáñez | Begoña Carmona | Carme García Yeste | Carmen Magallón | César García-Rincón | Florencio Luengo | Gema Celorio | Gonzalo Fanjul | Juan Iglesias | Juan Pablo Rayo | Luis González Reyes | Manuela Mesa | María Laín | Mónica Cantón de Celis | Pedro Sáez | Pilar Álvarez Cifuentes | Rafael Feito | Regina Gairal | Santiago Álvarez Cantalapiedra | Victoria Camps | Violeta Velasco | Yayo Herrero Corporate author: SM Foundation The objective of this work, which brings together the voices of great specialists, reinforced by the vision of the school itself, is to promote and channel the debate on global citizenship towards an education oriented to the care of the person, society and nature. Understood in this way, education for global citizenship can help us form fulfilled people, prepared to intervene positively in a world in continuous change, and capable of adopting a sustainable way of life for ourselves, those around us and those who will succeed us. 
Education for Global Citizenship: Promoting Democracy Year of publication: 2019 Author: Manuela Mesa Corporate author: Autonomous University of Madrid | Red Iberoamericana de Investigación sobre Cambio y Eficacia Escolar (RINACE) This paper makes a reflection on the role of education in the current international context, marked by profound changes and by a situation of uncertainty and instability and reverse in rights. It discusses the various interpretative frameworks that explain the current world and that are articulated around the global-local axis and ethnic-national identities and multiple identities. In a world characterized by the complexity and speed of changes, it is very important to overcome the the compartmentalization of knowledge in areas such as mathematics, social, language, etc and look for global approaches. Education as a transformative practice cannot be outside of the major challenges facing humanity at the national and multilateral. The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals gives opportunities for the consolidation of the Education for Global Citizenship. La Educación para la ciudadanía global: Una apuesta por la democracia Year of publication: 2019 Author: Manuela Mesa Corporate author: Autonomous University of Madrid | Red Iberoamericana de Investigación sobre Cambio y Eficacia Escolar (RINACE) En este artículo se hace una reflexión sobre el papel de la educación en el actual contexto internacional, marcado por profundos cambios y por una situación de incertidumbre e inestabilidad y de retroceso en derechos. Se abordan los diversos marcos interpretativos que explican el mundo actual y que se articulan en torno al eje global-local y al eje identitario. En un mundo caracterizado por la complejidad y la rapidez de cambios es muy importante superar la compartimentalización del conocimiento en áreas estanco (matemáticas, sociales, lengua, etc.) para abordarlo de manera global. La educación como práctica transformadora no puede estar al margen de los grandes retos que enfrenta la humanidad en el ámbito nacional y multilateral. La Agenda 2030 y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible abre oportunidades para consolidar la educación para la ciudadanía global. 
Peace Education in the 21st Century: An Essential Strategy for Building Lasting Peace Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO This report provides an overview of the importance of peace education, highlighting the challenges and opportunities for using it in efforts to bring about lasting global peace. It reviews key research and is heavily inspired by the discussions held in the context of the revision process of the 1974 Recommendation concerning education for international understanding, co-operation and peace and education relating to human rights and fundamental freedoms. More specifically, this report draws from the following notes developed by UNESCO in 2022: “Current understandings, and threats to lasting peace”, “New understandings of education’s contributions to peace”, and “The role of non-state actors in the promotion of peace through education”. 
Global Citizenship Education: A Handbook for Parents, Community and Learners in Asia-Pacific Year of publication: 2023 Author: Darla K. Deardorff | Seek Ling Tan Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok | APCEIU This handbook aspires to engage and involve parents, caregivers and the community to join the mission of developing every learner into a global citizen. To achieve this, parents, caregivers and the community will need to be empowered with the necessary GCED knowledge and skills too. In this handbook, GCED related concepts are introduced, alongside adaptable step-by-step action plans and best practices collected across the Asia-Pacific region to support parents and the community to take action in developing GCED competences in learners. 
Reconciliation through Global Citizenship Education Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO This document zeroes in on how concepts of GCED and reconciliation are addressed in current research and practice and aims to provide existing grounds and future considerations for policy-makers concerned with reconciliation through education. 
Peace the Best Way Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: Lesotho Distance Teaching Centre (LDTC) The storybook titled “Peace, the Best Way (Ngoan’a Khotso Ha a Lebale Tsa Khotso)” is an end-product of Workshop in Lesotho on GCED: Teacher Training on Peace Education & GCED Learning Material Development held between 12 and 14 of July 2017. During the workshop, participants created learning materials on peace and conflict transformation based on what they have learned throughout the sessions.The authors share their stories of conflicts that they encounter in their everyday lives and further identify ways of managing and resolving the conflicts in a peaceful manner to let everyone live in harmony. They hope to instill the importance of peace not only to the adults reading the book, but also to the younger generation who learn from their parents and adults of the community.The book published in English as well as Sesotho, will be used as teaching and learning resources for learners and also be disseminated to public locations including schools, community centers and libraries.For more information on the Workshop, Please click here.