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ASPnet strategy for 2014-2021 global network of schools addressing global challenges: building global citizenship and promoting sustainable development Year of publication: 2014 Corporate author: UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet) Over the next 8 years (2014-2021), ASPnet needs to respond to the needs of education in a rapidly changing and increasingly complex world. The following strategy, therefore, has to remain flexible and requires regular re-evaluation in the light of a changing environment. Globalization and growing interconnectedness ask for increased networking and cooperation. ASPnet has proven to have a great potential for global school networking and educational innovations, which remain largely untapped. UNESCO can make much fuller use of ASPnet in its quest for and implementation of a successful Post-2015 Global Education Agenda. 
Outcome Document of the Technical Consultation on Global Citizenship Education: Global Citizenship Education: An Emerging Perspective Year of publication: 2013 Corporate author: UNESCO This document draws on inputs to, and common perspectives emerging from, a Technical Consultation on Global Citizenship Education organized by UNESCO and the Republic of Korea (i.e., the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of Education, and the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding) in Seoul on 9-10 September 2013 . Informing this draft document are: a) responses from the expert participants to a questionnaire circulated by UNESCO in advance of the consultation; b) presentations from experts during the consultation; c) discussions during the consultation; and d) reference material contributing to, and prepared for, the consultation. The final draft of this document was prepared by UNESCO’s Division of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development at Headquarters in Paris, with the assistance of a drafting team. 
Asia-Pacific Regional Education Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 6-8 August 2014: Asia-Pacific Statement on Education Beyond 2015, Bangkok Statement Year of publication: 2014 Corporate author: UNESCO This document is an outcome of the Asia-Pacific Regional Education Conference (APREC) on August 6 -8, 2014, attended by Ministers of Education, high-level government officials and representatives of civil society organizations, teachers’ organizations, United Nations (UN) agencies, development partners, and members of academia and the private sector, gathered in Bangkok, Thailand. Having taken stock of the progress made in the region in achieving the six Education for All (EFA) goals, having examined the remaining challenges, and having reflected on future priorities and strategies for the Asia-Pacific region to achieve the emerging post-2015 education agenda, the deliberations were made based on the national EFA reviews, the Muscat Agreement adopted at the Global Education for All Meeting (Muscat, Oman, 12-14 May 2014), and the Outcome Document of the UN General Assembly Open Working Group for Sustainable Development Goals. The statement fully endorses the vision, principles and targets laid out in the Muscat Agreement, noting that the overarching goal to ‘ensure equitable and inclusive quality education and lifelong learning for all by 2030’ reflects the aspiration of the region for education and development. 
Final Report: 18th Asia-Pacific Training Workshop on EIU Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: APCEIU This report is the summary of the 18th Asia-Pacific Workshop on EIU (APTW) held in the Republic of Korea from 20 to 28 July 2018. Designed as TOT (Training of Trainers), the Workshop has invited 31 teacher educators/trainers from the Asia-Pacific region, strengthening their capacities to carry out Global Citizenship Education in their respective institutions and countries. 
Final Report: 2018 Sub-regional Workshop on SDG 4.7 and GCED Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: APCEIU This report is the summary of the Sub-regional Workshop on SDG 4.7 and GCED in South Asia. Implemented by two occasions, the Workshop has offered the platform for the key educators from the South Asian region to discuss GCED in the regional context of achieving SDG 4.7. The report provides the overview of the two workshops held in India and Afghanistan in 2018. 
Collection des meilleures pratiques en éducation pour une citoyenneté mondiale en Afrique centrale Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: UNESCO This collection of best practices in human rights education in Central Africa and Ethiopia was prepared in order to respond to UNESCO’s demand to promote such initiatives and to ensure a multiplier effect considering human rights education in the region. The objective is to support the concept of UNESCO’s ‘Global Citizenship Education’ in the field of human rights education in identifying its best practices. In order to identify the best practices, UNESCO’s activities in the field of human rights education in the region were mapped out. This mapping out has shown big differences in implementing the initiatives focused on achieving global citizenship education through human rights education, particularly in primary and secondary education, as indicated in the first phase of the World Programme for human rights education. Nevertheless, various initiatives collected are either conducted/supported by UNESCO or not, in terms of three themes: citizenship education, intercultural dialogue, and the peace and security which are considered to be relevant to Africa in general and particularly to Central Africa, in order to address the main theme of global citizenship education. The selected best practices deal with the tertiary level and are in line with the second phase of the World Programme for human rights education, covering the period between 2009 and 2014 and focusing on higher and vocational education. The practices include 1) citizenship education which supports the principles set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and which is reiterated in the two phases of the World Programme for human rights education, 2) the intercultural dialogue which supports education for understanding and evaluating unity in diversity, and which fits well with the objectives of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development proclaimed by the UN General Assembly and managed by UNESCO, and 3) education for peace and security.It is obvious that many linkages exist among the three subjects mentioned above. Therefore, the examples presented in this collection can affect one or several problems. Each example is presented with the following sequence: identification, background, implementation, and results. 
Leave No One Behind Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: Global Goals At the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals is a commitment to leave no one behind. That’s because, although we have made huge progress towards a better world, too many people have been left behind because of who they are or where they live. 
Schools in Action: Global Citizens for Sustainable Development: A Guide for Teachers Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: UNESCO The Global Citizens for Sustainable Development Teachers’ guide aims to introduce teachers to Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). It provides secondary school teachers with ideas and activities to help students become global citizens and sustainable development actors. The Teachers’ guide draws on the discussions and activities of almost 1,100 participants from 104 countries, including ASPnet National Coordinators, school principals, teachers, students and experts who contributed to the Online Collaborative Platform ASPnet in Action: Global Citizens Connected for Sustainable Development in 2014 and 2015 [http://en.unesco. org/aspnet/globalcitizens] with associated activities and initiatives. The Teachers’ guide provides: An overview of what it means for learners to become global citizens and of how learners can contribute to sustainable development. Ideas for classroom activities that can help secondary school students to develop knowledge, skills, values, attitudes and behaviours that promote GCED and ESD. Selected activities on GCED and ESD from ASPnet schools around the world. Global citizenship: a typology for distinguishing its multiple conceptions Year of publication: 2013 Author: Laura Oxley | Paul Morris Corporate author: Society for Educational Studies | Taylor & Francis The promotion of ‘Global Citizenship’ (GC) has emerged as a goal of schooling in many countries, symbolising a shift away from national towards more global conceptions of citizenship. It currently incorporates a proliferation of approaches and terminologies, mirroring both the diverse conceptions of its nature and the socio-politico contexts within which it is appropriated. This paper seeks to clarify this ambiguity by constructing a typology to identify and distinguish the diverse conceptions of GC. The typology is based on two general forms of GC: cosmopolitan based and advocacy based. The former incorporates four distinct conceptions of GC – namely, the political, moral, economic and cultural; the latter incorporates four other conceptions – namely, the social, critical, environmental and spiritual. Subsequently, we briefly illustrate how the typology can be used to evaluate the critical features of a curriculum plan designed to promote GC in England. The typology provides a novel and powerful means to analyse the key features of the very diverse range of educational policies and programmes that promote GC. World citizenship education and teacher training in a global context: Canada, India and South Africa Year of publication: 2011 Author: George Cappelle | Gary Crippin | Ulla Lundgren Corporate author: Children's identity and Citizenship in Europe (CICE) In this study we change our focus from a European setting to a global one. We were interested to see how our observations from the first study would be reflected in a more global context with focus on the cases of Canada, India and South Africa looking at both the models for world citizenship education and the influence of contextual factors.In choosing these countries we were interested in:Countries on different continentsCountries in different stages of national, social and economic developmentCountries in which there was considerable diversity in the populationCountries in which citizenship and world citizenship education was seen as an important priorityCountries, because of the limitations of researchers, which used English as a primary language.In addition to background research we asked for assistance from professors in the field of teacher education in the three countries to provide us with information on key questions related to citizenship education and teacher training.