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Issue to Action: Mathematics; Teaching Toolkit for a Fairer World Year of publication: 2021 Author: Corinne Angier Corporate author: Scotdec These resources offer maths teams an opportunity to take an applications approach within the BGE phase. You might want to make connections to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and you can find some introductory activities to the goals here.The materials explore 3 broad themes – climate change, gender equality and migration – with 2 sets of activities for each theme supported with a PowerPoint presentation.The lessons and worksheets in the booklet and accompanying PowerPoints are all free to download below. All activities are mapped to ‘Experiences and Outcomes’, benchmarks and core maths skills are highlighter. 
The Global Citizen's Journey: A Resource for Global Citizenship Education Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: GOAL Global This resource for Global Citizenship Education is designed by our Global Youth Programme for educators and leaders of 14–18-year-olds all over the world. Centring on the themes of interconnectedness, development, power and inequality this free, downloadable booklet of activities encourages critical thinking, reflection, and empower the pursuit of positive change.To find out more, watch our introductory video here. 
Raising Citizens' Awareness Through Development Education: Success Stories Collection Year of publication: 2020 Author: Lur Fernandez Salinas Corporate author: PLATFORMA Development Education and Awareness Raising (DEAR) are natural lines of action for local and regional governments active in development cooperation and tie in perfectly with their territorial strategies.Awareness-raising among citizens, through the action of municipalities and regions, remains a core component of the co-responsibility, solidarity, mutual knowledge and mutual understanding needed to mobilise and unite communities.Discover this Success Stories Collection which aims to showcase concrete, impactful and transformative experiences of local and regional governments and their associations actively engaged in DEAR projects and decentralised cooperation strategies. 
Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective: Global Citizenship Education Otherwise; Study Guide Year of publication: 2019 Author: Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti | Sharon Stein | Rene Suša | Dani d’Emilia | Elwood Jimmy | Bill Calhoun | Sarah Amsler | Camilla Cardoso | Dino Siwek | Kyra Fay | Tereza Čajková Corporate author: Decolonial Futures Collective This booklet was developed with a specific audience in mind: educators working with global citizenship education in Europe. It presents an overview of the work of the collective and outlines two pedagogical experiments. The first pedagogical experiment, “Bare Basics” is a program for self or group study consisting of a collection of resources organized around 6 thematic areas (denial of violence, denial of unsustainability, denial of entanglement, how education has helped create the problem, so what/now what?, the difficulties/impossibilities of imagining otherwise). The second pedagogical experiment is an experiential learning program that we run by request (as a TTT or a residency). It involves mapping, imagination, body and land-based exercises. We invite you to engage with the outline of both programs, starting with our “broccoli seed agreement” on the back of the booklet. 
Localizing the 2030 Agenda and Global Citizenship Education: An Essential Dialogue Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: Diputació de Barcelona Diputació de Barcelona has produced a document that offers guidelines to strengthen the links between Global Citizenship Education (GCE) actions and localizing SDGs initiatives, in order to drive real changes in local policies.What we call Global Citizenship Education (GCE) brings together key elements of different educational trends, such as development education, peace education or education for sustainability, among others. Each of them has decades of experience in promoting changes in citizen’s knowledge, attitudes and behaviours through formal or informal channels. This experience can help to reinforce the 2030 Agenda’s capacity to generate real change towards a more sustainable future for the planet, connecting local and global realities and highlighting interdependencies and co-responsibility. The document points out what can be done at the local level to improve this dialogue between SDG and GCE with practical proposals such as introducing GCE perspective in the SDGs training activities or implementing joint initiatives between development cooperation departments and other areas to reach new audiences. 
South-South and Triangular Cooperation in Action Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: UNESCO | UN. Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) This publication is UNESCO’s first dedicated report on South-South cooperation and triangular cooperation. It presents an overall picture of the progress achieved to support technical cooperation, capacity building and knowledge sharing through South-South and triangular cooperation in UNESCO’s areas of competence with highlights of specific examples. It paves the way for deepening future cooperation in this area. 
International Environmental Politics and Critical Approach to Global Citizenship Education Year of publication: 2017 Author: Zheng Fuxing The research and practice of global citizenship education have thrived since 1990s, but the effectiveness of global citizenship education is limited. The research cannot avoid the problematic premise of the possibility of global citizenship education. The identity predicament of global citizen and alienation of local implementing make probability of the global citizenship education problematic. The practial predicament of the global citizenship education maninfest5s that the nation state is the key factor of policy implementation. Environmental question, which is about global common good, attracts the attention from the government of most of nations, and becomes the good case for exploring the feasibility of global citizenship education. Environmental politics explain the inequality and injustice in the globally enviromental governance which made the global citizenship education critical. The critical ecopedagogy becomes the new form of global citizenship. The practice of the global citizenship education becomes viable by hybrid activism generated by dialectical movement between local and global in the limit of nation-state. 
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. 
Global citizenship in primary and secondary education in the Netherlands Year of publication: 2012 Author: Lette Hogeling Corporate author: National Committee for International Cooperation and Sustainable Development (NCDO) NCDO has examined the opinions and methods of teachers and directors with regard to global citizenship, as well as the obstacles and opportunities they experience around global citizenship in education. More than 1,500 teachers and almost 300 directors have participated in the research. A large majority of the teachers in primary and secondary education think that global citizenship is an important subject for Dutch education. Also, the majority of the teachers are of the opinion that it is important that the lessons link up with current events. Nevertheless, only a minority of the teachers in primary and secondary education believe that global citizenship should be a compulsory part of the curriculum. It is mainly teachers of geography, economics, cultural and social subjects who are of the opinion that global citizenship is an important theme. 
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”.