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Promoting inclusive teacher education: Introduction Year of publication: 2013 Author: Ian Kaplan | Ingrid Lewis Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok ‘Promoting Inclusive Teacher Education’ is a series of five advocacy guides. The guides discuss challenges and barriers to inclusive education in different areas of teacher education and offer related strategies and solutions for effective advocacy towards more inclusive practices. The series begins with this introductory guide. It provides an overview of inclusive teacher education and of what advocacy means in this context. It also provides an introduction to the topics covered in the four other guides in the series. These are ‘Policy’, ‘Curriculum’, ‘Materials’, and ‘Methodology’.Advocacy Guide 1: Introduction – This introductory guide begins by providing a brief introduction to inclusive education. Readers should not, however, see this introductory guide as their only guide for understanding inclusive education. It is assumed that advocates will either have existing knowledge of inclusive education or will refer to other more comprehensive sources of information to learn about the concept. This guide goes on to explain the benefits of integrating awareness and understanding of inclusive education throughout pre-service teacher education. Finally, it provides a practical introductory guide to advocacy. 
Equitable Education: 30 Years from Education for All to All for Education 2030 Year of publication: 2020 Author: Juan Miguel Luz Corporate author: Equitable Education Fund In the 30 years since the World Declaration on Education for All (Jomtien Declaration, Thailand), the world has made enormous strides in achieving the target of universal primary education.Total enrolment rates in developing regions reached 91 percent in 2015 and the worldwide number of children out of school has dropped by almost half. However, large disparities remain. Children from the poorest households are up to five times more likely to be out of school than those of the richest households. Disparities between rural and urban areas also remain high.As education inequality threatens to widen because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with only 10 years to go to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), now, more than ever, is the time for the world to come together and accelerate change through innovative and sustainable solutions. 
Strengthening Kazakhstan's Education Systems: An Analysis of PISA 2009 and 2012 Year of publication: 2014 Author: Keiko Inoue | Lucas Gortazar Corporate author: World Bank This report is the result of the World Bank's education sector providing technical and analytical support to the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan (RK) from 2013 to 2015 under the leadership of Keiko Inoue (Senior Education Specialist, Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank) as part of the Joint Economic Research. This report is also part of a series of PISA country reporting programs prepared by the Education Sector for the Europe and Central Asia Region, and it is also the second World Bank report on the effectiveness of the education system in Kazakhstan based on an analysis of PISA data. Укрепление системы образования Казахстана: Анализ результатов исследования PISA, проводимого в 2009 и 2012 годах Year of publication: 2014 Author: Keiko Inoue | Lucas Gortazar Corporate author: World Bank Этот отчет является результатом работы сектора образования Всемирного банка по технической и аналитической поддержке правительства Республики Казахстан (РК) в период с 2013 по 2015 год под руководством Кейко Иноуэ (старший специалист по образованию, Регион Европы и Центральной Азии, Всемирный банк) в рамках Программы Совместных Экономических Исследований. Этот отчет также является частью серии программы страновых отчетов PISA, подготовленной Сектором образования по региону Европы и Центральной Азии, а также это второй отчет Всемирного Банка о результативности системы образования РК на основе анализа данных PISA. 
教育造福 人类与地球：为全民创造可持续的未来, 2016 全球教育监测报告; 摘要 Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: UNESCO The GEM Report provides an authoritative account of how education is the most vital input for every dimension of sustainable development. Better education leads to greater prosperity, improved agriculture, better health outcomes, less violence, more gender equality, higher social capital and an improved natural environment. Education is key to helping people around the world understand why sustainable development is such a vital concept for our common future. Education gives us the key tools – economic, social, technological, even ethical – to take on the SDGs and to achieve them. These facts are spelled out in exquisite and unusual detail throughout the report. Yet the report also emphasizes the remarkable gaps between where the world stands today on education and where it has promised to arrive as of 2030. La Educación al servicio de los pueblos y el planeta: creación de futuros sostenibles para todos, resumen del informe de seguimiento de la educación en el mundo 2016; Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: UNESCO The GEM Report provides an authoritative account of how education is the most vital input for every dimension of sustainable development. Better education leads to greater prosperity, improved agriculture, better health outcomes, less violence, more gender equality, higher social capital and an improved natural environment. Education is key to helping people around the world understand why sustainable development is such a vital concept for our common future. Education gives us the key tools – economic, social, technological, even ethical – to take on the SDGs and to achieve them. These facts are spelled out in exquisite and unusual detail throughout the report. Yet the report also emphasizes the remarkable gaps between where the world stands today on education and where it has promised to arrive as of 2030. 
Mainstreaming Inclusive Education: Sharing Good Practices Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: Save the Children The primary aim of this documentation is to provide a deeper understanding of how projects have applied more inclusive concepts in not only changing the lives of children with disabilities, those living in poverty or children from ethnic minority populations, their families and communities, but in catalysing changes in policies and practices to the education system to benefit all learners.The stories follow a common structure describing the background of the project, a description of an approach that has worked especially well in the project, followed by stakeholder and partner engagement, participation of children, key milestones and significant challenges, scalability and sustainability, recommendations for replication and contact links for project tools and materials. A selection of practical tools and models have been attached as annexes. 
Indigenous Knowledge and practices in Education in Latin America: Exploratory Analysis of How Indigenous Cultural Worldviews and Concepts Influence Regional Educational Policy Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO Santiago This study presents a preliminary exploration of the approaches, processes and tools through which indigenous worldviews and concepts of knowledge and well-being can and have influenced education policies in Latin America. First, it addresses the principal theoretical approaches used in the area of indigenous knowledge and education policies, taking into account the persistence of an “epistemic otherness” and the need for a dialogue between the predominant approaches. Second, it addresses the normative framework and intercultural educational policies, emphasizing how and to what extent the countries in the region take indigenous knowledge into consideration and include it in their education policies and practices. Third, it presents a number of “relevant practices” in terms of dialogue with indigenous knowledge in education policies, taking into account the factors that favour the relevance of education to indigenous views and cultural practices, facilitating their replicability and sustainability. Furthermore, these practices respond to key criteria like recognizing learners as ‘carriers’ and producers of culture, valuing the use of schools as centres of social and cultural activities and favouring the inclusive learning of indigenous and non-indigenous students. Finally, the study unveils challenges for the advancement of the dialogue between indigenous knowledge and education policies, at the same time proposing key concepts to be approached in depth. Conocimiento Indígena y Políticas Educativas en América Latina: Análisis exploratorio de cómo las cosmovisiones y conceptos culturales indígenas de conocimiento inciden, y pueden incidir, en la política educativa en la región Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO Santiago El presente estudio explora la idea de una ‘alternativa epistémica’, construyendo desde el conocimiento y los valores que sustentan las prácticas sociales y educacionales indígenas de la región. En particular, explora cómo estos valores y formas de conocimiento han sido adoptados en las políticas educacionales de tres países de la región andina: Bolivia, Ecuador y Perú, que hace poco atravesaron reformas políticas y constitucionales con el fin de reconocer la composición de sus poblaciones multiculturales, multiétnicas y multilingüísticas. Esta publicación es una invitación a considerar el conocimiento indígena como una fuente legítima de inspiración para las políticas educacionales que puedan contribuir al bienestar de todos y a la sostenibilidad del planeta. 
Curriculum in the Education 2030 Agenda: Latin America and the Caribbean Year of publication: 2017 Author: Renato Opertti Corporate author: UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE) “Curriculum in the Education 2030 Agenda: Latin America and the Caribbean”1 discusses the importance of rethinking the curriculum in light of a transformational, humanistic and holistic vision of education. The Education 2030 Agenda, which emerged from the World Education Forum (WEF) 2015 held in Incheon, Republic of Korea, positions curriculum as a powerful education policy tool leading the way to effective, relevant and sustainable learning opportunities, processes and outcomes. Curricula have a positive effect as levers for the sustainable, inclusive, fair and cohesive development of a country. They reflect and help to construct the type of society envisioned. The article provides recommendations to strengthen the positioning of curriculum toward an inclusive and equitable quality education in Latin America and the Caribbean. It therefore addresses the following questions: 1) How is curriculum currently conceived?; 2) What role does it play in the reforms aimed at improving equity and quality of the learning processes?; 3) What are the main regional challenges in relation to curriculum development?; and 4) How could countries align their curricula with their development needs?