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Learning to mitigate and adapt to climate change: UNESCO and climate change education Year of publication: 2009 Corporate author: UNESCO This report is a result of the UNESCO International Seminar on Climate Change Education at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, 27-29 July, 2009. Over the past 30 years, UNESCO has actively contributed to building the global knowledge base on climate change. Primarily through its contribution to climate science (global ocean observation systems, assessment and monitoring) and secondarily by promoting education, capacity development, public awareness and access to information. As Task Manager of Chapter 36 of Agenda 21 – which relates to the promotion of education, public awareness and training – and lead agency for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD, 2005-2014), the Organization plays a lead role in promoting Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Climate change is one of the key action themes of the Decade, as was reaffirmed at the World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development held in Bonn in April 2009. Education has a central role to play in understanding, mitigating and adapting to the changing climate. While education at all levels and in both formal and informal settings is needed, instilling climate change awareness and understanding at a young age is ultimately the best way to change behaviours and attitudes. What children learn today will shape tomorrow’s world. Through the New Delhi work programme – which is a flexible programme for country-driven action engaging all stakeholders on education, training and public awareness on climate change, UNESCO supports its Member States to implement Article 6 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Similarly, the UNESCO Enhanced Plan of Action for the Strategy for Action on Climate Change recognizes the importance of and outlines action for education in promoting mitigation of and adaptation to climate change. UNESCO associated schools news infos: climate change education Year of publication: 2009 Corporate author: UNESCO As the United Nations Climate Change Conference takes place on December 7 to 18 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, this special issue will focus on selected climate change education activities carried out by the ASP network around the globe. Climate change is one of the most urgent challenges of sustainable development and a key action theme in the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD). ASPnet schools around the world work on Climate Change Education in order to enable students to make informed and responsible decisions, turn passive awareness into behaviour change and make sustainable behaviours a daily habit. The development of good practices and innovative educational materials in climate change education is a key element in ASPnet’s strategy to meet the pressing educational needs of the future generation. This newsletter highlights only a few of the large number of activities of ASPnet worldwide. 
UNESCO international meeting of experts: fostering a culture of intercultural dialogue in the Arab States; report Year of publication: 2012 Corporate author: UNESCO Beirut Within the framework of the project “Fostering a Culture of Peace and Dialogue” an international meeting of experts on Fostering a Culture of Intercultural Dialogue in the Arab States took place in Beirut, Lebanon on 6 and 7 March 2012 at the Holiday Inn Hotel in Verdun. The meeting was organized by UNESCO Beirut Office in partnership with the Government of Saudi Arabia and the King Abdulaziz Center of National Dialogue and in collaboration with the Arab Thought Foundation. The 2 days event was a landmark meeting of 35 experts and professionals from more than 11 countries, representing a wide range of fields in conflict resolution, research and education, media and journalism. The meeting is the first activity of a series of regional activities and interventions to be organized within the framework of the UNESCO project “Fostering a Culture of Peace and Dialogue”. UNESCO GCED eNewsletter Issue 3 Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: UNESCO Feature: Expanding partenrships around Global Citizenship EducationUNESCO – IEA partnershipPresident Park Geun-hye announces initiatives to widen prtnership with UNESCOUNESCO and the United States promote education to prevent violent extremismUNESCO signs partnership with Asia Society to advance Global Citizenship EducationInternational Mother Language DayUNESCO Category 2 Institute on mother languages established in BangladeshUCLA establishes new UNESCO Chair in Global Learning and Global Citizenship EducationWorkshop in Abidjan focuses on learning to live together through history educationLeading French network of rural vocational institutions puts Global Citizenship Education firstSub-regional Workshop on Global Citizenship Education in Central AsiaRabat Conference on Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education: Trends and Innovation from CSOsConference on Global Citizenship Education in SudanConference on Global Citizenship Education in SharjahFocus on: ongoing UNESCO school initiative: the Happy Schools ProjectCurriculum development and review for democratic citizenship and human rights educationKey TweetsUpcoming Events 
A Pedagogical Guide on Global Citizenship Education in Korean Context Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: 유네스코 아시아태평양 국제이해교육원(APCEIU) APCEIU has published a pedagogical guide on Global Citizenship Education (GCED) for Korean readers, which is the Korean adaptation of the UNESCO pedagogical guide, GCED: Topics and Learning Objectives (a.k.a. TLOs).Following the recently launched Korean translation of the TLOs, this Korean adaptation contextualizes the TLOs in Korean education, aligns its terminologies with Korean curriculum, and provides further explanations for Korean readers. This guide was developed by professors in the field of teacher education, primary and secondary school teachers, and curriculum developers with special expertise in GCED/EIU.It is hoped that this guide will help Korean educators and key stakeholders better understand GCED as a new pedagogy and also reflect on traditional teaching-learning experiences in various respects. Values Education through Sport Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: UNESCO Innovative education for developmentEducation in the 21st century increasingly recognizes the role of values and social skills in tackling global challenges, such as inactivity, obesity, unemployment, and conflict. This approach is at the core of the Sustainable Development Goal 4 on quality education, which advocates for inclusive lifelong learning opportunities and innovative content delivery. Dynamic forms of values-based education using sport can be introduced in schools to support teachers deliver curricula actively and cooperatively.What are sport values?Sport can teach values such as fairness, teambuilding, equality, discipline, inclusion, perseverance and respect. Sport has the power to provide a universal framework for learning values, thus contributing to the development of soft skills needed for responsible citizenship.What can Values Education through Sport offer?Values Education through Sport (VETS) programmes support active learning, complement cognitive skills and give students increasing amounts of responsibility, and enhance their level of concentration and participation. VETS programmes are flexible and have a strong cross-curricular potential: they can reinforce existing curricula and can be streamed across different subjects, including physical education, civic and moral education, nutrition, biology, arts. Ultimately, these programmes help students to transfer and put values into action outside the school environment, by getting engaged in their communities, making informed decisions, being sensitive and respecting the others and the environment. VETS contributes to the development of self-confidence, active and healthy lifestyle choices, and an understanding of rights, supporting the delicate transition to the independence of adulthood. 
Global Education (International) and Teaching Social Subjects: Applications and Models from Previous Research and Studies Year of publication: 2018 Author: Asmaa Al-Ahdal | Iman Eida Corporate author: King Abdulaziz University A lecture from a Saudi university, dealing with what is international education as a science, and its applications in social studies curricula. The two lectures discuss the concept of international education, its characteristics and the history of its inception as a science. 
UNESCO GCED eNewsletter Issue 4 Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: UNESCO Feature: Mobilizing support for global citizenship and sustainable development through Education Target 4.7 UNESCO 1974 Recommendation used to measure progress towards education target 4.7 Measuring progress towards 4.7 Gyeongju Action Plan: NGOs join UNESCO Global capacity-building workshop on GCED organized by APCEIU Southern Africa Regional Meeting on GCED convened in Johannesburg, South Africa UNESCO launches Teacher's Guide on the Prevention of Violent Extremism Expert meeting on the Prevention of Violent Extremism through Education European ministers back education for democracy to counter extremism and racaism UN discusses innovative solutions to prevent violent extremism through education UNESCO's YESPeace Network taps the power of youth worldwide to change the future GCED Topics and Learning Objectives available in seven languages. 
One World, One People, One Future: Imagine a World that Understands, Embraces & Practices Peace and Sustainable Development Year of publication: 2014 Corporate author: Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) One World, One People, One Future: Imagine a World that Understands, Embraces & Practices Peace and Sustainable Development 
Rethinking Schooling for the 21st Century: The State of Education for Peace, Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship in Asia Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) Calls to gear up schools for the 21st century are ubiquitous today. Dominant international educational discourse hails the potential of 'the youth dividend' and digital technology for enhancing growth. Some Asian education systems are held up as models for an innovation-led utopian future. But across much of Asia, neither the reality of schooling nor the patterns of development with which it is associated give cause for blithe optimism.This study is informed by UNESCO’s commitment to realising the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through educational reform worldwide. Since its inception, UNESCO has championed a humanistic vision of education — a vision today encapsulated in SDG 4.7. These ideals need to be strongly restated and defended in an era when educational debate worldwide has come to be framed by a narrowly economistic and instrumentalist agenda.Deriving urgent significance from this broader context, the present report analyses how far the ideals of SDG 4.7 – of 'education for peace, sustainable development and global citizenship' - are embodied in policies and curricula across 22 Asian societies. At one level, it seeks to develop benchmarks against which future progress can be assessed. It also argues forcefully that conceptions of the fundamental purposes of schooling need to be reconfigured, if the ideals to which the global community has subscribed are actually to be realised.