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Beyond 2015: the education we want Year of publication: 2014 Corporate author: UNESCO | United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) The post-2015 education agenda should be aspirational, transformative and holistic, and an integral part of the broader post-2015 development agenda. It should be of universal relevance and mobilize all stakeholders in all countries. Education must be a stand-alone goal in the broader post-2015 development agenda and should be framed by a comprehensive overarching goal, with measurable global targets and related indicators. In addition, education must be integrated into other development goals. The future education agenda should be rights-based and reflect a perspective based on equity and inclusion, with particular attention to gender equality and to overcoming all forms of discrimination in and through education, ensuring that no-one is left behind. It must support free and compulsory basic education.It should expand the vision of access for all to reflect relevant learning outcomes through the provision of quality education at all levels, from early childhood to higher education, in safe and healthy environments. It should take a holistic and lifelong learning approach, and provide multiple pathways of learning using innovative methods and information and communication technologies. It should reinforce approaches such as global citizenship education and education for sustainable development, which foster attitudes and behaviours that promote peace, conflict resolution and mutual understanding, tolerance, critical thinking, and respect for cultural diversity and for the environment. 
Learning to live together: an intercultural and interfaith programme for ethics education; Good Practices Series 2; Learning to Play Together Year of publication: 2014 Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | Interfaith Council on Ethics Education for Children | Arigatou Foundation Learning to live together: an intercultural and interfaith programme for ethics education; Good Practices Series 2; Learning to Play Together 
Introducing the Global Goals Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Learners can explain what the Global Goals for Sustainable Development are, why they are important and how they relate to the learner her/himself. 
Learning to live together: an intercultural and interfaith programme for ethics education: Executive Summary Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | Interfaith Council on Ethics Education for Children | Arigatou Foundation What is the Learning to Live Together? How was it developed? Where and how can it be used? In the Executive Summary you can find answers to all these questions, as well as information about outstanding projects that show the potential of the programme. 
The Road to the SDGs: A discussion with students Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Animated video to help children learn about important concepts for people and planet as covered in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 
Learning to live together: poster Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | Interfaith Council on Ethics Education for Children | Arigatou Foundation The poster is for the Learning to Live Together programme. The Learning to Live Together programme is built on two complementary learning modules, ‘Understanding Self and Others’ and ‘Transforming the World Together,’ based on four core ethical values: respect, empathy, responsibility and reconciliation. 
The global goals debate Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Learning outcomes: To encourage critical debate about the Global Goals for Sustainable Development, so that young people are aware of the Goals, have critically evaluated them in their own minds and have drawn their own conclusions 
What To Do With The Global Goals In My Daily Life? Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Learning outcomes: Be able to identify creative ways of implementing the Global Goals, understand how to build on each other’s ideas and use creativity in the initial steps of developing sustainability projects 
Learning to live together: an intercultural and interfaith programme for ethics education: Traning guides series 1; international train the trainers course; a report Year of publication: 2012 Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | Interfaith Council on Ethics Education for Children | Arigatou Foundation In 2010, Arigatou International offered an International Train the Trainers course designed to help those providing training programmes on the use of the Learning to Live Together. The University of Edinburgh helped develop and evaluate the Train the Trainers as a pilot project. 
Symposium on climate change education and sustainable cities, 31 August 2009, United Nations Office at Nairobi, Kenya Year of publication: 2009 Corporate author: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) | United Nations Centre for Human Settlement Programme (UN Habitat) Education plays an important role in promoting knowledge, skills and values that are necessary for the realization of a sustainable society. It also assists learners to learn to cope with today's challenges such as climate change and urbanization. The overarching theme of the symposium was the critical role of education in promoting sustainable urbanization with a particular focus on climate change and its challenges. This broad theme was divided into two major sub-themes: 1. Role of education in building sustainable cities 2. Mainstreaming climate change in education for building sustainable cities. The key objective of the symposium was to raise awareness about the decade of education on sustainable development and to promote a constructive dialogue between local authorities, practitioners, academia and civil society organizations on the role of education in addressing the challenges of sustainable urbanization and climate change. A major thrust of the dialogue was “moving from rhetoric to action”. Key concepts of the Symposium Cities Half of humanity now lives in cities, and around one billion urban residents live in slums. The urbanization of poverty is therefore one of the most daunting challenges of the 21st century. Cities offer opportunities, but most urban development is largely toxic, segregated and inefficient. If cities are to come to terms with rapid levels of urbanization, they require leaders, managers and staff capable of adopting innovative and robust approaches to planning, developing, managing and financing growth for all citizens. Climate Change Globally, climate change is now recognized as one of the defining challenges of the 21st century. The future of hundreds of millions of people in urban areas across the world will be affected by the different impacts of climate change. Developing and least developed countries have higher vulnerability to climate change impacts compared to developed countries. Climate change has been identified as one of the main strategic perspectives to inform education and learning for sustainable development and by extension sustainable city development. Climate change issues need to be part of public awareness, learning and education for a sustainable future. The integrated, multifaceted vision provided by ESD is particularly well-suited to addressing climate change and city development in terms of understanding its causes, recognising its impact and effects, and preparing and implementing appropriate mitigation and adaptation responses.