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EIU Best Practices Series No. 24: Innovative Practice of Inter-disciplinary Implementation of EIU based on World Heritages Year of publication: 2011 Author: QIAN Lixia Corporate author: APCEIU This monograph is one of APCEIU's EIU Best Practices Series, which aims to encourage educators, scholars, and activists to implement and share local initiatives on EIU. The Series No.24 introduces a research undertaken by the Research Center for ESD, which outline projects that can be implemented to explore and promote education for international understanding and world heritage. To test the effectiveness, the Center carried out activities such as role-playing discussions and hands-on festival experiences at four kindergartens of the Huijia Education Organization and the High School Affiliated to the Renmin University of China. Overall, such initiative increased multicultural awareness of students and teachers alike, and affirmed commitment for further research and development. 
EIU Best Practices Series No. 25: School-based In-service Programme Year of publication: 2011 Author: Yeshi Pemo Corporate author: APCEIU This monograph is one of APCEIU's EIU Best Practices Series, which aims to encourage educators, scholars, and activists to implement and share local initiatives on EIU. The Series No.25 introduces the case of the Damphu Lower Secondary School in Bhutan, which carried out a number of initiatives to promote culture of peace and EIU through workshops, literary activities, and contests for students, teachers, parents, and nation-wide UNESCO clubs. The case showcases that the educators’ aspirations toward education for peace can be achieved through the combination of excellent school leadership, strong commitment, high competency, and available resources. 
EIU Best Practices Series No. 27: Integrating EIU with the Curriculum for Gross National Happiness Education in Bhutan Year of publication: 2012 Author: Udhim Subba Corporate author: APCEIU This monograph is one of APCEIU's EIU Best Practices Series, which aims to encourage educators, scholars, and activists to implement and share local initiatives on EIU. The Series No.27 introduces Bhutan’s Yebilaptsa Middle Secondary School, in its effort to promote values of EIU as a complementary component of the Gross National Happiness Education efforts. Activities such as UNESCO club community activities, environmental learning, EIU cultural night, international exchange altogether exemplify effective ways to integrate EIU practices in the curriculum and extracurricular programs of schools. 
EIU Best Practices Series No. 2: Promoting Racial Integration through Co-Curricular Activities Year of publication: 2006 Corporate author: APCEIU This monograph is one of APCEIU's EIU Best Practices Series, which aims to encourage educators, scholars, and activists to implement and share local initiatives on EIU. The Series No.2 introduces a program in which Malaysian students of varied racial and ethnic backgrounds engaged in a dancing co-curricular activity to understand and embrace other cultures. Students were tasked to prepare cultural dances, while learning local history and customs. The successful program shows that racial integration can be promoted as a co-curricular activity, encouraging students to respect and overcome differences to create a harmonious community. 
EIU Best Practices Series No. 6: Practical Research on Current Issues: Studies on Global Perspectives in Schools in Japan Year of publication: 2007 Corporate author: APCEIU This monograph is one of APCEIU's EIU Best Practices Series, which aims to encourage educators, scholars, and activists to implement and share local initiatives on EIU. The Series No.6 is a research undertaken on two schools of Japan and Korea, in which students were tasked to conduct research on bilateral conflict issues and devise suggestions for peaceful resolution. Besides classroom discussions and presentations, student exchange visit further allowed active learning and engaging of issues, historical awareness and perception, and mutual understanding as global citizens. 
Revision Process of the 1974 Recommendation concerning Education for International Understanding, Co-operation and Peace and Education relating to Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: Comments from Observers to the Plenary Meetings of the International Expert Group (IEG) Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO Adopted in 1974, the Recommendation concerning education for international understanding, co-operation and peace and education relating to human rights and fundamental freedoms is considered a landmark legal instrument that brings together for the first time peace, international understanding, human rights, fundamental freedoms and education. In line with the Resolution adopted at UNESCO’s General Conference at its 41st Session in November 2021 (41C/Resolution 17), UNESCO launched the revision of the Recommendation and convened an International Expert Group (IEG) to advise the Organization on the changes. The work of the IEG took place between May and June 2022. Though the meetings of the IEG were technical in nature (category VI), in order to ensure an open and transparent process, the Permanent Delegations were invited to listen-in to the deliberations of the IEG online, as observers, along with a select number of non-governmental organizations, intergovernmental organizations, and United Nations entities. At the end of each plenary meeting, observers to the IEG plenary meetings could submit written comments. This document compiles the comments received from observers during this process and submitted to the IEG members for their consideration. 
Revised Recommendation Concerning Education for International Understanding, Co-operation and Peace and Education Relating to Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ('1974 Recommendation') Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: UNESCO The revision of the 1974 Recommendation provides the international community with the opportunity to strengthen the instrument so that it can support the design and implementation of effective educational policies and programmes, which can put the world on a pathway to lasting peace and sustainable development for all, in line with the requirements of the 2030 Agenda and the body of international legal norms adopted since 1974. Recommandation révisée sur l’éducation pour la compréhension, la coopération et la paix internationales et l’éducation relative aux droits de l’homme et aux libertés fondamentales (« Recommandation de 1974 ») Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: UNESCO La révision de la Recommandation de 1974 offre à la communauté internationale l'occasion de renforcer l'instrument afin qu'il puisse soutenir la conception et la mise en œuvre de politiques et de programmes éducatifs efficaces, susceptibles de mettre le monde sur la voie d'une paix durable et du développement durable pour tous, conformément aux exigences de l'Agenda 2030 et à l'ensemble des normes juridiques internationales adoptées depuis 1974. 
Teachers Have Their Say: Motivation, Skills and Opportunities to Teach Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: منظمة الأمم المتحدة للتربية والعلم والثقافة (UNESCO) | Education International (EI) This report examines how ready teachers are to meet the promise of Sustainable Development Goal 4 on Education and Target 4.7, which calls on countries ‘to ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development’. 
Global Citizenship Education in a Digital Age: Teacher Guidelines Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO This book is an essential resource for teachers seeking to understand the critical role that digital citizenship education plays in promoting a more informed, engaged, and responsible global citizenry. While digital technologies have opened up new opportunities for life-long learning, they have also given rise to emerging concerns, notably in relation to the rise of disinformation and hate speech online. Aimed at building the capacities of teachers to prepare learners to act ethically and responsibly in physical and digital environments, these guidelines stress the importance of considering how Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and related knowledge, values, skills and attitudes can be fostered for teaching, learning and engaging for a more sustainable, inclusive, just and peaceful world.