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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. 26: Promotion of EIU through Multilingual Education Year of publication: 2011 Author: Narayan Prasad Subedi 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.26 showcases a Multilingual Education Programme initiated by the Magar community in Nepal, that fosters EIU and multiculturalism. As there are over 200 local languages within Nepal, the MEP seeks to address the educational needs of non-Nepali speaking population. The program helps to enhance teacher capacity building, training manual development, and curriculum development, thereby allowing non-Nepali students to study in respective mother tongue. 
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. 
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