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Learning to Live Together Sustainably: Addressing the Challenge of UN Sustainable Development Goal Target 4.7 Year of publication: 2019 Author: Margaret Sinclair | Jean Bernard Corporate author: Protect Education in Conflict and Insecurity (PEIC) | Spectacle Learning Media The practical advice and guidelines in this book help support learning to live together, conflict transformation and peace at the individual, group and community levels. The framework for developing widely accessible, high quality learning materials supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals and is relevant to formal and non-formal education activities and projects. This document also raises important issues about the professional responsibilities of policy-makers at global and national level, who determine what content is addressed in the classroom. In particular, it addresses the need for education materials that support cross-cutting issues such as learning to live together, global citizenship education, and education for sustainable development. 
EIU Best Practices Series No. 19: Culture-Based Education Programme for Indigenous Children & Youth in the Philippines Year of publication: 2010 Author: Benjamin David Abadiano 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.19 introduces the Pumulaan program, a successful culture-based education programme for indigenous children and youth in the Philippines. The program is similar to that of Tugdaan, a widely recognized education program that promote learning for the Indigenous people. The Pumulaan program focuses on providing culturally sensitive, appropriate, and relevant education to students in Mangyan Tribe in Mindoro and the Matigsalog Tribe in Mindanao, incorporating values of peace, harmony, and diversity within the education programs. 
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. 
EIU Best Practices Series No. 1: Schools for the Child: Child Sensitive Good Practices in Sri Lankan Schools 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.1 is a research study undertaken to identify positive practices that can foster peace education in post-conflict communities of Sri Lanka. Specifically, three schools are observed to understand how the model of peace education and multiculturalism can be promoted through educator’s creativity, dedication, and vision, curriculum revision, eco-friendly school environment, and use of external and community resources. The study showcases that culturally sensitive and mindful pedagogical practices are needed to generate understanding of peace. 
EIU Best Practices Series No. 3: The Context of Education for a Culture of Peace in Vietnam General Education Schools 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.3 introduces a research study conducted to examine Vietnam’ general educational schools for culture of peace education. Upon assessment of interviews and surveys undertaken by educators and students from five schools, the result indicated that education for culture of peace was practiced through both academics and extracurricular activities. 
EIU Best Practices Series No. 4: Implementation of Civic Approach for Development of Positive School Environment and a Culture of Peace 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.4 is an experimental research conducted by the Information and Research Center to promote culture of peace and teaching and learning outcomes that support positive development of school environment. Three pilot schools in Kazakhstan were analyzed upon implementation of teacher training workshops, instructional materials, and programs in civic and human rights education. 
EIU Best Practices Series No. 21: EIU School-based Initiatives in Bhutan Year of publication: 2010 Author: Rinzin Wangmo 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.21 introduces the case of Yonphula Lower Secondary School in Trashigang, Bhutan, which successfully incorporated EIU principles into the existing curriculum. With the Gross National Happiness (GNH) principle as Bhutan’s educational framework, EIU can fit easily to the academic settings and system. The case highlights activities, such as providing non-formal education for illiterate parents, and counseling services, health programs, and meditation programs to students, in exemplifying how innovative school activities can optimize the GNH framework for the promotion of EIU. 
[Video] Second UNESCO Forum on Global Citizenship Education Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: UNESCO Highlights of the Second UNESCO Forum on Global Citizenship Education (GCED) Building peaceful and sustainable societies: preparing for post-2015 (28-30 January 2015,UNESCO HQ, Paris). The Forum was organized by the Division for Teaching, Learning and Content, Education Sector, UNESCO, with the support of Austria, the Sultanate of Oman and the Republic of Korea, and the UN Secretary-General’s Global Education First Initiative (GEFI). 
EDUCATION A LA CULTURE DE LA PAIX, AUX DROITS HUMAINS, A LA CITOYENNETE, A LA DEMOCRATIE ET A L’INTEGRATION REGIONALE MANUEL DE REFERENCE DE LA CEDEAO A L’USAGE DE LA FORMATRICE / DU FORMATEUR DE FORMATEURS/FORMATRICES Year of publication: 2013 Corporate author: UNESCO Dakar | Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) The manual comprises seven modules dealing with the Culture of Peace and Conflict Management; Human Rights; Civism and Citizenship; Democracy and Good Governance; Gender and Development; Public Health, Environment and Sustainable Development; and Regional Integration. Each module has sub-themes with introductions, reference materials, general objectives to guide the trainer and generic pedagogical tables that are flexible enough to be adapted to available teaching resources in the different ECOWAS countries. It is also suitable and adaptable to the training of teachers involved in both formal and non-formal education delivery at different levels of teaching and learning. The ultimate goal of the Manual is to build a critical mass of ECOWAS citizens equipped with competent skills, not only for cognitive and psycho-motor domains of education, but also affective skills for positive values, attitudes and behaviors that promote peace, tolerance and peaceful co-existence of community citizens. 
Education for a culture of peace, human rights, citizenship, democracy and regional integration: ECOWAS reference manual, for use by trainer of trainers Year of publication: 2013 Corporate author: UNESCO Dakar | Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) The manual comprises seven modules dealing with the Culture of Peace and Conflict Management; Human Rights; Civism and Citizenship; Democracy and Good Governance; Gender and Development; Public Health, Environment and Sustainable Development; and Regional Integration. Each module has sub-themes with introductions, reference materials, general objectives to guide the trainer and generic pedagogical tables that are flexible enough to be adapted to available teaching resources in the different ECOWAS countries. It is also suitable and adaptable to the training of teachers involved in both formal and non-formal education delivery at different levels of teaching and learning. The ultimate goal of the Manual is to build a critical mass of ECOWAS citizens equipped with competent skills, not only for cognitive and psycho-motor domains of education, but also affective skills for positive values, attitudes and behaviors that promote peace, tolerance and peaceful co-existence of community citizens.