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7th Meeting of UNESCO Category 2 Centres in Education: Meeting Report Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: APCEIU This meeting report provides the summary of the 7th Meeting of UNESCO Category 2 Centres in Education held on 7 November 2023 in Paris, France. It offers an overview of the presentations delivered by Category 2 Centres in Education, outlining their programmes and activities for the upcoming years, specifically for 2024. 
5th UNESCO Forum on Transformative Education for Sustainable Development, Global Citizenship, Health and Well-being (Strand 1) Year of publication: 2021 Author: Shadreck Majwabe | Thomas Greiner | Taka Horio | Niveen Jouhar | Arjen Wals | Lynndina Essack | Didier Jourdan | James O’Higgins Norman | Bolorchimeg Dagva Corporate author: UNESCO | APCEIU Plenary session 1In this first plenary, countries shared their vision, practice and progress underpinning their understanding of “transformative education”. The impact of current practices related to learners’ behavior and the educational system was discussed, highlighting success indicators.Moderator: Ms Krista Pikkat, Director, UNESCO Almaty OfficeMr Shadreck Majwabe, Director of the Department of Curriculum Development and Evaluation, Ministry of Basic Education, BotswanaMr Thomas Greiner, Head of Subdivision, Lifelong Learning, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, GermanyMs Taka Horio, Assistant Secretary-General, the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO & ASP National Coordinator, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, JapanMs Niveen Jouhar, Member of Directorate of Curricula, Ministry of Education, Jordan Concurrent sessions 1Following the plenary session, the concurrent sessions discussed the different components that need to be transformed in the education system, and how to bring about these changes and further advance. Session 1.1 – PolicyModerator: Ms Akpezi Ogbuigwe, Founder, Anpez Centre for Environment and Development, Nigeria Mr Arjen Wals, UNESCO Chair, Social Learning and Sustainable Development, University of Wageningen, Netherlands Ms Anna-Karin Johansson, Swedish National Commission for UNESCO, Ministry of Education, Sweden Mr Felipe de Souza Costa, São Paulo Municipal Secretariat of Education, Brazil Mr El Hadji Gueye, Founder, Banlieu UP, Senegal Session 1.2 – Curricula, pedagogy and assessmentModerator: Mr Yao Ydo, Director, UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)Dr Esther Care, Professor, University of Melbourne, AustraliaMs Lynndina Essack, Senior Education Officer, Department of Education Services, Ministry of Education, SeychellesMr Daehoon Jho, Professor, Sungshin Women's University, Republic of KoreaDr Jinan Karameh Chaya, Principal, Al Manar Modern School (UNESCO Associated Schools Network member), Lebanon Session 1.3 – Learning environmentModerator: Mr Chris Castle, Chief of Section of Education for Health and Well-being, UNESCOProf Didier Jourdan, UNESCO Chair and Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center "Global Health & Education"Prof James O’Higgins Norman, Director of the National Anti-Bullying Centre, the Dublin City University, Ireland & UNESCO Chair on Tackling Bullying in Schools and CyberspaceMs Bolorchimeg Dagva, Adolescents and HIV Specialist, UNICEF, Mongolia Links to Strand 2 & Special session / Strand 3 / Strand 4 
“Can Education Transform Our World?: Global Citizenship Education and the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” Year of publication: 2020 Author: Joel Westheimer Corporate author: Brill This book chapter is taken from the book Grading Goal Four: Tensions, Threats, and Opportunities in the Sustainable Development Goal on Quality Education, which aims to support the immplementation of Sustainable Development Goal 4 by exploreing various tensions, threats, and opportunities. This chapter specifically focuses on the role of eucation in fostering global citizenship and how educational systems and policies can be improved to facilitate creating a sustainable society and contribute to the 2030 SDG Agenda. 
Arts for Transformative Education: A Guide for Teachers from the UNESCO Associated Schools Network Year of publication: 2024 Author: Benjamin Bolden | Sean Corcoran | Tiina Kukkonen | Jeffrey Newberry | Nathan Rickey Corporate author: UNESCO | Canadian Commission for UNESCO UNESCO’s vision of transformative education involves building learners’ capacities and empowering them to take action for a more peaceful and sustainable world. The arts offer tremendous potential for supporting learning that transforms individuals and communities. To fully realize that potential, teachers need to structure and support educational experiences that optimize what students will take away from them. This guide presents the research-informed Arts for Transformative Education model, a pioneering approach and thinking tool for teachers. The model was developed from data provided by over 600 teachers of the UNESCO Associated Schools network from 39 countries. The publication presents Learning Experience Descriptions and Snapshots illustrating how the model functions in real-world projects from around the globe, as well as Guidelines for Teachers outlining a step-by-step process for activating arts learning to empower transformative education. 
Strengthening Social and Emotional Learning in Hybrid Modes of Education: Building Support for Students, Teachers, Schools and Families Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE) This Discussion Paper focuses on the essential role of social and emotional learning (SEL) in the global movement to transform education and amplify its social, economic, environmental and personal impacts in a rapidly changing world. It explores how the mainstreaming of SEL into educational policies and practices can contribute to realizing future visions of education that are flexible, reflective, innovative, and impactful. Specifically, the Paper focuses on six topics that, as a whole, reflect global experiences in integrating and implementing SEL in its various forms both during and in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Its main objective is to animate discussion on how to integrate a SEL dimension in hybrid modes of teaching and learning. This introductory overview presents the overall purpose and scope of the Paper, defines its underlying concepts and introduces the topics brought to this forum through the lenses of a diverse group of educators from Africa, the Arab States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. 
Being and Knowing: Teaching Profile for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: InteRed Document of a pedagogical nature that describes the characteristics of the teaching profile necessary to educate in Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship. Identify what skills are necessary to carry out transformative education that responds to global challenges as proposed by social movements, NGOs and civil society. This publication is the result of collaborative work carried out during the years 2022 and 2023 by a Movement 4.7 team formed for this purpose. 
Transforming Education and Shaping Our Futures Together (SangSaeng no.58, 2022) Corporate author: APCEIU As humanity is facing unprecedented social, economic and environmental challenges, positive changes are necessary. And education plays a key role in adapting and responding to a changing world as it can be the most reliable tool to shape our future into a more inclusive, sustainable, and just world. In this context, SangSaeng No. 58 focuses on “Transforming Education and Shaping Our Futures Together” with the goal of exploring possible alternatives to educational systems and practices. Contents 03 Editor’s Note 04 Special ColumnTransformative Education for Learning to Live Together / Lim Hyun Mook 08 FOCUS: Transforming Education and Shaping Our Futures Together 08 Global Movement to Educate for Peace – Develop Hope by Focusing on an Educational Renaissance that’s Deliberate / Fernando M. Reimers 12 University as the Foundation of Education – Effective Education System Discovers Attributes that Help to Excel / Madhav Das Nalapat 15 Vision for a Feminist, Decolonized Education – Develop Two-accountability Education that Furthers Today’s Standard / Shamah Bulangis 19 Best Practices 19 Best of Both Worlds – Collaborative Approach to Transforming Education / Dailess Banda-Zulu and Sibylle Freiermuth 23 Leading Impactful Transformation in Local Community – Grassroots Level Educational Innovation that Inspires Future Action / IniOluwa Odekunle 26 Special Report 26 Asia-Pacific Education Ministers Call for Responsive Covid-19 Learning Recovery, Transformation of Education Systems – Highlights of the Second Asia-Pacific Regional Education Minister’s Conference (APREMC-II) / Jenelle Babb, Worapot Yodpet, Seek Ling Tan 29 Transforming Education: A Call to Action – Education Stakeholders Gather to Reimagine Education and Revitalize Commitments at the Transforming Education Pre-Summit / Transforming Education Summit Secretariat 32 Story TimeMy Role Model Teacher / Joseph Sandamira 34 Letter OneCambodian Approach Toward Educational Development for Better Future Connectedness, Readiness / Mok Sarom 36 Peace in My MemoryLost and Found Peace in War Times – Defining Secret Puzzle of Peace in War-torn Ukraine / Valeria Moroz 40 Understanding the Asia and the PacificBringing Living Heritage to Asia-Pacific Classrooms – Contextualizing School Activities with Living Heritage Supports Teachers, Improves Learning Outcomes, Safeguards Living Heritage / Duong Bich Hanh and Vanessa Achilles 44 GCED Youth Network Shapers for Today and Tomorrow’s Education – Youth Tackle Educational Topics to Further Develop, Improve, Transform / Diego Manrique 47 Letter TwoSupporting Global Citizenship Education in Kenya / Jane Nyaga 49 APCEIU in Action 
Including Transformative Education in Pre-service Teacher Training: A Guide for Universities and Teacher Training Institutions in the Arab Region Year of publication: 2024 Author: Khalaf Al Abri | Marco Pasqualini Corporate author: UNESCO Beirut Transformative Education (TE), which includes concepts such as Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), is an essential approach to provide learners with the tools to act for more just, peaceful and sustainable societies. Between 2021 and 2023, the experts of the UNESCO Arab Transformative Education Network identified the creation of a course on Transformative Education for teachers’ pre-service training as a key step to (i) provide teachers with the needed skills to promote Transformative Education as part of the national curriculum as well as though their daily teaching practices, and (ii) to support the reform of pedagogies more broadly, by making them more interactive and focused on critical thinking, and thus positively contributing to improving learners’ overall learning outcomes. This guidance document is addressed to all entities in charge of pre-service teacher training (e.g. departments of education within higher education institutions and teacher training institutions) in the Arab region interested in including Transformative Education as part of their programmes. The guidance document particularly supports faculty deans and academia in defining the scope and the key parameters to consider while developing a course on Transformative Education, including defining course objectives, format, content, and pedagogy, as well as choosing the right facilitator(s) to deliver the course. The document also provides useful references to other guides and tools which can further support the reflections around Transformative Education and how it can be concretely applied and promoted at the higher education level. 
An Experimental Study of Constructing Maker Teaching Model (Educational Journal ; Vol.49, No.2) Year of publication: 2021 Author: 沈翠莲 Makers studying at university are the main powerful pioneers for developing innovative knowledge society. This research aimed to construct a feasible model of maker teaching, to explore the differences of learning perception of the maker instructional model, and to develop the subsequent process of product creation. Nonequivalent pretest-posttest designs of the quasi-experimental research was employed. Research participants included 132 college students from three classes of creativity-related courses, who participated a 6-week experiment. They were divided into the experimental group and two control groups. A questionnaire was employed to test their differences of learning perception. Results found that: (a) for the maker instructional model, CEO-I2M2E2-SF, a collaborative constructive relationship should be built between instructor and makers; (b) in terms of the performances of learning perception under the maker instructional model, significant differences were found in the dimensions of creativity, creative problem solving, and maker instructional design; (c) there were educational and marketing values in the subsequent process of product creation by makers. 
Learning Outcomes of Fifth and Sixth Graders in a Computer Course Using a Virtual Reality Website for Learning (Educational Journal ; Vol.48, No.1) Year of publication: 2020 Author: 曹永庆 | 林佳禾 In recent years, the use of virtual reality (VR) in games and teaching has become increasingly popular. The boundless nature of the Web and the uniqueness of multimedia in VR greatly enhance peer interaction as well as the interaction between learners and virtual objects on Webpages.Elementary schoolchildren’s habits of using Webpages depends upon the navigation interface design of the Webpages. Therefore, understanding the effectiveness of schoolchildren’s visual interaction with Webpages will help implement VR into Websites for schoolchildren.The purpose of this experiment was to explore the learning outcomes of 60 Taiwanese fifth and sixth graders in a computer course using VR Webpages. The experiment involved students learning through the tasks set on the VR Web platform “CoSpaces EDU.” The differences in their learning outcomes on the “5C key competencies” (i.e., communication and coordination skills, teamwork capabilities, problem-solving skills, independent thinking capabilities, and creativity) before and after the experiment were compared.Based on the results of expert assessment and students’ self-evaluation, paired-samples t test was conducted to compare the learning outcomes before and after implementing the VR teaching. Results show that the fifth and sixth graders were found to exhibit excellent 5C competencies after the experiment.