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[Summary] Education for People and Planet: Creating sustainable Futures for All, Global Education Monitoring Report, 2016; Summary Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: UNESCO Education for People and Planet: Creating Sustainable Futures for All explores the complex relationship between education and the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, covering six fundamental pillars – Planet, Prosperity, People, Peace, Place and Partnerships. This report shows that education will not deliver its full potential unless participation rates increase dramatically and sustainable development guides education system reform. It also warns of the destructive impact that climate change, conflict, unsustainable consumption and the increasing gap between rich and poor have on education. A huge transformation is needed if we are to create sustainable futures for all. L'Education pour les peuples et la planète: créer des avenirs durables pour tous, résumé du rapport mondial de suivi sur l'éducation, 2016 Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: UNESCO The GEM Report provides an authoritative account of how education is the most vital input for every dimension of sustainable development. Better education leads to greater prosperity, improved agriculture, better health outcomes, less violence, more gender equality, higher social capital and an improved natural environment. Education is key to helping people around the world understand why sustainable development is such a vital concept for our common future. Education gives us the key tools – economic, social, technological, even ethical – to take on the SDGs and to achieve them. These facts are spelled out in exquisite and unusual detail throughout the report. Yet the report also emphasizes the remarkable gaps between where the world stands today on education and where it has promised to arrive as of 2030. Образование в интересах людей и планеты: ПОСТОЕНИЕ УСТОЙЧИВОГО БУДУЩЕГО ДЛЯВСЕХ, РЕЗЮМЕ ВСЕМИРНОГО ДОКЛАДА ПО МОНИТОРИНГУ ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ, 2016 Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: UNESCO The GEM Report provides an authoritative account of how education is the most vital input for every dimension of sustainable development. Better education leads to greater prosperity, improved agriculture, better health outcomes, less violence, more gender equality, higher social capital and an improved natural environment. Education is key to helping people around the world understand why sustainable development is such a vital concept for our common future. Education gives us the key tools – economic, social, technological, even ethical – to take on the SDGs and to achieve them. These facts are spelled out in exquisite and unusual detail throughout the report. Yet the report also emphasizes the remarkable gaps between where the world stands today on education and where it has promised to arrive as of 2030. 
My Hero Is You: How Kids Can Fight COVID-19 Year of publication: 2020 Author: Helen Patuck Corporate author: Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) A new story book that aims to help children understand and come to terms with COVID-19 has been produced by a collaboration of more than 50 organizations working in the humanitarian sector. With the help of a fantasy creature, Ario explains how children can protect themselves, their families and friends from coronavirus and how to manage difficult emotions when confronted with a new and rapidly changing reality. Mon héroïne, c’est toi: Comment combattre la COVID-19 quand on est un enfant Year of publication: 2020 Author: Helen Patuck Corporate author: Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Un novel livre qui a pour but d’aider les enfants à comprendre et à y faire face a été publié par plus d’une cinquantaine d’organisations actives dans le secteur humanitaire. Ario, une créature fantastique, comment les enfants peuvent se protéger et protéger leurs proches et leurs amis du coronavirus et comment ils peuvent gérer les émotions complexes qui s’emparent d’eux lorsqu’ils sont confrontés à une réalité nouvelle qui évolue rapidement. 
التقرير العالمي لرصد التعليم ٢٠١٦ - التعليم من أجل الناس والكوكب: بناء مستقبل مستدام للجميع Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: UNESCO | Global Education Monitoring Report Team يستند هذا التقرير العالمي لرصد التعليم الذي أصدرته اليونسكو إلى تجربة وخبرة التقارير العالمية السابقة لرصد التعليم للجميع، كما تناط به مهمة جديدة وهي تقييم التقدم الذي يحرزه التعليم في إطار جدول أعمال 2030. وهذا التقرير العالمي لرصد التعليم لعام 2016، وهو الأول من هذه السلسلة التي ستتواصل على مدى 15 عاماً، يستكشف العلاقة المعقدة بين التعليم والجوانب الأخرى للتنمية المستدامة، إلى جانب رصد الآثار المترتبة على الهدف 4 للتنمية المستدامة. ويبين أن التعليم لن يجود بكامل إمكاناته لدفع العالم إلى الأمام ما لم تتحسن معدلات الالتحاق بالمدارس تحسُّناً كبيراً، ويصبح التعلم عملية متواصلة مدى الحياة، وتتماهى نُظم التعليم تماماً مع التنمية المستدامة. 
Kindness: The Force That Will Help Us Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (The Blue Dot Issue 11, 2020) Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) In the eleventh issue of The Blue Dot, we focus on ‘Kindness’ – as the force that will help us achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, towards making the world more peaceful and sustainable – a better place to live in the future for our children. We hear from Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, Minister of Human Resource Development, Government of India on ‘The Need for Kindness and Compassion – Embodying the values of Mahatma Gandhi’, experts such as Zoran Josipovic on the neuroscience behind kindness; Michael Karlin and Brendran Ozawa-De Silve on the science and theory behind kindness, and from educators (Vicki Zakrzewski and John-Tyler Binfet) on how kindness can be practiced in our classrooms.Our cover story on ‘Kindness – the force to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals’ discusses the biology of kindness, how kindness can help us achieve the SDGs and Kindness and SDGs and the Youth. Further, we have a hand-picked collection of youth stories on kindness, extracted from the 7,300+ stories we have from 120 countries around the world as part of UNESCO MGIEP’s #KindnessMatters for the SDGs youth campaign. 
Policy Brief: Education for Sustainable Development in Central Asia Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: UNESCO Almaty Education for Sustainable Development(ESD) is crucial to reaching all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Both ESD and Global Citizenship Education (GCED) are explicitly stated in the seventh target of SDG4 and promoted by UNESCO as two complimentary approaches. This requires teaching and learning objectives that enable learners to acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values for sustainable development as part of cognitive, socio-emotional and behavioural domains. This policy brief explores the challenges, promising practices, and policy recommendations when it comes to mainstreaming ESD in Central Asia’s education systems. Аналитическая записка: Образование в интересах устойчивого развития в Центральной Азии Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: UNESCO Almaty ОУР имеет решающее значение для достижения всех установленных 17 ЦУР. Как ОУР, так и Образование в духе глобальной гражданственности (ОГГ) непосредственно указаны в седьмой задаче ЦУР 4 как два взаимодополняющих подхода. Для этого перед преподаванием и обучением необходимо ставить задачи, которые позволяют учащимся приобретать знания, навыки, подходы и ценности для устойчивого развития в рамках когнитивных, социальноэмоциональных и поведенческих аспектов. В настоящей аналитической записке излагаются проблемы, примеры применения многообещающих практик и рекомендации по внедрению ОУР в системы образования стран Центральной Азии. 
Young Children’s Citizenship Education in Canada: Background, Content and Values; Based on the Analysis of Early Learning Guidelines in Alberta, British Columbia and Nova Scotia Year of publication: 2019 Author: XU Peng Corporate author: Primary and Secondary Education in Foreign Countries Citizenship education for young children has been growingly emphasized by western countries. With the influence of global policy discourses, curriculum reform in early childhood education and studies of young children’s citizenship, citizenship education has become a key aspect in Canadian early childhood curriculum. Based on recent studies, this research forms a theoretical framework for citizenship education, which covers four dimensions of citizenship (political education, social education, subjectivity education and civic practice education). The early learning frameworks in Alberta, British Columbia and Nova Scotia are analyzed through thematic analysis. In general, citizenship education for young children in these three provinces reveal the following features: emphasizing young children’s rights and responsibilities, and advocating young children’s subject positions as citizens; the traditional citizenship is being changed and young children’s participation is highlighted as the root of democracy; young children’s citizenship lies in multiple discursive fields with indigenous perspective emerging.