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The Emergence of Global Citizenship Education in Colombia: Lessons Learned From Existing Education Policy (Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education; Vol. 50, No. 6) Year of publication: 2019 Author: Jana De Poorter | Nicolás Aguilar-Forero Corporate author: Taylor & Francis Colombia has joined the international movement of countries which, under the impulse of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), are looking to integrate global citizenship education (GCED) into their educational system. However, being a recently emerging initiative, the characteristics and possible effects of GCED have not been discussed sufficiently in academia, nor among policy makers. This paper presents a critical discourse analysis of the most recent antecedents of GCED to be found in Colombian education policy. It thereby contributes to the national and international debate surrounding the integration of GCED in contexts that differ from those of Western and ‘developed’ countries, which have been the main focus of GCED research and interventions to date. It is argued that, in the case of Colombia, educational initiatives that are based on critical approaches to GCED should be recuperated and strengthened, since these initiatives provide powerful clues for a truly transformative integration of GCED in the country. 
Global Citizenship Education: Critical and International Perspectives Year of publication: 2020 Author: Abdeljalil Akkari | Kathrine Maleq Corporate author: Springer Nature | Swiss National Science Foundation This open access book takes a critical and international perspective to the mainstreaming of the Global Citizenship Concept and analyses the key issues regarding global citizenship education across the world. In that respect, it addresses a pressing need to provide further conceptual input and to open global citizenship agendas to diversity and indigeneity.Social and political changes brought by globalisation, migration and technological advances of the 21st century have generated a rise in the popularity of the utopian and philosophical idea of global citizenship. In response to the challenges of today’s globalised and interconnected world, such as inequality, human rights violations and poverty, global citizenship education has been invoked as a means of preparing youth for an inclusive and sustainable world.In recent years, the development of global citizenship education and the building of students’ global citizenship competencies have become a focal point in global agendas for education, international educational assessments and international organisations. However, the concept of global citizenship education still remains highly contested and subject to multiple interpretations, and its operationalisation in national educational policies proves to be challenging.This volume aims to contribute to the debate, question the relevancy of global citizenship education’s policy objectives and to enhance understanding of local perspectives, ideologies, conceptions and issues related to citizenship education on a local, national and global level. To this end, the book provides a comprehensive and geographically based overview of the challenges citizenship education faces in a rapidly changing global world through the lens of diversity and inclusiveness. 
Basic Elements of Forgiveness and Reconciliation Theory Year of publication: 2018 Author: Leonel Narváez Gómez Corporate author: Fundación para la Reconciliación This text presents the theoretical bases for forgiveness and reconciliation that support the pedagogy and actions of the Foundation for Reconcilation. Elementos básicos de la teoría del Perdón y la Reconciliación Year of publication: 2018 Author: Leonel Narváez Gómez Corporate author: Fundación para la Reconciliación En este texto se presentan las bases teóricas para el perdón y la reconciliación que sustentan la pedagogía y acciones de la Fundación para la Reconcliación. 
Initial Teacher Education in Citizenship in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis of Six Countries Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO Santiago This document reports on a study of initial teacher education in citizenship education in Latin America undertaken as an initiative of the OREALC-UNESCO Regional Strategy on Teacher Policies. Its purpose is to examine citizenship education in the teacher education curricula of six countries in the region –Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru – researching the general contents of the programs, their organization, and the topics covered, and analyzing teacher preparation in this crucial dimension of the formative experience provided. La formación inicial docente en educación para la ciudadanía en América Latina: Análisis comparado de seis casos nacionales Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO Santiago El presente informe da cuenta de un estudio impulsado por la Estrategia Regional sobre Políticas Docentes de OREALC-UNESCO, acerca de la Formación Inicial Docente en educación para la ciudadanía en América Latina. Su propósito es examinar la presencia de la educación ciudadana en el currículum de la formación de docentes de seis países de la Región –Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, México y Perú-, interrogando acerca de qué contenidos, organizados en qué forma, y cubriendo qué temáticas, caracterizan la preparación de maestros y maestras en esta crucial dimensión de la experiencia formativa que provee la escolaridad. 
International Literacy Day: Background Paper on 'Youth and Adult Literacy in the Time of COVID-19; Impacts and Revelations' Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO Specially prepared on the occasion of International Literacy Day 2020, this background paper illustrates the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on youth and adult literacy, based on the limited information that is currently available. It provides five regional snapshots and identifies preliminary lessons learned thus far, while aiming to inspire continued reflection and subsequent action. It also makes the case for the ongoing importance of advancing youth and adult literacy, a priority that was already neglected even before the pandemic but which deserves all our attention. ILD 2020 thus seeks to trigger reimaginations of literacy teaching and learning in the COVID-19 crisis and beyond, with a particular focus on the role of educators. 
Arab Sustainable Development Report 2020 Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) The 2030 Agenda calls for transformative change and paradigm shifts. Mobilizing domestic and external resources is a pressing challenge in the Arab region, and the pace of efforts on the SDGs must accelerate. However, transformative change not only requires financial resources and an acceleration of efforts but, above all, demands a shift in orientation and approach towards policy integration, environmental sustainability, and universal human rights with their emphasis on equality, justice, inclusion, fundamental freedoms and participatory politics.The story of the SDGs in the Arab region, therefore, is also a story of human rights, gender equality, sustainability and integrated development. The gravity of the task, and the scale of the ambition, are greater than measuring progress at goal, target and indicator level. Five years into the era of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs, the present report is a reminder that the starting point for implementation and the horizon for achievement must be aligned for change to be transformative. It is only through the alignment of policies and other interventions with the overarching framework of the 2030 Agenda that the region, and the world, can hope to achieve the 2030 Agenda. How close, or how far, the Arab region is from this alignment is the story the present report aims to tell. 
Annual Report 2019: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) This report shows how, in 2019, UIL worked to fulfil its mission, with a focus on youth and adults and a special emphasis on UNESCO’s priority areas of Africa and gender equality. UIL’s vision is for all children, young people and adults to benefit from quality lifelong learning opportunities, within the framework of sustainable development and peace. We promote lifelong learning as the leading educational paradigm for inclusive and sustainable learning societies in the context of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which provides an ambitious set of goals and targets for Member States that together form a coherent, universal framework of reference for our activities. Working to this framework, and recognizing lifelong learning’s important transversal role not only with respect to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 on education but across all 17 SDGs, UIL has made an impact across a range of fronts, including in the areas of policy advice, capacity development, research, monitoring, and networking and advocacy. Rapport annuel 2019: Institut de l’UNESCO pour l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) Ce rapport décrit la façon dont l’Institut a opéré en 2019 pour remplir sa mission en concentrant ses activités sur les jeunes et les adultes, et en mettant particulièrement l’accent sur les domaines prioritaires de l’UNESCO que sont l’Afrique et l’égalité des genres. L’UIL nourrit la vision d’un monde où tous les enfants, tous les jeunes et tous les adultes bénéficient d’offres d’apprentissage de qualité tout au long de leur vie, dans le cadre d’un développement durable et dans un monde en paix. Nous assurons la promotion de l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie en tant que paradigme éducatif majeur de sociétés apprenantes inclusives et durables dans le contexte du Programme de développement durable des Nations unies à l’horizon 2030. Ce programme fournit aux États membres une série d’objectifs et de cibles ambitieux qui, dans leur ensemble, constituent un cadre de référence universel et cohérent pour nos activités. Œuvrant à la réalisation de ce cadre et reconnaissant le rôle important de l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie, non seulement dans l’optique de l’Objectif de développement durable 4 (ODD 4) sur l’éducation, mais aussi, de façon plus générale pour réaliser les 17 ODD, l’UIL s’est engagé sur différents terrains tels que la formulation des politiques et leur mise en œuvre, le développement des capacités, la recherche, le pilotage et suivi ainsi que la mise en réseau et le plaidoyer.