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Global Education Magazine No. 13: International #Volunteer Day Year of publication: 2015 Author: Global Education Magazine This year’s International Volunteer Day (IVD) theme, "The world is changing. Are you? Volunteer!" is challenging each and every one of us to be part of implementing the newly launched Global Goals. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a plan of action for ending poverty in all its dimensions, irreversibly, everywhere. Volunteerism, and each one of your volunteer actions, are critical to ensure we “leave no one behind” in this effort.The contribution of volunteers in the new development agenda is two-fold. Volunteerism is a way for us all to be directly involved in achieving sustainable development and peace. At the same time, this essential way of fostering people’s participation makes it a key element for success when striving for sustainability of development. Volunteer organizations can be brokers of civic engagement, connecting institutional initiatives with volunteer action at local, national and global levels. 
Educator Resources from Facing History and Ourselves Facing History and Ourselves fights racism, antisemitism, and prejudice and nurtures democracy through education programmes worldwide, with specific focus on the history of the Holocaust and other examples of genocide and mass violence. Facing History proposes various resources, workshops, seminars and online learning opportunities for educators and students. Ressources éducateur de Face à l'histoire et nous-mêmes « Face à l'histoire et nous-mêmes » lutte contre le racisme, l'antisémitisme et les préjugés et nourrit la démocratie grâce à des programmes d'éducation dans le monde entier, avec un aCECnt particulier sur l'histoire de l'Holocauste et d'autres exemples de génocide et la violence de masse. « Face à l'histoire » propose diverses ressources, des ateliers, des séminaires et des possibilités d'apprentissage en ligne pour les enseignants et les étudiants. 
Think: Power-Shift Activity Teachers Guide for Primary Schools Corporate author: Oxfam GB Linked to Oxfam's GROW campaign, the Food for Thought school resources get young people learning, thinking and taking action for a fairer food system.Through this activity pupils will consider why power is important to change something, and why different people or groups have different amounts of power. They will then consider what a ‘fairer’ food system might look like, and look at examples of what each group can do. 
Think: Power-Shift Activity Teachers Guide for Secondary Schools Corporate author: Oxfam GB Linked to Oxfam's GROW campaign, the Food for Thought school resources get young people learning, thinking and taking action for a fairer food system.Through this activity pupils will consider the different groups within society who are able to create a fairer food system, think about the opinions of each of these groups and the relative power each has to change things. They will plot these out, and think about which group is most important and why. They will then look at examples of what each group can do and consider which are most effective and how they could support such actions. 
The Education We Want: An Advocacy Toolkit Year of publication: 2014 Author: James Edleston | Dan Smith | Sumaya Saluja | David Crone | Chernor Bah | Emily Laurie Corporate author: A World at School | UN Global Education First Initiative - Youth Advocacy Group (YAG) | Plan International Developed by Plan International, A World at School and the Youth Advocacy Group of the Global Education First Initiative, this toolkit was made for and by young people to advocate for quality education.Packed full of ideas, tools and inspiring stories, it helps children and youth to effectively carry out their own advocacy campaign.Although this advocacy toolkit focuses on education, its tips and ideas are applicable to young people advocating for a variety of development and rights issues. 
The Education We Want: Workshop Facilitator Guide For the Advocacy Toolkit Year of publication: 2014 Author: Daniel Smith | James Edleston | Tom Burke | Emily Laurie Corporate author: A World at School | UN Global Education First Initiative - Youth Advocacy Group (YAG) | Plan International This guide is intended as a resource to accompany the ‘Education we want: An Advocacy’. It aims to provide a wide range of workshop activities for those who intend to Understand, Plan or Do their education advocacy using workshop based approaches.Workshops are an effective way of involving others in advocacy. They can support you in carrying out research, drafting a plan and building skills for action.The successful delivery of workshops relies on effective preparation, good facilitation skills and a commitment to support people’s learning and development. 
Ocean Literacy and the IOC: Fostering Ocean-related Education and the Culture of Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Use of Our Blue Planet Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) The general public is not aware of the full extent of the medical, economic, social, political and environmental importance of the sea.Many of us are not aware that our day-to-day actions can have a cumulative effect on the health of the ocean and seas – a necessary resource that must be protected for all life on planet earth to exist.In other words, people lack a sense of ‘Ocean Literacy’ i.e. an understanding of the ocean’s influence on us and our influence on the ocean.In more detail, ocean literacy is more than just educating or informing the public and the marine and maritime stakeholders about the importance of oceans.Ocean literacy, through the use of behavioral change methods and by adopting a system approach, aims at facilitating the creation of an ocean literate society. 
Rewiring the Brain to be Future-ready: Integrating 21st Century Skills in Education Systems Towards Developing Peaceful & Sustainable Societies (The Blue Dot Issue 6, 2017) Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) In the sixth issue of the Blue Dot, we focus on the importance of these 21st century skills for the young. The issue includes a foreword by the Minister of Human Resource Development, Government of India on the importance of inculcating 21st century skills in education systems and our Cover Story, which introduces UNESCO MGIEP’s LIBRE programme that follows an ‘integrated brain’ approach to education.Additionally, we feature opinions by specialists from academia, research and the industry on the lacuna present in existing education systems and the opportunities available to address this gap by introducing socio-emotional skills and inquiry oriented learning into curricula. Amongst various experts, we hear from Ines Kudo and Joan Hartley from The World Bank on the importance of ‘Teaching empathy and compassion in schools’; Prof. K.P. Mohanan on ‘Critical Inquiry and Inquiry oriented education’ and Dr. Marilee Bresciani Ludvik on how mindfulness forms the foundation for cultivating compassion.Further, we present excerpts from a collection of ‘Ask me Anything’ sessions focused on socioemotional skills, hosted on Knowledge Commons, UNESCO MGIEP’s knowledge sharing platform.We have been honoured to have the opportunity to host and learn from experts such as Dr. Richard Davidson, recognised as one of ‘The 100 most influential people in the world’ in 2006 by the Time Magazine and Chade-Meng Tan, currently the Chairman of Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute and Co-chair of One Billion Acts of Peace, which has been nominated eight times for the Nobel Peace Prize. 
One Voice for All: Education Pack Year of publication: 2013 Corporate author: British Council One Voice for All is a set of resources designed to help teachers work on the Connecting Classrooms themes of Rights and Responsibilities and Fairness and Equality through an exploration of human rights and street children. Its focus is the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and it aims to allow learners to develop understanding of the key concepts of global citizenship, universal rights and justice.This resource aims to give young people the opportunity to understand the complexity of the wider world in which they live by exploring inequality and steps to address it.