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Ensuring Learning Outcomes (SangSaeng no. 46 Fall 2016) Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: APCEIU The 46th issue of SangSaeng, “Ensuring Learning Outcomes,” has been released. With the Education 2030 Agenda emphasizing the role of measuring quality education outcomes, this fall edition of SangSaeng reviews the current assessment systems and introduces the ongoing struggles and endeavors in developing better measuring tools. 3 Director’s Message4 Special ColumnLearn to Live Together: Pillars of Education Start with Learn8 Focus: Ensuring Learning Outcomes8 Preparing Learners for a Different Future: Monitoring Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship in the New Education Era14 Monitoring Knowledge for Better Learning Outcomes: The Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics’ Contribution to Global Citizenship and Its Measurement18 Competences for Democratic Culture: A Council of Europe Project for Teaching and Assessing the Democratic Competence of Student24 From 21st Century Competences to Global Citizenship and Global Competences 28 Special ReportExperiences and Difficulties of a Society: Developing Socio-cultural Skills of Kyrgyzstan Students34 Best Practices34 Embracing Sustainability: You Can Make a Difference39 Student Empowerment through Values in Action (SEVA): Training Students to Express Opinions, Reflect, Critically Evaluate,and Appreciate One’s Own Values and Those of Others44 LetterBe Global with a Compassionate Heart46 Peace in My MemoryFood for Peace in the 21st Century50 APCEIU in Action 
Supporting Early Childhood Development: From Science to Large-Scale Application Year of publication: 2016 Author: The Lancet Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | World Bank | World Health Organization (WHO) This document summarizes the series of articles on Early Childhood Development published by The Lancet in 2016. It presents new scientific evidence that supports interventions and proposes measures to be applied in large-scale child development programs. The series emphasizes "loving care sensitive to the needs of the child", especially up to three years of age, as well as multisectoral interventions that, taking the health sector as a starting point, allow reaching many families and young children through health and nutrition. 
Gender Inequality and Early Childhood Development: A Review of the Linkages Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: Plan International This paper aims to respond to the fact that Early Childhood Development initiatives and programmes, both internal and external, often appear to give limited attention to gender inequality and discrimination. Furthermore, initiatives to promote girls’ rights and gender equality often pay little attention to early childhood, instead focusing on older girls and adolescents. 
Loud and Clear: Effective Language of Instruction Policies for Learning Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: World Bank This paper describes the new World Bank policy approach on language of instruction(LoI), as part of the operationalization of the literacy policy package in support of the Bank’s new learning target. This new approach aims to support progress on language of instruction(LoI) Policies and interventions, as loi-based challenges are identified and addressed in light of each country’s context. 
"Beautiful China, I Am a Doer" Action Plan for Raising Citizens' Awareness of Ecological Civilization (2021-2025) Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Government of the People’s Republic of China The policy was developed by the Chinese government to promote the development of environmental protection concepts among Chinese citizens and to build a system to engage citizens in environmental protection efforts. It includes a detailed action plan and pays particular attention to how to develop ecological awareness and habits among young people through the education system. 
For a Transnational History of Disability: Argentina, Brazil and Spain 20th Century Year of publication: 2022 Author: Gildas Bregain Corporate author: Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) Publications on disability have been mostly limited to health, rehabilitation and education editorials. On the other hand, this new Editorial Series, open to social movements, platforms of struggle, academic groups, collaboration networks, public policy makers, citizens of all of our Latin America and the Caribbean and other latitudes of the global South, combines a multiplicity of edges, perspectives and approaches. This volume comes to occupy a vacant place in critical studies on disability in Latin America, which is to record the struggles for the rights of these people in our region. Introducing a historical problematization in this regard not only has an epistemological and political relevance, but also makes a contribution to the present and to contemporary disability policies. 
Transforming Education Systems: Why, What, and How Year of publication: 2022 Author: Rebecca Winthrop | David Sengeh Corporate author: Brookings Institution This brief is for any education leader or stakeholder who is interested in charting a transformation journey in their country or education jurisdiction such as a state or district. It is also for civil society organisations, funders, researchers, and anyone interested in the topic of national development through education. In it, the authors answer the following three questions and argue for a participatory approach to transformation: Why is education system transformation urgent now? The world is at an inflection point. Climate change, the changing nature of work, increasing conflict and authoritarianism together with the urgency of COVID recovery has made the transformation agenda more critical than ever. What is education system transformation? Education system transformation must entail a fresh review of the goals of your system – are they meeting the moment that we are in, are they tackling inequality and building resilience for a changing world, are they fully context aware, are they owned broadly across society – and then fundamentally positioning all components of your education system to coherently contribute to this shared purpose. How can education system transformation advance in your country or jurisdiction? Three steps are crucial: Purpose (developing a broadly shared vision and purpose), Pedagogy (redesigning the pedagogical core), and Position (positioning and aligning all components of the system to support the pedagogical core and purpose). Deep engagement of educators, families, communities, students, ministry staff, and partners is essential across each of these 3P steps. 
Roadmap for Integrating Global Citizenship and Liberation History in Teaching and Learning in SADC Member States Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: UNESCO The Roadmap for integrating GCED and SALH in teaching and learning in SADC member states is grounded in two visions: Identify common values and learning outcomes that can be advanced by GCED and SALH, with a view of promoting the sense of belonging, solidarity, and regional identity and integration. Guide education planners and practitioners to mobilize the GCED and SALH contents to contribute to the SADC vision of reconciliation, social cohesion, resilience, peace, solidarity, development, and freedom for future generations through promoting an education that equips young people with skills, values, knowledge, behaviours, and attitudes that critically and creatively address today’s local, national, regional, and global challenges through an inclusive lens. The objectives of this Roadmap are to: Provide general guidance and steps for the integration of SALH and GCED in curricula and teaching and learning practices in SADC member states; Provide articulations between the regional and local philosophical concepts and the GCED core values, such as ubuntu, to support a contextualized teaching of GCED values; Support countries to identify priority topics and steps towards integrating GCED and SALH in education policies in a manner that highlights the regional dimensions of liberation history, as well as universal values; Propose learning outcomes and competencies as well as teaching and learning approaches for GCED and SALH; Provide guidance on integration of GCED and SALH in teacher education programmes, as well as possible assessment methods. 
Cross-Sectoral Cooperation for Sustainable Futures Year of publication: 2021 Author: Jana Arbeiter | Maja Bučar Corporate author: Bridge 47 Cross-sectoral cooperation is important to strengthen the coherence and collaboration, as well as mobilization of resources needed for addressing systemic challenges, implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and enabling transformative change. Building or strengthening cross-sectoral multi-stakeholder groups or coalitions within SDG Target 4.7, can support equipping everyone with the knowledge, skills and competencies needed to contribute to a more sustainable and just future.Multi-stakeholder groups or coalitions in support of SDG Target 4.7 on a local, regional and global level are essential mechanisms for promoting and implementing sustainable development. They can enable coherence and collaboration, as well as pooling of expertise and resources needed for co-creation of the relevant policy proposals linked to the implementation of SDG Target 4.7. Building and strengthening multi-stakeholder groups or coalitions require a clear basis for establishing well-defined relationships within the multi-stakeholder groups or coalitions, well-designed structures and operating procedures and strong coordination. But most importantly, they have the potential to combine key stakeholders from relevant sectors of society, which can advocate for the implementation of SDG Target 4.7 and the (co)-creation of appropriate policies that address global justice, sustainability, and key global challenges. This publication identifies the following recommendations for establishing multi-stakeholder groups or coalitions in support of SDG Target 4.7: Multi-stakeholder groups or coalitions in support of SDG Target 4.7 on a local, regional and global level should be established, and resources should be made available for this. Stakeholders wishing to establish multi-stakeholder groups in the context of SDG Target 4.7 should clearly define their main goals and objectives. Stakeholders involved in multi-stakeholder groups in the context of SDG Target 4.7 need to be strategically identified and cover all major societal sectors, including different components of SDG Target 4.7. Coalitions in support of SDG Target 4.7 should place focus on facilitation, active listening, and peer learning opportunities. Inclusive and flexible coordination and leadership should be applied, stressing transparency, accountability and joint commitment to the cause. 
Transformative Education: Bridging Education for Change Year of publication: 2021 Author: Jana Arbeiter | Maja Bučar Corporate author: Bridge 47 This publication suggests that improvements in the areas of coordination, cooperation, awareness raising and capability development are needed, as outlined in the recommendations below. Policies and strategies at national, regional and global level should adopt overarching visions for transformative education in the form of overarching strategies for SDG Target 4.7. Mechanisms for coordination and collaboration between the different components of SDG Target 4.7 should be established at national, regional and global levels. Awareness of the role of transformative education and SDG Target 4.7 in contributing to more just and sustainable futures should be raised jointly between the different components of SDG Target 4.7. Opportunities for capacity building and upskilling of practitioners and learners linked to transformative education should be enabled and created at national, regional and global levels.