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Social and Emotional Learning and Soft Skills: USAID Education Policy Brief Year of publication: 2019 Author: Kalene Resler | Anjuli Shivshanker | Samantha Alvis | Chris Capacci-Carneal | Melissa Chiappetta | Lauren Greubel | Julie Hanson Swanson | Ashley Henderson | Josh Josa | Laura Lartigue | Rebeca Martinez | Leah Maxson | Olga Merchan | Yolande Miller-Grandvaux | Sandy Oleksy-Ojikutu | Rebecca Pagel | Nancy Taggart | Nina Weisenhorn | Wendy Wheaton Corporate author: United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Both the 2018 USG Strategy on International Basic Education and the 2018 USAID Education Policy emphasize the importance of social and emotional skills or soft skills in assuring the long-term success of children and youth. Through the Strategy and Policy, USAID is providing new opportunities to systematically design, measure, implement, and understand the impact of programs that build social and emotional skills or soft skills for children and youth.To support USAID staff and implementing partners in this work, this brief: Provides an introductory understanding of what USAID means by the terms “social and emotional skills” and “soft skills” and how to communicate about them. Specifies the desired outcomes and quality standards for programming that teach social and emotional skills or soft skills. Identifies areas in which evidence and best practices still have gaps, and areas in which we should consider investing in further learning. 
Confronting White Nationalism in Schools: A Toolkit Year of publication: 2019 Author: Nora Flanagan | Jessica Acee | Lindsay Schubiner Corporate author: Western States Center This toolkit shows strategies to counter white nationalist organizing in schools through sample scenarios that schools frequently encounter. It also offers advice for parents, students, teachers, school administrators, and the wider community. Many resources currently exist that address diversity, inclusion, and bullying in schools; a few of them are listed in the resources section. This toolkit is specifically focused on responding to white nationalist targeting and recruitment of students. 
Promoting inclusive teacher education: Introduction Year of publication: 2013 Author: Ian Kaplan | Ingrid Lewis Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok ‘Promoting Inclusive Teacher Education’ is a series of five advocacy guides. The guides discuss challenges and barriers to inclusive education in different areas of teacher education and offer related strategies and solutions for effective advocacy towards more inclusive practices. The series begins with this introductory guide. It provides an overview of inclusive teacher education and of what advocacy means in this context. It also provides an introduction to the topics covered in the four other guides in the series. These are ‘Policy’, ‘Curriculum’, ‘Materials’, and ‘Methodology’.Advocacy Guide 1: Introduction – This introductory guide begins by providing a brief introduction to inclusive education. Readers should not, however, see this introductory guide as their only guide for understanding inclusive education. It is assumed that advocates will either have existing knowledge of inclusive education or will refer to other more comprehensive sources of information to learn about the concept. This guide goes on to explain the benefits of integrating awareness and understanding of inclusive education throughout pre-service teacher education. Finally, it provides a practical introductory guide to advocacy. 
Do All Students Have Equal Opportunities to Learn Global and Intercultural Skills at School? (PISA in Focus; No.109) Year of publication: 2020 Author: Tarek Mostafa Corporate author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Many education systems seek to create an open, diverse and tolerant society, as education can play a significant role in countering racial, ethnic and national prejudice among children and adolescents. Education for living in an interconnected and diverse world could also contribute to forming generations of citizens who care about global and intercultural issues and who are able and willing to take action for sustainable development and collective well-being.In its 2018 assessment, PISA assessed the competences needed to live in an interconnected and diverse world. Global competence is defined in PISA 2018 as a multi-dimensional capacity that encompasses the ability to: 1) examine issues of local, global and cultural significance; 2) understand and appreciate the perspectives and worldviews of others; 3) engage in open, appropriate and effective interactions across cultures; and 4) take action for collective well-being and sustainable development. This PISA in Focus examines the equity of the learning opportunities for global and intercultural skills. 
Minding Our Minds during COVID-19: Helping School Going Children Manage Their Mental Health Year of publication: 2020 Author: Huma Masood | Cynthia Saxena Corporate author: UNESCO New Delhi This guide provides an outline of how teachers and parents can address the issue of mental health amongst students. The sections in this guide cover basic information about coronavirus, explanation of anxiety in school going children, as well as ways by which students can take care of their mental health during this crisis. The sub-sections of the guide comprise guidelines outlining the duties and responsibilities that teachers and parents/ caregivers must follow to ensure students’ mental health is not negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, sub-sections of the guide provide activities and exercises that teachers and parents can utilize to engage children with to ensure their wellbeing during these difficult times. 
BRIGHTS Course Curriculum Year of publication: 2017 Author: Federica Funghi | Francesca Vannucchi Corporate author: Brights Project | European Union (EU) | European Commission This document presents the organization of the course to be delivered in the framework of the BRIGHTS project by specifying its diverse phases, the objectives and the learning outcomes, the kind of contents to be issued and how the participants (Teachers and Trainers working with youth) will be involved. 
The Concept of Religion and Citizenship in Modern Country (Yatfakroon Season 3 Episode 22) Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: Alghad TV The emergence of Islam took a qualitative leap in political life in the Arabian Peninsula, as the new religion succeeded in dismantling tribal structures and changing class concepts based on narrow affiliations in favor of the concept of the homeland, which equates everyone in rights and duties. This was clearly demonstrated in the Medina document that organized the relationship between Muslims, Jews and others, as they are all a nation without the people, and in spite of this, some still call for non-Muslims to be considered second-class citizens, with no jurisdiction or equality with them in Muslim countries. This contradicts the foundations on which the modern nation state was established, considering Religion is for God and the homeland for all! The same question arises: Can the concept of the state be based on religious considerations that exclude the other and ignore his existence? 
Identity, Altruism and Cross-Cultural Issues Year of publication: 2020 Author: Muhammad Yakin This book chapter discusses issues of diversity, diversity and difference. It is exposed to approaches to individuality, identity and coexistence. In this article, the questioning of the concepts of identity and altruism and the relationship of one to the other seeks to address the manifestations of the transmission of paradigm in the fields of social sciences in general, and the field of anthropology in particular, in the direction of consolidating the foundations of the "multi-site anthropology" approach. 
Digital Citizenship Education Handbook Year of publication: 2019 Author: Janice Richardson | Elizabeth Milovidov Corporate author: Council of Europe Digital citizenship and engagement involves a wide range of activities, from creating, consuming, sharing, playing and socialising, to investigating, communicating, learning and working. Competent digital citizens are able to respond to new and everyday challenges related to learning, work, employability, leisure, inclusion and participation in society, respecting human rights and intercultural differences.This Digital citizenship education handbook is designed to help educators and other interested adults understand and deal with them. It builds on the Council of Europe’s Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture and the achievements of our longstanding Education for Democratic Citizenship programme, and complements the Internet literacy handbook as part of a coherent approach to educating citizens for the society of the future. 
School Polylingual Education in Kazakhstan (Turkic-Russian, Turkic-English, Turkis-Russian-English) Year of publication: 2015 Author: Dzhusupov M. This article deals with a problem of bilingual and polylingual education at school, lyceum and college of Turkic Republic of CIS on the illustration of Kazakhstan; it is drawn an analogy (parallel) between modern polylingual education of — Soviet period; active ingress of English language in a system of school polylingual education has been analyzed; the domination of Russian language in polylingual educational process has been proved, it is determined an educational status of Russian language not as adoptive, but as obligatory general subject at school and in the institute of higher education and educational status of English language as foreign, i.e. as an alternative (optional) subject.