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Preparing teachers for inclusive education in Latin America (Prospect: quarterly review of comparative education) Year of publication: 2011 Author: Denise Vaillant Corporate author: UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE) This article analyzes the current challenges facing inclusive education in Latin America and explores some possible solutions. The author suggests that teachers play a key role in providing education that is inclusive for all. In Latin America, today, however, inclusive education often does not respond to the needs of children and young people, and teachers often finish their professional training without acquiring the skills they need to work with children and young people living in difficult circumstances. Teachers also need incentives to work in remote or difficult geographical areas, and they benefit from national efforts to improve their status, including awards for innovative work. Much remains to be done, but the training of teachers for a more inclusive education system is gradually being incorporated as part of the educational policy agenda in Latin America. 
Critical Interculturality and Anti-racism: Tackling Migration and Diversity With Young People Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: Entreculturas | European Union (EU) Through this guide, educators, teachers, professionals who support youth groups, as well as anyone who works or wants to work with young people on this topic will be able to find useful tools to generate educational spaces from which to build more tolerant societies. It is available in Spanish and English, and in it readers will be able to find key concepts that will help them become familiar with the language and approaches used in matters of migration and diversity, practical tools for working with young groups, as well as self-assessment exercises and reflection questionnaires through which to review their own perspectives on cultural diversity and migration narratives. 
Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers Year of publication: 2011 Author: Carolyn Wilson | Alton Grizzle | Ramon Tuazon | Kwame Akyempong | Chi Kim Cheung Corporate author: UNESCO We live in a world where the quality of information we receive largely determines our choices and actions, including our capacity to enjoy fundamental freedoms and the ability for self-determination and development. This Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers is an important resource for UNESCO Member States and a pioneering publication.First, it is forward looking, drawing on present trends toward the convergence of radio, television, Internet, newspapers, books, digital archives and libraries into one platform. Second, it is specifically designed for integration into the formal teacher education system.UNESCO believes that, ultimately, this curriculum will contribute to innovation and improvement in all levels of education. 
Educational Policies for Attention to Cultural Diversity: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru; volume 1 Year of publication: 2005 Author: Carolina Hirmas R. | Ricardo Hevia R. | Ernesto Treviño | Pablo Marambio V. Corporate author: UNESCO Santiago This publication consists of three volumes. The first is an analysis of how the educational policies of five countries in the region -Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru- address the issue of cultural diversity, both through its legislation and its curricular policies. teacher training and institutional management. The second presents a set of ethnographic studies conducted in these same countries in order to show how the phenomenon of "cultural discrimination" occurs in the daily life of the school, the opposite side of the "cultural pluralism" that the school is called to build. The third volume is a compendium of educational materials on five relevant topics about cultural diversity to be worked with teachers and students in schools. 
Citizenship and Collective Action in Latin America. Recent Trends Year of publication: 2005 Author: Marisa Revilla Blanco The following text intends to analyze those forms of collective action through which citizens have been present in the streets of the region during the last thirty years. It seeks to understand the actors and the conditions of their appearance and continuity; In this way, it is also intended to make a small contribution to the theoretical development of the analysis of social movements in Latin America. 
Gender Justice, Citizenship and Difference in Latin America Year of publication: 2010 Author: Maxine Molyneux This article surveys feminist citizenship practices and scholarship on gender, justice, citizenship and rights in Latin America. Feminism’s critique of patriarchal privilege expressed a modern desire for greater individual freedom and collective recognition, a combination that produced tensions and some inconsistencies in regard to the «difference» question, notably in its encounter with indigenous populations. However, central to feminism’s project was the pursuit of both recognition and redistribution, which achieved greater success in the realm of law and politics than in the distribution of public and private goods. A review of Latin American feminism’s achievements reveals a history of substantial advances but a striking persistence of gender inequality, which provides a rich agenda for further investigation. 
Education and Disability: Analysis of Data from 49 Countries (UIS Information Paper No. 49) Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: UIS Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 calls for “inclusive and quality education for all”. Persons with a disability are among the population groups most likely to suffer from exclusion from education but data that permit an analysis of the links between disability and education remain scarce.This paper examines educational disparities linked to disability based on data from 49 countries and territories for five education indicators: Proportion of 15- to 29-year-olds who ever attended school Out-of-school rate (primary school age, lower secondary school age) Completion rate (primary education, lower secondary education) Mean years of schooling of the population 25 years and older Adult literacy rate (population 15 years and older) 
Global Citizenship in the English Language Classroom Year of publication: 2008 Author: Susan Hillyard | Elena Tarasheva | Clarissa Jordão | Francisco Fogaça | Esperanza Revelo Jiménez | Sabiha Khuram | Vanessa Andreotti | Telma Gimenez Corporate author: British Council This booklet contains a collection of papers on global citizenship in language education around the world. It provides theoretical frameworks and practical applications in different contexts.Following on from Audrey Osler and Hugh Starkey’s 'Citizenship and Language Learning: international perspectives', published in 2005, this collection aims at offering ideas and practical suggestions on how teachers around the world have tackled the teaching of English within a citizenship education perspective. There are seven chapters, from authors working in different parts of the world, such as Argentina, Bulgaria, Brazil, Colombia, and Pakistan.There are five report style chapters that deal with courses, teaching materials, research and curriculum innovation. The two remaining contributions can be seen as proposals for implementation of a global citizenship perspective in English language classrooms.The diverse interpretations teachers of English around the world have been giving to the task of promoting global citizenship in their classrooms are reflected in this collection with understandings that range from a more prescriptive approach to a transformational one. They bring the potential for new approaches to be tried out in different contexts. The aim is to inspire teachers to experiment and evaluate the results. 
Achieving Gender Equality in Education: Don't Forget the Boys (Policy Paper 35) Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: UNESCO Achieving gender equality in and through education is central to meeting the targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. While the emphasis tends to be on the effects of gender norms on girls, this paper puts the spotlight on the less recognized effects of these norms on boys’ schooling, particularly at the secondary level and amongst those from the poorest families. It argues that addressing boys’ disadvantage and disengagement in education is an essential part of a response to the challenge of gender inequality, in education and beyond. 
IBE-UNESCO preparatory report for the 48th ICE on inclusive education Year of publication: 2007 Corporate author: UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE) The International Conference on Education (ICE) is a major international forum for educational policy dialogue among Ministers of Education and other stakeholders (researchers, practitioners, representatives of intergovernmental organizations and NGOs). The ICE is organized by the International Bureau of Education (IBE), the UNESCO institute specialized in assisting Member States in curriculum development to achieve quality Education For All. The IBE Council, composed of 28 UNESCO Member States, has proposed in January 2007 that the 48th ICE session, to be held in Geneva in November 2008, should focus on the theme “Inclusive Education: the Way of the Future”. The 48th ICE will focus on broadening the understanding of the theory and practice of inclusive education while discussing how governments can develop and implement policies on inclusive education. The IBE is hosting a series of regional preparatory workshops dedicated to exploring and advancing inclusive education in preparation for the ICE 2008. The Regional Preparatory Workshop "International Workshop on Inclusive Education, Andean and Southern Cone Regions” was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the 11-14 September 2007. This event was organized by the International Bureau of Education (IBE/UNESCO), the Division for the Promotion of Basic Education (ED/BAS, UNESCO Paris), the Regional Bureau of Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC/UNESCO); University of de San Andrés, Ministry of Science, Technology and Education, in collaboration with the Community of Practice - Southern Cone and Andean Regions; it had the participation of ten countries from the Southern Cone and Andean Regions. This report is based on the workshop’s country reports and presentations on the conception and status of inclusive education in participating countries, and on the ideas proposed by participants on what the next steps should be on how to advance inclusive education policy and implementation in the region.