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Out-of-School Children and Adolescents: Left Behind on the Road to Learning Opportunities for All Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok | UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) This document shows the most recent data from UIS (2017) on the rates and numbers of out-of-school children and adolescents since 2000, first globally and then within this region, examining common characteristics these young people share to provide insights into which groups are more likely to find themselves excluded from national education systems. The focus then turns to a closer examination of the obstacles out-of-school children and adolescents face in this regard and introduces educational programmes that can help them overcome these challenges. URL:http://www.flexlearnstrategies.net/out-of-school-children-and-adolescents-left-behind-on-the-road-to-learning-opportunities-for-all-2/ 
Education and Training in a Changing Word: What Skills Do We Need? Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok What skills do learners need in today’s world? While academic skills have often been the focus of education systems, other skills that help us to better learn to live together and prepare us for the world of work must not be underestimated. This video highlights key messages on the importance of these skills, such as critical thinking, creativity, teamwork and empathy among many others as we enter a new era for Education 2030: towards inclusive and quality education and lifelong learning for all. 
Building Back Better: Youth, Power and Planet Year of publication: 2020 Author: Valerie Duffy | Leo Gilmartin | Eva Janssens | Dermot O’Brien Corporate author: National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) This toolkit explores the issue of power and helps you make links to the Sustainable Development Goals.It is designed for global educators, youth workers, development education practitioners, trainers, climate activists, changemakers of all shapes and sizes but in particular those working with the current generation of young people. 
Learning About Human Rights in the Primary School Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: Amnesty International UK This booklet from Amnesty International UK provides a set of 10 interactive lessons for primary schools. It helps provide pupils with an understanding of their own human rights and the values and attitudes that underpin them. It will help to foster attitudes of respect and an appreciation of the uniqueness of each individual. Pupils will also develop skills to enable them to take action to defend human rights. 
Ten Clues for Rethinking Curriculum Year of publication: 2021 Author: Renato Opertti Corporate author: UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE) This discussion document highlights the urgency of rethinking curriculum in light of reinforcing the commitments of the Education 2030 Agenda on learning, disruptive systemic worldwide societal changes, and crucially, the profound transformation of education and education systems post Covid-19. Curriculum is always at the core of giving effect to social aspirations and ideals on the why, what, how, when, and where of teaching, learning, and assessing. We propose a series of 10 interconnected clues to deepen on the systemic and holistic understanding of curriculum as contributing to lay foundations for a better, sustainable and fair future. These clues are: understanding the new generations; combatting factors related to vulnerability; reinforcing understanding between school and families; deepening glo-local education; enhancing the focus on the person; promoting synergies among values; valuing diversity; focusing on education that enhances freedom; moving toward hybrid modes of education; and inspiring affection for educators. 
Global Education Monitoring Report, 2021, Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia: Inclusion and Education; All Means All Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Global Education Monitoring Report Team | European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education | Network of Education Policy Centers Prepared by the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, in partnership with the European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education and the Network of Education Policy Centers, the regional report on inclusion and education in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia offers a deep dive into the core challenges and key solutions. The region is working hard to overcome a legacy, whereby children with disabilities attended special schools, once wrongly regarded as an effective solution, segregated by type of disability, if not fully excluded from education.The report draws on in-depth profiles of 30 education systems in the region. It also presents the additional risks to inclusion now posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Building on the 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report, it documents barriers facing learners, particularly where multiple disadvantages intersect. Its recommendations provide a systematic framework for identifying and dismantling these barriers, according to the principle that ‘every learner matters and matters equally’. 
Humanistic Futures of Learning: Perspectives from UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Networks Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO UNESCO’s Futures of Education initiative aims to rethink education and shape the future. The initiative is catalyzing a global debate on how knowledge, education and learning need to be reimagined in a world of increasing complexity, uncertainty and precarity. This publication presents the first curated input to the Futures of Education initiative from the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme, which now represents an extensive global network of more than 800 higher education institutions in over 115 countries. It features think pieces that highlight key dimensions to be considered in re-visioning and re-purposing education for the future of humanity and the planet. The collection of the pieces calls for greater focus on a number of critical areas such as: The role of culture in strengthening social and environmental sustainability; the values and attitudes that are needed to shape future generations; the importance of both robust public education, as well as of other learning spaces; the need to strengthen human creativity and capability in the digital era, as well as the role of higher education in generating the knowledge and driving the innovation required to transform our world. 
Mapping of Media Literacy Practices and Actions in EU-28 Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: European Audiovisual Observatory | Council of Europe The European Audiovisual Observatory provides the first major mapping of media literacy initiatives in Europe. A detailed analysis of the main trends is based on a selection of 547 projects imprelemented across EU member states.The authors found that initiatives to develop 'critical thinking' were the most prevalent, followed by 'media use' covering projects which aim to improve our ability to search, find and navigate and use media content and services.Other major findings include the very active role played by civil society with 'extra-curricular projects aimed at 'teens and older students' as the main target demographic for media literacy projects.The study is accompanied by a wealth of background media literacy research contained in its 4 annexes, including detailed national summaries, summaries of the 547 featured projects supplemented by 145 detailed case studies. 
‘Hate Speech’ Explained: A Toolkit Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: ARTICLE 19 In this toolkit, ARTICLE 19 provides a guide to identifying ’hate speech‘ and how effectively counter it, while protecting the rights to freedom of expression and equality. It responds to a growing demand for clear guidance on identifying “hate speech,” and for responding to the challenges ‘hate speech’ poses within a human rights framework.The toolkit is guided by the principle that coordinated and focused action taken to promote the rights to freedom of expression and equality is essential for fostering a tolerant, pluralistic and diverse democratic society in which all human rights can be realised for all people. 
Issue to Action: Mathematics; Teaching Toolkit for a Fairer World Year of publication: 2021 Author: Corinne Angier Corporate author: Scotdec | European Union (EU) Current global issues provide a rich and real life context for applying what is learned in Maths. How can we hold informed issues on such issues as inequality, climate change or migration without critically engaging with the statistics behind them? Maths has a key role to play in helping us to analyse the numbers, but also to understand how and why these numbers can be manipulated to suit different agendas.The materials in this resource have been tested in Scottish classrooms. They focus on climate change, gender equality and migration.