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Unmasking Racism: Guidelines for Educational Materials Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO These Guidelines developed by UNESCO provide recommendations on how to combat racism in textbooks and to develop learning materials that are free of prejudice and bias and do not perpetuate stereotypes or legitimize unequal social structures. Through a comprehensive analysis of recent studies of textbooks and other educational materials, the guide also demonstrates how countries around the world address racism and racialization. It increases awareness and improves our understanding of how racism manifests in educational materials, and aims to support education stakeholders to promote just, peaceful and multicultural societies. 
Fighting Racism and Discrimination: A UNESCO Toolkit Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO Globally, 1 in 5 people have experienced discrimination on at least one of the grounds prohibited under international human rights law. Despite action around the world to end hate and combat discrimination, our societies continue to struggle. Institutionalised and structural racism remains a significant challenge with societies only beginning to come to terms with the harsh realities of historical legacies of inequality. Regardless of the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement following the death of George Floyd and increased discussion, policies tackling the legacies of historical racism as well as contemporary racism remain limited. Arguments on the ethics of collecting racial and ethnicity data persist, making measurement of racism and discrimination all the more challenging and leading to difficulties in fully comprehending this issue. However, with impact ranging from education to housing to income to criminal justice, these issues cannot wait. Recognising the magnitude of this challenge and responding to the urgent call for action – the Global Call against Racism – by our Member States, UNESCO has developed the UNESCO Anti-Racism Toolkit. Within the pages of this guide, you will find core concepts, good practices from around the world, practical exercises, and more. A tool designed to support policy-makers in developing anti-racist legislation, it is a first step to tackling the historical and structural racism within our societies. 
Including Transformative Education in Pre-service Teacher Training: A Guide for Universities and Teacher Training Institutions in the Arab Region Year of publication: 2024 Author: Khalaf Al Abri | Marco Pasqualini Corporate author: UNESCO Beirut Transformative Education (TE), which includes concepts such as Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), is an essential approach to provide learners with the tools to act for more just, peaceful and sustainable societies. Between 2021 and 2023, the experts of the UNESCO Arab Transformative Education Network identified the creation of a course on Transformative Education for teachers’ pre-service training as a key step to (i) provide teachers with the needed skills to promote Transformative Education as part of the national curriculum as well as though their daily teaching practices, and (ii) to support the reform of pedagogies more broadly, by making them more interactive and focused on critical thinking, and thus positively contributing to improving learners’ overall learning outcomes. This guidance document is addressed to all entities in charge of pre-service teacher training (e.g. departments of education within higher education institutions and teacher training institutions) in the Arab region interested in including Transformative Education as part of their programmes. The guidance document particularly supports faculty deans and academia in defining the scope and the key parameters to consider while developing a course on Transformative Education, including defining course objectives, format, content, and pedagogy, as well as choosing the right facilitator(s) to deliver the course. The document also provides useful references to other guides and tools which can further support the reflections around Transformative Education and how it can be concretely applied and promoted at the higher education level. 
Global Citizenship Education: A Handbook for Parents, Community and Learners in Asia-Pacific Year of publication: 2023 Author: Darla K. Deardorff | Seek Ling Tan Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok | APCEIU This handbook aspires to engage and involve parents, caregivers and the community to join the mission of developing every learner into a global citizen. To achieve this, parents, caregivers and the community will need to be empowered with the necessary GCED knowledge and skills too. In this handbook, GCED related concepts are introduced, alongside adaptable step-by-step action plans and best practices collected across the Asia-Pacific region to support parents and the community to take action in developing GCED competences in learners. 
From Access to Empowerment: Operational Tools to Advance Gender Equality in and Through Education Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: UNESCO This toolkit has been developed to strengthen individual and institutional capacity to integrate gender equality into education programmes in an effective manner. It has been prepared for all UNESCO Education Sector staff, including those at Headquarters, in Field/Regional/Cluster Offices and in Institutes as well as for implementing partners. This toolkit provides orientation and operational tools to meaningfully integrate gender into all education programmes. The first part provides a short introduction to key concepts on gender equality in and through education and an overview on how gender equality in education links to UNESCO’s vision and internationally agreed objectives. The second part provides practical guidance on how to mainstream gender equality into an education programme, how to design gender-transformative programmes and finally, how to monitor and evaluate gender results in education programmes. 
Creating Change: Advocacy Toolkit for Education in Emergencies Year of publication: 2021 Author: Eleanor Gall Corporate author: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) The INEE Advocacy Toolkit aims to make it easier and faster for INEE members to find the tools they need to strengthen their vital work. It pulls together resources from across the education, humanitarian, and development sectors and presents them as clear, concise lists. The resources listed have been selected in response to a survey of INEE members’ needs, and in acknowledgement of the diverse emergency contexts in which INEE members work. While this resource is aimed primarily at INEE members working at a national level, we hope it will be helpful to any organization or individual who advocates for—or wants to advocate for —EiE at a local, regional, or global level. It is by no means an exhaustive list, but it does provide extensive options, ideas, and inspiration for impactful, sustainable, advocacy that can help to ensure a quality, safe, andrelevant education for all who live in emergency and crisis contexts. 
Communities in Action: Lifelong Learning for Sustainable Development Year of publication: 2015 Author: Fumiko Noguchi | Jose Roberto Guevara | Rika Yorozu Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) This handbook identifies principles and policy mechanisms to advance communitybased learning for sustainable development, based on the commitments endorsed by the participants of the Kominkan-CLC International Conference on Education for Sustainable Development, which was held in Okayama City, Japan, in October 2014. To inform policymakers and practitioners new to this field, the handbook clarifies the international vision and goals for sustainable development and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and identifies the potential contributions of community-based learning centres and organizations. It documents both policy and practice from different regions and concludes with a summary of principles and policy support mechanisms. 
Does It Sound Familiar to You? : Family Guide Year of publication: 2015 Author: Francisca Morales | Catalina Moya Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) This guide presents practical activities to work with families around different topics of interest, such as the expression of emotions, conflict resolution, child development, children's rights and the media, among others. 
Technical Guidelines for the Return to Educational Establishments Year of publication: 2020 Author: Ximena Bugueño Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) This document presents the guiding principles of the return to schools process and recommendations to prepare as an educational team. It offers guidelines to call for participation and communication with families and students, organize learning, reception and socio-emotional support activities in mixed modality, and to implement measures that care for the health of the community. 
Learning About Emotions: Manual of Emotional Education Year of publication: 2012 Author: Monica Calderón Rodríguez | Gabriela González Mora | Patricia Salazar Segnini | Stephanie Washburn Madrigal Corporate author: Central America Coordination Bureau for Education and Culture (CECC) | Central American Integration System This is an emotional education manual for teacher training that aims to provide innovative strategies that complement the daily work carried out in the classroom, strengthening the subject of emotions and their education.