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Advocacy kit for promoting multilingual education: including the excluded Year of publication: 2007 Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok Who Can Use This Kit? This kit was prepared for all of those who want to ensure that “Education for All” does, indeed, include everyone! The kit will be especially valuable for policy makers, education practitioners and specialists who want to improve access to and quality of education for those excluded by language. It will also be helpful for speakers of ethnic minority languages who want to improve the education situation in their own communities.This kit is designed to raise awareness on the importance of mother tongue-based multilingual education (MLE). It presents key arguments and facts about MLE and provides important insights about the value and benefits of providing education in learners’ mother tongue. The kit also presents ideas, research findings and concrete examples that you can use to think about your own situation and suggests steps for taking actions to make your school system more responsive to linguistic diversity.The kit is not a definitive textbook, and it will not have an answer for every problem that you might face. To help you as much as possible, at the end of each booklet we have included lists of references. In addition, each booklet contains a glossary of terms and, at the front of each booklet is a one-page summary of its contents.How Can You Use This Kit? This kit contains three main booklets. Each booklet has a designated audience: 1) policy makers, 2) education programme planners and practitioners and 3) community members. Please remember that developing MLE requires contributions from everyone at all levels. For that reason, we encourage you to use all three booklets along with other available resources as you work together to plan, implement and sustain your MLE programmes.This kit can be used in many different ways. For those who are already involved in MLE programmes, you might use these ideas to help you to promote mother tongue instruction and strengthen your programme. Those who are not familiar with multilingual education but want to improve educational access for minority language students might use these booklets to identify specific points that they can investigate and discuss in their own contexts. 
MTB MLE resource kit: Including the excluded: promoting multilingual education Year of publication: 2016 Author: Susan Malone Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok Who Can Use this Resource Kit?This MTB MLE Resource Kit is for people who are committed to the idea that all children have the right to quality education in a language they speak and understand. MTB MLE programmes that are sustained within the formal education system require contributions from all stakeholders, working together and supporting one another. The next three booklets were developed for three specific stakeholder groups: policy makers, programme implementers and community members. These three booklets, with the case studies, provide a “big picture” of successful MTB MLE programmes and suggestions for the roles each group can take as they plan, implement and maintain their programmes. How Can You Use this Resource Kit?Each booklet is organized around key questions about MTB MLE that are frequently asked by policy makers, implementers and community members. Responses to each question include examples of specific activities that are part of successful MTB MLE programmes in a variety of contexts. Working together, stakeholders can identify the specific activities that are best suited for their own situation and make the best use of all available resources. 
Education for developing a global Omani citizen: current practices and challenges Year of publication: 2014 Author: Saif Al-Maamari Corporate author: Redfame Publishing Oman is a developing country which reformed its educational system in 1998 in order to meet the challenges of the 21st century, especially economic challenges. Strength of national identity and developing a sense of global citizenship were among the priorities of the new educational reform. This paper is based on a review of current practices regarding global citizenship education in educational system. The purpose of this theoretical study was to explore the current provision of the aspects of global citizenship education in Omani schools. Specifically, the study attempts to identify the current practices that are implemented by Omani schools to help Omani students to develop a sense of effective global citizenship. The study indicates that Omani education is not nationally centered as it aims to develop students who have global awareness. The study shows employing different approaches to develop a sense of global citizenship, namely, a separate school subject; integrated theme in social studies education, participation in some international initiatives in global citizenship education, and celebrating the international days and decades. L'éducation pour le Développement d'ONU Citoyen Omanais Mondiale: Pratiques et Défis Actuels Year of publication: 2014 Author: Saif Al-Maamari Corporate author: Redfame Publishing Oman est un pays en développement qui a réformé son système éducatif en 1998 dans le but de relever les défis du 21e siècle, en particulier les défis économiques. Force de l'identité nationale et de développer un sentiment de citoyenneté mondiale étaient parmi les priorités de la nouvelle réforme de l'éducation. Cet article est basé sur un examen des pratiques actuelles concernant L'éducation à la citoyenneté Mondiale (ECM) dans le système éducatif. Le but de cette étude théorique était d'explorer la disposition actuelle des aspects de L'éducation à la citoyenneté Mondiale (ECM) dans les écoles omanaises. Plus précisément, l'étude tente d'identifier les pratiques actuelles qui sont mises en œuvre par les écoles omanaises pour aider les étudiants omanais à développer un sentiment de citoyenneté mondiale efficace. L'étude indique que l'éducation omanaise est pas centrée à l'échelle nationale car elle vise à développer chez les élèves qui ont la conscience globale. L'étude montre en utilisant différentes approches pour développer le sens de la citoyenneté mondiale, à savoir, un sujet d'écoles séparées; thème intégré dans l'enseignement des études sociales, la participation à des initiatives internationales en matière d'éducation à la citoyenneté mondiale, et célébrant les jours et les décennies internationales. 
Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan Year of publication: 2015 Author: Dana Burde The publication provides a systematic analysis of the relationship between education and conflict, tracing how different approaches have been applied in Afghanistan as the rationale for aid has shifted from a policy of benign neglect, to an effort to support war, to an effort to mitigate conflict. Using this history as a case study, the book explores how foreign intervention in education can contribute either to conflict or to peace.. Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan Year of publication: 2015 Author: Dana Burde Cette publication est une analyse de la relation entre l'éducation et les conflits, retraçant l’évolution des motifs mobilisés pour justifier le recours à une aide extérieure en Afghanistan, et le passage d’une politique du laissez faire à celle de soutien à l’effort de guerre, puis aux tentatives d’apaisement du conflit. En s’appuyant sur cet exemple, cet ouvrage analyse comment l'intervention étrangère en matière d'éducation peut aussi bien contribuer à la guerre qu’à la paix. Education, Poverty and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection? Year of publication: 2003 Author: Alan B. Krueger | Jitka Maleckova Corporate author: American Economic Association In the authors' view, any connection between poverty, education and terrorism is indirect, complicated and probably quite weak. Instead of viewing terrorism as a direct response to low market opportunities or ignorance, the article suggests it is more accurately viewed as a response to political conditions and long-standing feelings of indignity and frustration that have little to do with economics. Education, Poverty and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection? Year of publication: 2003 Author: Alan B. Krueger | Jitka Maleckova Corporate author: American Economic Association Selon les auteurs, le lien entre la pauvreté, l'éducation et le terrorisme est indirect, compliqué et probablement faible. Au lieu de considérer le terrorisme comme une réaction immédiate au manque d’opportunités d’accéder au marché du travail ou comme résultant de l'ignorance, l'article suggère de considérer le terrorisme comme une réaction à des situations politiques et des sentiments d'indignité et de frustration de longue date, dont le lien avec l'économie est faible. Case Study - Pakistan: Education, Religion and Conflict Year of publication: 2015 Author: Raza Rumi Corporate author: Tony Blair Faith Foundation | McGill University Pakistan is in the midst of crisis. It is threatened by virulent extremist groups and is suffering from a failing education system that is poorly funded and politically manipulated. It promulgates an undefined Islamo-nationalist ideology that lays the foundations for widespread acceptance of ideologically motivated violence. Reforms to the curriculum have been legislated but are badly implemented by the country's politicians; the international community has largely turned a blind eye to these shortcomings. Unless aid and advocacy are specifically focused on far-reaching educational reform that directly tackles extremism, the long-term consequences will be extremely severe. Case Study - Pakistan: Education, Religion and Conflict Year of publication: 2015 Author: Raza Rumi Corporate author: Tony Blair Faith Foundation | McGill University Le Pakistan traverse une crise. Il est menacé par des groupes extrémistes virulents et souffre d'un système éducatif défaillant, mal financé et manipulé politiquement. Il promulgue une idéologie islamo-nationaliste vague qui jette les bases d'une large acceptation de la violence idéologique. Il y a une législation sur les réformes du programme mais celles-ci sont mal appliquées par les politiciens du pays ; la communauté internationale dans son ensemble a fermé les yeux sur ces lacunes. Si l'assistance et le plaidoyer ne sont pas spécifiquement axés sur une vaste réforme de l'éducation abordant directement l'extrémisme, les conséquences à long terme seront extrêmement graves.