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Lifelong Learning in Transformation: Promising Practices in Southeast Asia Year of publication: 2017 Author: Rika Yorozu Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) This report is an outcome of a project on building a lifelong learning agenda in Southeast Asian countries, which aims to address the region’s remaining educational challenges in ensuring ‘inclusive and equitable quality education and promot[ing] lifelong learning opportunities for all’ (Goal 4 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development). By sharing promising policies and practices in implementing integrated lifelong learning from different perspectives, countries can learn from one another and move their visions for lifelong learning fully into practice. The publication documents a variety of promising practices from 11 countries, focusing particularly on the features critical to the promotion of lifelong learning for all; namely, inclusive and gender-responsive teaching and learning practices, recognition of learning outcomes from non-formal and informal learning, collaboration between social and economic development sectors and coherent national government policies and strategies. The report comprises three main sections: a reflection on lifelong learning in international and national documents, a collection of good practice drawn from their national reports, and a set of recommendations for policies and programmes promoting lifelong learning. It is hoped that these recommendations will stimulate discussion and new developments, in both policy and practice, in the region. 
Interrupting Extremism by Creating Educative Turbulence Year of publication: 2014 Author: Lynn Davies Corporate author: Curriculum Inquiry This article begins from the premise that it is important to explore how people unlearn, as well as learn, specifically in terms of extremist or violent attitudes. Three different country examples are given of intergroup encounters that interrupt rigidities in attitudes: working across ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, tackling religious divides in Northern Ireland through shared classes, and initiatives to prevent violent extremism in the United Kingdom. Pedagogical implications of unlearning involve working with the four Ds of deradicalization, debiasing, disengagement and desistence. 
Beyond Bali Education Package Year of publication: 2012 Author: Lily Taylor | Saul Karnovsky The Beyond Bali Project funded by Building Community Resilience (BCR) aims to develop and produce an education resource for secondary school students (years 8/9) on the Bali bombings and the Bali Peace Park. The resource is designed to build social resilience to violent extremism by: - providing students with the skills and tools to critically analyze and challenge violent extremism, its causes and consequences - raising awareness and education on the social impacts of violent extremism - encouraging students to think about how societies can resist the influence of violent extremism - engaging students through activities and discussion about the Bali Peace Park as social resistance to terrorism. 
Transforming Knowledge and Research for Just and Sustainable Futures: Towards a New Social Imaginary for Higher Education (Education, Research and Foresight: Working Papers; No.33, 2024) Year of publication: 2024 Author: Leon Tikly Corporate author: UNESCO The paper considers why it is important to transform knowledge and research for just and sustainable futures and discusses the role of higher education in these transformation processes. The paper sets out how knowledge, research, and knowledge systems can be understood and critiques knowledge hierarchies that have emerged in the context of colonialism, leading to the marginalization of the knowledge systems and languages of the colonized. It is argued that there is a need to create new ecologies of knowledge that value and develop synergies between ‘all of the archives of the world’ and that can revitalize and expand the knowledge commons and contribute to more just and sustainable futures. Higher education has a pivotal role to play in the creation of new ecologies of knowledge and a revitalized knowledge commons through promoting socially and ethically engaged research, the decolonization and reorientation of university curricula and pedagogy to foster sustainable futures, and the democratization of universities to better represent historically marginalized groups. Underpinning this role must be a shift from a Western modernist social imaginary of higher education to one based on a new planetary consciousness. 
Global Education Monitoring Report, 2016: Planet: Education for Environmental Sustainability and Green Growth Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: UNESCO PLANET: Education for environmental sustainability and green growth, a publication taken from the full 2016 Global Education Monitoring Report, explores the knowledge and skills needed for sustainable and inclusive economic growth that does not damage our planet.This publication demonstrates how education can help people understand and respond to environmental issues and climate change. Environmental education can increase green knowledge and build sustainability practices. The publication warns that while education contributes to economic growth, education systems must be careful not to encourage unsustainable lifestyles and all learners must acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development.It also argues that we must continue to learn throughout our lives in order to make production and consumption sustainable, and to provide green skills for green industries. Creating green industries relies on high-skill workers with specific training, yet by 2020 there could be 40 million too few workers with tertiary education relative to demand. Higher education and research should also be oriented towards green innovation and growth; innovation depends on cooperation in higher education and investment in research and development to transform production in vast swaths of the economy.It also recognises that education must change in order to keep up with the changing face of work. Green and transferable skills should be taught in both school and the workplace. The greening of industries requires not only the production of more high-skill workers, but the continued training and education for low and medium skill workers, often on the job. “To ensure the Sustainable Development Goals are implemented, everyone involved needs to think, to work, to organise, to communicate and to report in ways that are completely different from what has been done up till now. Education truly is key to a wide appreciation not just of the SDGs but the new ways of thinking and working that are going to be necessary to fulfil them. So the challenge to all of us is to re-learn, and that does not just apply to educators, but it applies to all of us.” 
Lessons from a Transformative Pedagogy Project for Peace, Resilience, and the Prevention of Violent Extremism: Part I; Country-Level Implementation Year of publication: 2024 Author: Eyerusalem Azmeraw | Quentin Wodon | Eleonora Mura | Kasumi Moritani Corporate author: UNESCO International Institute for Capacity-Building in Africa (IICBA) From 2017 to 2022, UNESCO’s International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA) led a series of projects for peacebuilding and the prevention of violent extremism through education with support from the Government of Japan. This two-part paper draws lessons from the projects. The first part of the paper briefly explains the transformative pedagogy approach that guided project implementation and provides examples of changes that were implemented at the country level under the projects. The analysis is qualitative, with the aim being to outline, through country examples, what can be achieved through such projects. Lessons on factors contributing to impact are also outlined. 
Youth Report 2024: Technology in Education; A Tool on Our Terms! Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO | Global Education Monitoring Report Team | Restless Development The 2024 Youth Report on technology in education is the result of an extensive consultation process in partnership with Restless Development involving +1500 youth and students across 8 regions. The consultations invited participants to reflect on the key challenges and opportunities for the use of technology in education in their regions through the lenses of the recommendations in the global 2023 Global Education Monitoring Report on technology in education: Technology on our terms. The discussions centred on the need for the use of technology in education to be appropriate for national and local contexts and to be equitable and leave no one behind. The report calls for decisions about technology in education to keep learners at the centre when deciding whether the use of technology in education would be appropriate, equitable, evidence-based, and sustainable. Through this report, young people have described what technology on their terms would look like. It concludes with a call to action calling which highlights concrete recommendations that governments can follow to ensure that technology in education is on youth terms. 
Confronting Inequality through GCED: Toward Justice, Inclusion, and Transformation (SangSaeng; No.65, 2025) Year of publication: 2025 Corporate author: APCEIU The 62nd issue of SangSaeng has been published with the theme of “Ethical AI and GCED: Exploring the Expanding Domain of Artificial Intelligence.”AI has never been as pervasive and influential as it is in today’s rapidly changing world. Despite the convenience and cutting-edge technology AI has offered us, it has the potential to pose a threat to humanity. This is where ethics for AI should come forward. In this regard, this issue will lead readers to the alarming side of AI as well as its future developments, focusing on the importance of GCED and AI ethics in tackling any potential problems.Contents03 Editor's Note 04 Special ColumnEmbracing Change to Cultivate Success — Integrating Global Citizenship Education into Tertiary Education / Dendev Badarch08 FOCUS Ethical AI and GCED: Exploring the Expanding Domain of Artificial IntelligenceRole of Ethics in the Era of AI — Protecting and Guiding AI Processes for Humanity to Flourish / Emma Ruttkamp-BloemPaying Attention to AI Ethics — An Avenue for a New Competitive Edge in Business / Myoungshin KimDriving Innovative Education — Balancing Future Possibilities and Ethical Concerns: How GCED Can be Used to Address AI Issues / Angelique Southern 20 Special ReportEmpowering a Climate Generation — From Classrooms to Climate Frontlines : The Transformative Role of Education highlighted at COP28 / Djian Sadadou 22 Best PracticesNavigating an AI Future — Ethical AI and the Importance of Critical Thought / Hannah GrantGLACE Brings the World to a City — Empowering Youth as Global Citizens: Lessons from Navotas City’s Project GLAC / Marco D. MedurandaLowering Eco-Anxiety — Teaching Climate Change Through Media and Information Literacy / Laetitia Legrand 33 GCED YOUTH NETWORKNew Wave of Youth Advocacy — Role of AI in Youth Advocacy and its Ethical Implications to Global Citizenship / Oshan M. Gunathilake and Diego Manrique36 Understanding the Asia Pacific RegionDiscovering Auroville — Where Boundaries Fade, Nature Thrives, and Global Minds Unite / Akanksha Arya 39 Peace in My MemoryHappiness without Violence — Mindanao Peace Forum Celebrates Building a Culture of Peace / Ludivina Borja-DekitPeace Scholar Passes Away Amidst Turbulent Times / Kwang-Hyun KIM 45 Story TimeThe Right Footing — My Life Has Purpose Thanks to Football / Hajar Abulfazl 48 LetterShared Challenges of Global Citizens / Natsuki Nagata 50 APCEIU in Action 
Minutes World Heritage Education: Education in Times of Digital, Sustainable, Inclusive and Fair Transformation Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: University of Alcala | Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) Document obtained from the XVII International and Interuniversity Congress of the Ibero-American Education Meeting. The University of Alcalá (UAH) in Madrid (Spain) and the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) organize the XVII Ibero-American Education Meeting (EIDE 2023) with the purpose of continuing to offer a scientific, rigorous and committed space for discussion and interdisciplinary exchange , interuniversity and international, with the focus on the Ibero-American geographical and cultural context, responding to the need to continue analyzing the educational reality from a global and collaborative perspective, as demanded by all professional and academic fields of education, at a time of great transformation challenges in the digital field, sustainability, inclusion, social justice and interculturality. 
Education for Global Citizenship as a Transformative Methodological Proposal: Reflections and Practical Proposals Year of publication: 2019 Author: Isarel García | Joan Gratacós | Desiderio De Paz | Mercè Gil | Assumta Zapata Corporate author: Oxfam International This publication, the result of the collaborative work of the Network of educators for global citizenship, is a proposal for reflection and practical examples regarding the transformative nature of Education for global citizenship, being essential that for this educational approach that its actions educational activities are aimed at promoting critical thinking, dialogue, collaboration, solidarity and commitment to transform inequalities and promote social justice, equity and sustainable development. The methodological approach, therefore, must also be transformative and the strategies that accompany processes, promote this social transformation. Transformative methodologies are inherent to Education for global citizenship and the methodological processes that contribute to the construction of schools for global citizenship, in our opinion, should be based on three different pillars: promote the transformative dimension of education to build another world possible and necessary, promote a socio-affective approach focused on solidarity and cosmopolitan empathy and promote the construction of a more participatory and integrated curriculum that generates meaning in teachers and students.