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The IIEP letter: news and analysis on educational planning and management, vol. 35, no. 1 Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: UNESCO This issue is dedicated to addressing the challenges and opportunities for quality secondary education for all. It addresses the necessary structural and curricular changes secondary education must undergo in order to address long histories of segregation and inequality. Experiences from Latin America illustrate some key takeaways on how to match commitment with meaningful change. 
The National Youth White Paper on Global Citizenship Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research (CGCER) On March 20, 2015, over 400 students from five high schools across Canada, in partnership with the Centre for Global Citizenship Education, The Centre for Global Education and TakingITGlobal, came together to collaborate, through the use of technology, in a Virtual Town Hall to discuss the youth’s vision for Global Citizenship Education. From Alberta to Ontario, downtown Toronto to Yellowknife, the youth of Canada exchanged ideas, debated alternatives, and ultimately created a document that represents their voice on the relationship Canadians should have with the rest of the world. The Virtual Town Hall, an “archetype of grassroots democracy,” (Senator Grant Mitchell) was the culmination of over a month of online teamwork, 2000 hours of student collaboration, over 100 hours of teacher facilitation, and the passion of over 1000 youth to engage in a national conversation and have their voices heard.In the month prior to the Virtual Town Hall, student leaders, systematically chosen from each school to represent Canada’s diverse geographic and demographic population, met on a weekly basis to exchange ideas, work with and listen to experts, and create a common framework. Concurrently, the students were trained to use an arsenal of Web 2.0 tools (YouTube, Twitter, cell phone voting, Google Docs, H.323 Video Conference, discussion boards, blogs, etc.) to collaborate, build consensus, and create community regardless of time or location.Equipped with this knowledge and empowered through online technology, the student leaders facilitated a full-day virtual town hall. In the morning, 400 youth peers engaged in a dialogue with local and international experts. Following this session, the youth participated in breakout groups to address three critical questions: What are our obligations as global citizens? What are the rights and responsibilities that we have? To what extent can well-intentioned global citizenship initiatives reinforce or resist power inequities? What types of policies/practices will enable/facilitate global citizenship? The National Youth White Paper on Global Citizenship, written collaboratively by Canadian students, is the direct result of this full-day, interactive event. The evolution of the document involved equipping leaders with knowledge and technology, having those leaders facilitate a larger conversation among their peers, taking the data generated to their community at large for feedback and direction, and then synthesizing the results in the student white paper. It represents the voices of over one thousand youth, introduced to the complexities of global citizenship education, unified through the power of 21st century technology, and sharing a passion to contribute to the dialogue taking place on the future of Canada and its relationship to the rest of the world. 
Distance Learning Solutions Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO The list of educational applications, platforms and resources below aim to help parents, teachers, schools and school administrators facilitate student learning and provide social care and interaction during periods of school closure. Most of the solutions curated are free and many cater to multiple languages. While these solutions do not carry UNESCO’s explicit endorsement, they tend to have a wide reach, a strong user-base and evidence of impact. They are categorized based on distance learning needs, but most of them offer functionalities across multiple categories. 
Global citizenship education and its implications for curriculum goals at the age of globalization Year of publication: 2010 Author: Shahla Zahabioun | Alireza Yousefy | Mohammad H Yarmohammadian | Narges Keshtiaray Corporate author: Canadian Center of Science and Education As the inevitable process of the 21st century, globalization has affected and altered all aspects of human life including education. Therefore, one of the main tasks of any education system is to identify the features and impacts of such process. Thus, the present study was conducted aiming to discuss and examine global citizenship education and its implications for curriculum goals.This study is firstly defining global citizenship education concept as well as its significance and necessity and then it is going to explain global citizenship education concept and its purposes and implications for curriculum goals. This is an analytical research. The results indicate that global citizen holds peculiar features and requires special education in global aspects. Accordingly, the citizenship education compatible with global standards requires an overview of curriculum goals as one of the most important components of education system 
Learning to Leapfrog: Innovative Pedagogies to Transform Education Year of publication: 2019 Author: David Istance | Alejandro Paniagua | Rebecca Winthrop | Lauren Ziegler Corporate author: Center for Universal Education at Brookings This report follows up on the book “Leapfrogging Inequality: Remaking Education to Help Young People Thrive,” published in 2018 by the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at the Brookings Institution. The book argued the importance of education leapfrogging–creating transformative shifts rather than incremental evolution by harnessing the power of innovation to advance a breadth of skills. The book put forth a framework for leapfrogging that outlined two core elements (teaching and learning, and recognition of learning) and two support elements (people and places, and technology and data).This report focuses on the teaching and learning element of the leapfrog framework, especially on pedagogical approaches and the role of teachers, but draws on the others as relevant. It does not attempt to be exhaustive and does not pretend to address neither all education policy variables, nor critical system factors such as political will and adequate funding, nor demand-side factors such as student and parent support for innovative approaches. 
Global Citizenship Education: Preparing Learners for the Challenges of the 21st Century Year of publication: 2014 Corporate author: UNESCO The United Nations Secretary-General’s Global Education First Initiative (GEFI) has established education as a means to ‘foster global citizenship’ – one of its three priority areas. To support this, UNESCO organized two landmark meetings on GCE in 2013. This publication aims to define the parameters of GCE by using the collective expertise, experience and wisdom of those participants who gathered at these landmark events, and to plan for future action in line with emerging thinking and other ongoing work. The review establishes that GCE has a critical role to play in equipping learners with competencies to deal with the dynamic and interdependent world of the twenty-first century. While GCE has been applied in different ways in different contexts, regions and communities, it has a number of common elements, which include fostering in learners. In formal settings, GCE can be delivered as an integral part of an existing subject (such as civic or citizenship education, social studies, environmental studies, geography or culture), or as an independent subject area. Integrated models appear to be more common. Some less traditional, but at least as effective, pathways for GCE have included the following: the use of information and communication technologies and social media, sport competitions and the use of art and music, and youth-led initiatives employing a wide variety of approaches. Both traditional and new horizons for GCE are profiled in this review. This publication also explores a number of enabling conditions for the promotion and implementation of GCE. These include: the existence of an open environment for universal values, the implementation of transformative pedagogy and support for youth-led initiatives.The review acknowledges that there are a number of ongoing tensions with the concepts of global citizenship and global citizenship education. While these tensions vary, they all point to the fundamental question of how to promote universality (e.g. common and collective identity, interest, participation, duty), while respecting singularity (e.g. individual rights, self-improvement). Some ways forward to resolve these tensions are suggested, whilst maintaining that challenges around theoretical elements of GCE should not undermine its practice. The processes documented in this publication have strengthened partnerships, built coalitions and contributed to improving the evidence base on the theory and practice of global citizenship education. While there are tasks that remain, this foundation bodes well for improving the enabling conditions and the practices highlighted in this review. By preparing learners to fulfil their potential in an increasingly globalized world, we are promoting transformed societies that are also better equipped to deal with the twenty-first century challenges and to seize twenty-first century opportunities. 
The Future of Education and Skills: Education 2030 Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: OECD The aim of OECD’s Education 2030: The Future of Education and Skills project is to support countries to find answers to two far-reaching questions: “What knowledge, skills, attitudes and values will today’s students need to shape and thrive their world in 2030?” and “How can instructional systems develop these knowledge, skills, attitudes and values effectively?” This OECD Education 2030 position paper considers the challenges that young people will face; suggests the importance of the concept of learner agency; proposes an overarching learning framework with transformative competencies; reviews the nature of the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that young people will need; and ends with possible curriculum design principles. It encapsulates the key messages of the project so far. Repositioning and reconceptualizing the curriculum for the effective realization of Sustainable Development Goal Four, for holistic development and sustainable ways of living Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE) The purpose of this discussion paper is two-fold, it is to reposition curriculum at the center of the national and the global development dialogue and to highlight its power to give effect to national and to global aspirational statements on the role of education in holistic development. When well designed and effectively enacted, curriculum determines the quality, inclusiveness and development-relevance of education.Second, is to reconceptualize curriculum as a fundamental force of integration of education systems and as an operational tool for giving effect to policies on lifelong learning. Curriculum leads all core aspects of education that are known to determine quality, inclusion, and relevance such as content, learning, teaching, assessment and the teaching and learning environments among others. Its horizontal and vertical articulation, as well as its articulation across learning settings is what gives effect to lifelong learning policies.This paper therefore seeks to reposition curriculum as an indispensable tool for giving effect to SDG Goal 4. 
Inspiring Global Citizens - An Educator's Guide Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: AGA Khan Foundation Canada This resource is intended for use by teachers of intermediate and secondary school grades to support education about global development and related themes such as global citizenship. The activities included in the resource are designed to assist students in increasing their understanding of the interconnectedness of the world, of the factors contributing to global inequalities, and of some effective and sustainable ways to help reduce global poverty. It is hoped that students will be inspired to take action to make their own contribution to improving lives everywhere. 
A Guide for Gender Equality in Teacher Education Policy and Practices Year of publication: 2015 Author: María C. Arango Restrepo | Esther Corona-Vargas Corporate author: UNESCO Transforming the culture of teacher education institutions and making them gender-sensitive entities is a daunting task. However, it is not an impossible task. Understanding gender and applying gender mainstreaming are critical foundations for fostering social cohesion that goes beyond teacher education institutions and the school. Teachers are increasingly expected to play crucial roles in preparing young people to face the future with confidence, purpose, responsibility and gender sensitivity. Teacher education institutions must be ready to provide the enabling environment and training and continuing education for the development of knowledge, values, skills and gender-responsive practices that the teachers need in the 21st century.This Guide, through its ten Modules, takes the reader through step by step on how gender can be mainstreamed in all areas of teacher education and training: from policy and planning, administration and management, gender-responsive budgeting, social services, the environment, curriculum, pedagogy, research, and to advocacy. Through this Guide, teacher educators are also reminded what teachers must know and be able to do in order to promote gender equality through education. The Modules can be used individually or comprehensively depending on the situation and context of countries.This Guide is dedicated to all teacher educators, whose intellectual rigour and tireless efforts to foster enabling environments for inclusive and gender sensitive education, are indispensable for success in continuing education.