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The United Nations Matters: Teacher’s Handbook Year of publication: 2012 Corporate author: United Nations Association - UK (UNA-UK) | UK National Commission for UNESCO This resource pack has been created to support Key Stage 3 and 4 Citizenship (England) and Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship (Wales). It is also relevant to Learning for Life and Work (Northern Ireland), One Planet and Sustainable Development (Scotland), as well as Geography; History; Local and Global Citizens; Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education; Politics; and Religious and Moral Education. The pack supports the ‘Global Dimension’ in all parts of the UK.This resource aims to develop students’ awareness and understanding of the United Nations (UN) system and the global issues it tackles. It encompasses five lessons that can either be run as a full scheme of work or used independently. 
Right to Pre-Primary Education: A Global Study Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: UNESCO Early childhood care and education is increasingly recognized as an essential element in realizing a wide range of educational, social and economic rights. Children from vulnerable households and communities stand to gain most from access to quality early learning opportunities. With about 50 per cent of children globally not yet enrolled in pre-primary education, enabling their inclusion remains a central question for education policymakers, stakeholders and parents.This Study provides a global overview and an analysis of the adoption of legal provisions for free and compulsory pre-primary education at national level. By offering a rights-based perspective to the implementation of pre-primary education, it aims to complement existing literature on SDG Target 4.2, which focuses mainly on policy outcomes.The results show that pre-primary education is a well determined and defined right in too few countries. Yet, the benefit of free and compulsory education observed is that children appear to have higher rates of early childhood well-being.In light of the research conducted and its main conclusions, a set of levers to promote the inclusion of early childhood and pre-primary education as a human right within long-term education and development objectives are presented in terms of governance and financing, legal framework, societal expectations, monitoring and evaluation and early childhood development overall. Prioritizing the needs of young children and the fulfilment of their right to free and compulsory pre-primary education is a critical opportunity for governments to make positive differences in children’s lives and to achieve broader national, social and economic goals. 
2030 지속가능개발목표(SDGs)실천 방안 연구: 교육 분야를 중심으로 Year of publication: 2016 Author: 안혜정 | 서예원 | 윤종혁 | 김은영 | 염후남 | 박환보 | 최동주 | 김명진 | 이정화 Corporate author: 한국교육개발원 이 연구는 새천년개발목표(MDGs)의 이행종료와 더불어 향후 2030년까지 국제사회가 함께 성취해야 할 개발목표로 채택된 지속가능개발목표(SDGs) 중 네 번째 목표인 교육 목표(SDG 4)의 전략적 실천방안을 마련하기 위하여 수행되었다. 현 정부는 “ODA 지속 확대 및 모범적･통합적 개발협력 추진”을 국정과제로 삼고, 개도국 소녀교육 및 아프리카 직업/ICT 교육을 포함한 4대 구상을 선정하는 등 교육 분야 개발협력의 중요성과 필요성을 강조한 바 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 우리나라 교육개발협력 사업의 현황과 수행주체별 참여 실태 및 인식 조사를 토대로 실효성 있는 정책방안을 도출하고 SDG 4의 실천 방안을 제시하였다. 
Envision 4.7 Event and Roadmap Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Bridge 47 Envision 4.7 took place in Helsinki in 2019, bringing together 200 education practitioners, civil society representatives and decision makes to create the Envision 4.7 Roadmap, a policy guideline to the future implementation of SDG Target 4.7 in Europe. This video presents the Envision 4.7 story. 
Artificial Intelligence: Media and Information Literacy, Human Rights and Freedom of Expression Year of publication: 2020 Author: Igor Shnurenko | Tatiana Murovana | Ibrahim Kushchu Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) | TheNextMinds The collection of papers “Artificial Intelligence: Media and Information Literacy, Human Rights and Freedom of Expression” continues the UNESCO IITE’s series of publications entitled “Digital Transformation of Education”.The publication describes the fundamentals of artificial intelligence and AI-based technologies, their impact on the modern information and media environment, new challenges in the field of media and information literacy associated with the growing automation of the processes of creating, disseminating and accessing information, the use of AI in decision-making and control systems in various areas. There is a strong focus on the growing risks of reducing individual agency, people’s ability to interpret reality autonomously and to act according to their own agenda.These issues are more relevant now than ever before for education undergoing digital transformation. The publication seeks to contribute to a critical understanding of the digital environment in which learning and teaching unfold, and strategies and tactics for the use of new technologies and the digitalization of educational interactions. 
The United Nations World Water Development Report 2021: Valuing Water Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) The 2021 edition of the United Nations World Water Development Report focuses on valuing water. There is enough water for all provided we use and manage it efficiently. But we don’t. We invest too little, and ineffectively. We use too much water, creating scarcities. Quality is suffering and so is the environment.The value we place on water varies, depending upon who is using it, and why. Value can be a guide to what our goals should be, what actions are needed, and where we should invest. Many of our problems arise because we don’t value water highly enough; all too often water is not valued at all.This report explains various approaches to valuing water for environmental considerations, water-related infrastructure, drinking water, sanitation and hygiene. It looks at valuation issues in food and agriculture, business, industry, energy and financing. And it highlights the perspectives of different value systems and cultures, and associated social and gender-based considerations. 
La coopération Sud-Sud et triangulaire en action Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: UNESCO | UN. Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) La présente publication est le premier rapport de l’UNESCO qui traite de la coopération SudSud et de la coopération triangulaire. Elle brosse un tableau d’ensemble, illustré par des exemples particuliers, des progrès que ces modalités de coopération ont permis d’accomplir pour faciliter la coopération technique, le renforcement des capacités et le partage des connaissances dans les domaines de compétence de l’UNESCO, et ouvre la voie à de plus amples efforts en la matière. 
Guidelines to Strengthen the Right to Education in National Frameworks Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: UNESCO These Guidelines aim to strengthen national frameworks by assisting countries and stakeholders in conducting an assessment of the compatibility of their national education legal and policy framework with international standard-setting instruments on the right to education, and in light of SDG 4 commitments. These Guidelines provide a hands-on approach aiming to assist in the review of national education legal and policy frameworks in view of: Developing practical knowledge on the right to education based on the Right to education handbook and supporting capacity development Providing operational tools to assess the status of the right to education at country level and its compatibility with international and regional human rights obligations and international commitments (notably SDG 4) Identifying legal and policy gaps in education at country level and resulting challenges Making recommendations for the full alignment of national constitutions, legislation , singular and policies with international standards and provisions Providing insights on how to implement the recommendations in view of necessary reforms. 
STEM Education for Girls and Women: Breaking Barriers and Exploring Gender Inequality in Asia Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields are considered catalysts for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Yet, particularly for STEM fields, girls and women, for a multitude of social, cultural and psychological reasons, engage and participate at a lower rate than boys and men. This research collection aims to highlight the contextual barriers that girls and women face in STEM education and careers and offer concrete examples of interventions that successfully encourage participation of girls and women in STEM. These eight case studies from across Asia explore both the barriers and the achievements in SDG 4 and SDG 5, and give context-specific analysis of different aspects of gender disparities in the respective countries. 
A Study on the Monitoring Framework of GCED in South Korea Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: APCEIU The purpose of this study is to establish a feasible monitoring system for the implementation of Global Citizenship Education (GCED) in South Korea that can both align itself with the global indicator (SDG 4.7.1) and reflect the domestic context and feasibility. The study further builds upon previous studies carried out by the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU). Particularly, it aims to refine and validate the GCED indicator system for domestic monitoring as proposed in the previous studies, which are also in line with SDG 4.7.1, the global indicator to monitor the mainstreaming of GCED/ESD. To this end, the study involved a Delphi survey and expert consultation to build the refined list and classification of GCED related thematic areas and keywords contextualized in Korea, and aligned these with global indicators so that it could establish a set of sub-indicators for the South Korean context. Then, it pilot-tested the sub-indicators by codifying and statistically analyzing key policy documents and the curricula of Teacher Education Institutes (TEIs) to validate the sub-indicators and to examine the extent to which GCED is mainstreamed in the given domains of the Korean context. Case analyses with focused interviews for some TEI curricula were also added to enrich the study. Lastly, the study draws key implications and proposes some recommendations for the establishment of a feasible and sustainable GCED monitoring system in South Korea. Considering the importance of national input in initiating the SDG agenda, the research concluded with a proposal on how to manage the global citizenship indicators in South Korea.