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Global Citizenship Education: A Guide for Policymakers Year of publication: 2017 Author: Swee-Hin Toh | Gary Shaw | Danilo Padilla Corporate author: APCEIU In order to assist UNESCO Member States to integrate and strengthen Global Citizenship Education (GCED) in national education policies, strategies and plans to achieve SDG Target 4.7 effectively, the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) has developed and published Global Citizenship Education: A Guide for Policymakers (hereafter referred to as the Guide).The Guide is mainly divided into two parts. Part 1 provides an overview of GCED, including the following three sections: the background to GCED; the rationale for GCED; and the concept of GCED. In Part 2, various selection strategies which allow each country to incorporate GCED into its current education system aligned with its own priorities and context, were divided and suggested into five major policy areas as follow: policy review and development; curriculum review and development; capacity building; knowledge creation; sharing and dissemination; and monitoring and assessment.The Guide was first published in English and Korean and additional translations will be available in the future in other languages, including French and Arabic to provide access to more readers worldwide. We hope that the Guide will provide an opportunity for policymakers and practitioners to share their experiences and insights. 
Rethinking Learning: Exploring Different Pedagogical Approaches to Transform Education for Humanity (The Blue Dot Issue 7, 2018) Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) In the seventh issue of the Blue Dot, we focus on Rethinking Learning. The Issue includes a foreword by the Former Minister of Education of Mali, H.E. Adama Samassékou on how education systems need to be re-looked at to incorporate personalised learning and technology as an enabler and our Cover Story, which focuses on the importance of socio-emotional learning.Additionally, we feature opinions by specialists from academia, research, policymaking and the industry on the need to relook at education systems for the future. Amongst various experts, we hear from Andreas Schleicher, Director of Education and Skills and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary-General at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Anneli Rautiainen from the Finnish National Agency for Education as well as Pratik Mehta, Head of Education & Skills, Microsoft India.Further, we present short blogs from the youth about what future education systems mean to them and we hear from Nobel Laureate, Ms Tawakkol Karman on the importance of education for peace. 
Education on Citizenship and Human Rights Year of publication: 2010 Author: محمد حالي This article presents definitions for the determinants of the concept of education on citizenship, in its three principles, using Morocco as a background, considering that education on citizenship aims at “Developing awareness of the rights and responsibilities, both individual and collective, training on practicing it and that citizenship derives its social function from its contribution to the formation of the human being/citizen who is capable of carrying forward the modernizing and developmental effort of his country, at a time where the citizens’ expectations and the living requirements of today’s world are growing”.The three dimensions of the definition are: 1) the philosophic and value dimension; 2) the legal and political dimension; 3) the social and cultural dimension. In addition, the article deals with the parameters that complement each other in presenting the concept: 1) Education on citizenship with its different definitions; 2) The attributes of the Good Citizen and the declared values in the Moroccan “National Charter of Education and Training” (namely the Islamic values, values of the civil identity, identity values and human rights values); 3) the aims of education on citizenship; 4) the objectives of education on citizenship; 5) The relevant reference capacities; 6) Means and ways of implementing the objectives; 7) the relationship between education on citizenship and the education on human rights. The article concludes by pointing that education on citizenship in practiced through three main channels that synergize and integrate their objectives: the family, the social environment and the school”. 
The Implication of Child Rights Concepts in the Social Education Textbooks of the Upper Primary Schools in Jordan Year of publication: 2012 Author: الكساب، علي عبد الكريم محم Corporate author: Kuwait Society for the Advancement of Arab Children (KSAAC) The purpose of this study is to identify how far are the concepts of child rights included in the Social and National Education textbooks of the the basic education classes. Relevant child rights concepts were monitored and frequencies, percentages, and KroschialWllace test were used. The results showed that child rights came in a sequence of order. Social rights came on top (F=172), followed by religious rights (F=115) and political rights (F=56). The text books with most referencies to child rights concepts were the Civic and National education books of class Basic Education 10.The study recommends promoting child rights by writing relevant books and adding child rehigts concepts to the criteria of authoring civic and national education curriculla and textbooks, possibly in partnership with the Ministry of Education and in cooperation with specialists at the faculties of sciences of education, in order to identify child rights concepts, most suitable for each educational level, with appropriete activities and excercises for children to lern about their implying appropriate into such textbooks for students to learn about their rights. Teachers should be provided with training in order to help children parctice them in reality. 
The Degree of Familiarity with Kindergarten Teachers to Child Rights Principles Contained in the National Curriculum in Jordan, from Interactive Education and Legal Perspective Year of publication: 2016 Author: الزبون، سليم عودة Corporate author: University of Jordan The goal of this research is to detect the extent to which kindergarten teachers are familiar with the principles of the rights of children that are included in the National Curriculum, in Jordan, from the interactive education and legal perspective. The study sample consisted of (53) parameters of the original study population, where the sample was selected on the basis of stratified random sample . The researchers developed a questionnaire for this purpose which included (38) of the child rights and distributed them in four areas: social, cognitive, political and economic, and was verified. The results showed weakness in the familiarity by kindergarten teachers of the principles of the rights of children that are included in the National Curriculum. The researchers concluded with a number of recommendations including: to include in the National Curriculum and teachers' guides to interactive images and activities that illustrate the actual application of the rights of children in everyday situations, and holding training courses for kindergarten teachers on the principles of the rights of the child. 
Analytic Study of Culture of Peace in Children's Stories Issued by State Information Service (SIS) in Egypt Year of publication: 2010 Author: السعيد، نفيسة صلاح الدين محمود Corporate author: Ain Shams University The study investigates the contents of a series of 41 stories in 11 booklets that were published in Cairo by a governmental publishing house as a contribution to the UN's Decade of Culture of Peace and Non-Violence. The study concludes that the stories include the nine concepts (and subconcepts) which together constitute the concept of culture of peace. The nine concepts are: Dialogue, tolerance, coexistence, peace glorification and renouncing of violence, preservation of the environment, peace-building, solidarity, democracy and human rights. Method of the study: descriptive and media survey. 
The Role of Education in Enforcing the Mentality of the Youth Against Terrorism and Extremism Year of publication: 2015 Author: السلطاني، نسرين حمزة عباس Corporate author: University of Babylon Terrorism has become an international phenomenon. It does not relate to a certain region or culture or society or certain religious group. Terrorism is related to social, political factors as a result of the rapid progress. The early years of the twenty first century have witnessed growth of terrorism in Iraq. Many specialists think that those years represent a turning point in the history of terrorism. Actually, terrorism is not limited to western countries but it strikes all Arab counties especially Iraq. All those explosions reflect extremist thought adopted by young people mobilized by Fatwas imported from ideologies foreign to Islamic Teachings that advocate tolerance and accepting the other. Security is not anymore the sole responsibilty of security forces rather all formal and informal institutions of society must be engaged.Next to the family, the school represents the second social environment where young people internalize social and cultural values. Should the school fail to do that society would loose its srcond defence line. Hence, it is necessary to discuss the role of the educational institutions in combatting terrorism and extremism. This study attempts to look at the role of schools in combatting terrorism, violence and extremism in all their contemporary forms, through the following two questions: what is the concept of violence, terrorism and violence? what role for the school in facing this phenomenon? 
Dilemmas in Teaching Human Rights and Democracy between the Current Reality and the Difficulties in Seeking to Spread a Culture of Human Rights Year of publication: 2014 Author: العبيدي، أنسام فائق عبد الرزاق Corporate author: University of Baghdad In the age of information and communication revolution, education as one of life aspects has influenced with that revolution by integrating technology in education, which have become as an important learning tools of the whole educational process . Technology, when used appropriately, can help make science classroom a site of active learning and critical thinking, furthering student inquiry and connections with different materials. It is necessary to develop human rights education programs and materials for discretionary and extracurricular activities as it provide them with the skills and tools so that they are empowered to take action to realize their rights. Human rights education is a critical means of instilling the knowledge skills, attitudes and values that can foster a culture of human rights, improving a shared language around the world of equality, non-discrimination, inclusion respect, dignity and participation that is crucial to the goal of achieving a more peaceful and just global society. 
Developing Education Units in the Light of Democratic Values in the National and Civic Education Course and Its Impact on Political and Civic Participation and Peace Skills on Females Students in High Basic Female Schools in Jordan Year of publication: 2015 Author: حداد، نهلا أمجد Corporate author: Al-Quds Open University This article aims to study the development of education units in the light of democratic values in the National and Civic Education Course and its impact on political and civic participation and peace skills on females students in high basic female schools in the Directorate of Mafraq. For this purpose, the researchers conducted a list of democratic values, and developed three units of teaching in the light of this system. The democratic values that have been relied upon were to develop the civic participation of the tenth grade students, the political participation among the ninth grade students, and the skills of peace among the eighth grade students.Three tests have been prepared and confirmed. Tests were applied before the application of targeted educational units on a sample formed of the eighth grade consists of (87) divided into two groups (46 control and 41 experimental) . The ninth grade sample consists of 74 female students who were divided into two groups (37 control and 37 experimental) , and the tenth grade sample consists of 86 students who were divided into two groups (42 control and 44 experimental) . After processing the data statistically by (ANCOVA) , the results showed a statistically significant difference at the level of significance (a ≤ 0.05) due to the variable of the group in all the tests, and the differences were in favor of the three experimental groups which received the developed units in the three classes. In the light of these results, a number of recommendations are suggested. 
An Evaluation Study of the New School Books in Light of Human Rights Principles and Gender Equality Year of publication: 2010 Author: كاك، مصطفى Corporate author: Conseil Supérieur de l'éducation, de la Formation et de la Recherche Scientifique The study was part of a joint program between the Association of Education on Human Rights in Morocco and the Central Committee for Human Rights at the Ministry of National Education and Higher Education, with the participation of civil organizations active in the fields of human rights and combatting violence against women. The program consisted of reading fifty school books and evaluating them regarding human rights and gender equality. The team started from the specific assumption: Has the situation of the school book actually changed from a single book that is solely concerned with contents to multiple books according to a modern pedagogical engineering that is centered around the teachers’ needs and respecting their mental and linguistic levels and their learning processes, with the objective of developing democratic reactions arising from citizenship values and human rights? The outcomes of the study came in three levels: The image of women in school books, gender equality in some of the fundamental human rights and the principles of human rights that the school book promotes.