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Addressing Educational Challenges In the Era of Pandemics (SangSaeng no.55, 2020) Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: APCEIU With the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, the global crisis has further aggravated various multifaceted challenges to humanity. We are forced to prepare for another paradigm shift or, in other words, a “New Normal.” With this in mind, the 55th edition of SangSaeng focuses on “Addressing Educational Challenges in the Era of Pandemics.” Contents03 Editor’s Note04 Special ColumnTowards Sustainability: Implications of Pandemic and How to Create the Future We All Want / Jae C. Choe 08 FOCUS: Addressing Educational Challenges in the Era of Pandemics08 Rethinking Education in the Shadow of the Pandemic / Edward Vickers12 Reimagining Education System to Reduce Social Inequalities / Paul R. Carr16 Reshaping Kenya for Beyond COVID / Jane Wanjiru Nyaga19 Rethinking Human Rights Education in the Pandemic / Abraham Magendzo K.22 Prioritizing GCED in Recovery of Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities / Romina Kasman 26 Best Practices26 Loxo Yakaar: Hands of Hope / Karima Grant and Chakera McIntosh29 Care for Tomorrow Starts Today / Tina Trdin 32 Special ReportReport on the Round Table: “Next Normal” We Make / IGCED, APCEIU 36 Story TimeHow Do You Paint? / Recka Olasiman 38 Peace in My MemoryGive Me Peace on Earth / Libby Giles 41 Understanding the Asia-Pacific RegionWater Heritage in Southeast Asia / Karen Chin Ai Ying 45 GCED Youth NetworkMeaningful Spaces to Exchange and Learn Together / GCED Youth Network Core Group 48 LetterPromoting GCED in Sri Lanka / Deshamanya A.L.S. Abeywickrama 50 APCEIU in Action 
COVID-19 Pandemic and Global Citizenship Education (SangSaeng no.54, 2020) Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: APCEIU Considering the significance of the global pandemic crisis, the 54th edition of SangSaeng focuses on the “COVID-19 Pandemic and Global Citizenship Education.” This issue invites readers to explore how the pandemic has affected the global community and reflect on how we should and can work together to address our common, multifaceted challenges while enhancing global citizenship and solidarity. Contents03 Editor’s Note04 Special Column What Changes Do We Want in the Post-Coronavirus World? / Hyun Mook Lim 08 FOCUS: COVID-19 Pandemic and Global Citizenship Education08 Reflecting on Global Citizenship Education in the Era of the Pandemic / Soon-Yong Pak12 Choosing Our Post-Pandemic World / Ilan Kelman16 Political Economy of COVID-19 and Global Cooperation / Chang-Yup Kim21 Peace in the Time of Global Pandemic / Yonas Adaye Adeto25 The Pandemic Stall of 2020 / Virginia A. Miralao30 Marine Conservation Efforts in Uncertain Times / Kerstin Forsberg35 Plague, Prejudice and Protest: The Role of Education in Pandemic World / Lynn Davies39 Media and Information Literacy Matters in Preparing for Post-Pandemic World / Divina Frau-Meigs 44 GCED Youth NetworkYouth Voices on the COVID-19 Pandemic and a New Work / Diego Manrique, Tshering Zangmo and Zanji Sinkala in collaboration with Hadi Althib 50 APCEIU in Action 
Climate Crisis, Education and Global Citizenship (SangSaeng no.53, 2019) Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: APCEIU In view of the rapidly growing concerns about the climate crisis, the 53rd issue of SangSaeng focuses on how we should respond to the challenge under the theme of “Climate Crisis, Education and Global Citizenship.” Contents 03. Editor’s Note 04. Special Column Reimagining Our Future in Light of the Climate Crisis/Helena Norber-Hodge, 08. Focus 08 Empowering Learners for Climate Action and Transformation /Alexander Leicht 12 Changing Education, Not the Planet /Sun-kyung Lee 16 Power of a Global Classroom/Lynette Shultz and Carrie Karsgaard 19 Sustainability Starts with Teachers/Shepherd Urenje 24. Best Practices 24 Y-Adapt Inspires Youth-led Climate Change Action/ Brigitte Rudram 29 Local Energy Transition, from Imagination to Everyday Life/ Soyoung Kim 32. Story Time Pluto, a Stubborn Planet / Aprilia Sanie 34. Peace in My Memory 34 Global Citizenship Education in a Divided World / Makoto Kobayashi, 37 Clearing Streets of Burkina Faso / Francois Compaore 40. Understanding the Asia and the Pacific Melting Discoveries in Altai Plateau /In Uk Kang 44. GCED Youth Network Youth as the motor for GCED /Diego Manrique and GCED Youth Network 48. Letter The Journey of Making Peace in the Arab World /Khalaf Al'Abri, 50. APCEIU in Action 
Teaching Across Borders: A Guide to Follow-up Activities for APTE Alumni Teachers Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: Korea R. Ministry of Education | APCEIU IntroductionLaunched in 2012, the Asia-Pacific Teacher Exchange for Global Education (APTE) marks its 10th anniversary this year with a solid record of steady growth. The Programme started with only two countries— Mongolia and the Philippines—and has since added five more: Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, and Thailand. Even the COVID-19 pandemic has not impeded the APTE’s development and instead provided the basis for an online form of educational exchange. Over the past decade, more than 2,000 teachers in Korea and the partner countries participated in the APTE and guided numerous students. This was thanks to the unwavering support of teachers who sought dissemination of the value of Global Citizenship Education, a key element of UNESCO’s educational agenda. We express our deepest appreciation to the teachers and students who took part in the APTE. Human ties going beyond national borders are rare and precious. This project has tied many people around the world, with the teachers and students who participated continuing efforts to further consolidate their ties. To assist and facilitate teachers’ efforts toward follow-up activities after participating in the APTE, the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) under the auspices of UNESCO has released these guidelines on follow-up activities. Encouraging all teachers who are determined to continue Global Citizenship Education in the wider world, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to the writers and researchers for their dedication toward the publication of this book. We sincerely hope that these guidelines promote follow-up activities for international education exchange and its sustainability 
GCED: Advocacy, Practice and Awareness Handbook for Teachers Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: APCEIU | UNESCO Bangkok Purpose and scope of the handbookThis handbook is the second in a series of GCED advocacy and awarenessraising publications. The first was the joint publication by APCEIU and UNESCO(2021) titled Global citizenship education: a policymaking awareness and advocacy handbook.This latest handbook aims to raise awareness among teachers in the Asia-Pacific region on GCED and to equip teachers with knowledge about GCED, its importance and how to teach it, using good practices, to enhance learners’ competences at the classroom level, for society’s overall benefit.Recognizing that education policies, strategies and practices in the Asia-Pacific region reflect GCED in diverse ways, this handbook also seeks to provide a common regional understanding of what GCED is. Who can benefit from this handbook?The major beneficiaries of this handbook are teachers, educators and learners. Through explaining what GCED is and its outcomes, this handbook will enable teachers and educators to develop a deeper understanding of the benefits that GCED brings to learners. This handbook will also help teachers to themselves cultivate the necessary values, knowledge, skills and attitudes, and make the required behavioural changes, as one must become a responsible global citizen first in order to empower others to do so.As a practical guide, this handbook also supports teachers to integrate GCED into their teaching. The handbook provides examples of good practices, compiled from the Asia-Pacific region, that teachers can easily adapt for use in their classrooms to boost GCED values, knowledge, skills, attitudes and behavioural changes, among learners of all ages. Resources listed in the annex provide teachers with additional support.Policy-makers and school leaders can also benefit from this handbook; it serves as an additional reference to Global citizenship education: a policymaking awareness and advocacy handbook (APCEIU and UNESCO, 2021); to assist them in understanding what support teachers need in delivering GCED. This guide can also provide insights on how to foster resilience and rebuild education systems so that they are better equipped to deal with future crises. 
The Recommendation on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Sustainable Development: An Explainer Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO This is an explainer brochure of the new UNESCO Recommendation on Education for Peace and Human Rights, International Understanding, Cooperation, Fundamental Freedoms, Global Citizenship and Sustainable Development, which is commonly referred to as the Recommendation on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Sustainable Development, about its purpose, history, content and potential to bring about necessary change. 
Global Citizenship Education in a Digital Age: Teacher Guidelines Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO This book is an essential resource for teachers seeking to understand the critical role that digital citizenship education plays in promoting a more informed, engaged, and responsible global citizenry. While digital technologies have opened up new opportunities for life-long learning, they have also given rise to emerging concerns, notably in relation to the rise of disinformation and hate speech online. Aimed at building the capacities of teachers to prepare learners to act ethically and responsibly in physical and digital environments, these guidelines stress the importance of considering how Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and related knowledge, values, skills and attitudes can be fostered for teaching, learning and engaging for a more sustainable, inclusive, just and peaceful world. 
Revision Process of the 1974 Recommendation concerning Education for International Understanding, Co-operation and Peace and Education relating to Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: Compilation of Member State Comments Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO Adopted in 1974, the Recommendation concerning education for international understanding, co-operation and peace and education relating to human rights and fundamental freedoms is considered a landmark legal instrument that brings together for the first time peace, international understanding, human rights, fundamental freedoms and education. As per Circular letter 4401, the preliminary report and the first draft of the revised 1974 Recommendation were transmitted to Member States for their written comments and observations. These written comments were taken into consideration by the Director-General when preparing the revised second draft of the Recommendation to be discussed at the Intergovernmental Special Committee Meeting (Category II), in view of its submission to the 42nd session of the General Conference in November 2023 and eventual adoption. 
Unmasking Racism: Guidelines for Educational Materials Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO These Guidelines developed by UNESCO provide recommendations on how to combat racism in textbooks and to develop learning materials that are free of prejudice and bias and do not perpetuate stereotypes or legitimize unequal social structures. Through a comprehensive analysis of recent studies of textbooks and other educational materials, the guide also demonstrates how countries around the world address racism and racialization. It increases awareness and improves our understanding of how racism manifests in educational materials, and aims to support education stakeholders to promote just, peaceful and multicultural societies. 
How an SEL Podcast Saved My Carpool Year of publication: 2023 Author: Laura Wheatman Hill Corporate author: Medicinal Media | Committee for Children The Imagine Neighborhood Podcasthttps://www.imagineneighborhood.org/ The Imagine Neighborhood™ podcast helps children and grown-ups grow their social-emotional skills, and talk about the things that matter with the people that matter most.Has your child ever been so angry that they wanted to smoosh something? Have they ever been scared of the babysitter? Have they ever had a hard time calming down? The Imagine Neighborhood is the show for your family. Each episode tells a story that’s amazing, fantastical, and maybe a little bananas, while it tackles the big feelings that come with growing up. And The Imagine Neighborhood gives you and your kids fun activities to do at home, in the car, or anywhere you talk to each other. How an SEL podcast saved my carpool 25 May 2023 (by Laura Wheatman Hill) My kids’ school is 15-20 minutes from our house and there is no bus.I drive my two kids, ages six and nine, and a neighbor, eight, to and from school three days a week and I let them rotate who picks what we listen to every ride. After I had to veto their picks several days in a row because they were testing the limits of what’s appropriate for all parties, even with a “radio edit” version (I’m sorry, but no Eminem for the kindergartner), I found a kid’s podcast that teaches social emotional learning (SEL) called The Imagine Neighborhood.After the first listen, which featured characters like a vampire robot vacuum and a princess dinosaur, and a world containing dangers such as lava, pixies, and an evil hamster, my kindergartner declared, “This is the greatest podcast of all time!” We proceeded to listen to every single episode available over the next few weeks and now play a new episode the minute it drops. Why teach social emotional learning in a podcast?According to Committee for Children, which helps create programs to assist children in developing life skills, including The Imagine Neighborhood, SEL is “the process of developing the self-awareness, self-control, and interpersonal skills that are vital for school, work, and life success.” Research over time shows that kids who have access to SEL interventions have positive developments both academically and socially in the short and long term. However, teaching these skills in a classroom or at home in an academic, abstract way isn’t shown to work to help your child integrate them into their lives. “You need to use stories for social emotional learning because it’s how a child can see another person’s point of view,” says Dr. Cindy Hovington, a neurologist who created Curious Neuron, a community for parents who want to learn more SEL tools, and co- founder of Wondergrade, an app that supports SEL in young children. She says empathy is much easier to convey in a story rather than a lesson because of the back and forth aspect of dialogue and character. “Someone else in the story has a consequence. Through a narrative, the child will understand both sides, how a certain event or action made a character feel and how it made the other person in the story feel,” she says. When it happens to someone else, a child can see it play out without the heightened emotion of being involved, and the empathy piece is easier to identify. The narratives are the magic of The Imagine Neighborhood. They have tapped into the problems of little kids in such a way that addresses many common issues kids face without being too overt, which would cause many nine-year-olds to roll their eyes and beg for Daft Punk. Mia Doces is the vice president of the Committee for Children. Doces says they have designed this balance of story and lesson very carefully. She explains, “Every episode has wild situations, very unique characters, and humor that ranges from slapstick to cultural references to your basic fart joke — all of which keep listeners hooked to the story. But our writers make sure that no matter how crazy things appear on the surface, the story is rooted in universal human experiences and the everyday social-emotional skills we use to navigate our emotions and cope with challenges.” Some episodes that resonated with my carpool, myself included, have been about big worries, boredom, disappointment, and loss. The parents are in on itThe host of the podcast frequently speaks directly to the parents and asks them to tell the child listeners about a time something happened to them like what is happening in the story. My carpool of sassy, smart kids usually avoids listening to what I have to say, but they actually lean in when Scotty asks me to contribute. Parental participation is also an intentional part of the design. Even if schools are teaching SEL skills, Doces says, “school-based SEL works best when kids are also learning these life skills at home with their families.” According to Hovington, “There is a misconception that SEL learning happens on the playground. SEL skill-building happens with the parent. Practice happens on the playground.” She says the best opportunities to learn new SEL skills are not in times of crisis or when problem solving, but on calm car rides home from school or before bed — the exact times we listen to The Imagine Neighborhood. In the future, Hovington says, “When a child comes back from school with a problem, that’s an opportunity for a parent to recreate or recall the story.” This resonates with audiences of The Imagine Neighborhood. Doces says, “We get letters from parents who tell us they refer to certain characters or use certain SEL-based catchphrases from the show as shorthand to help their kids draw parallels between something that’s happening to them in real time and a tool that a character learned on the show.”I haven’t sent a letter (yet), but I quote the show frequently. SEL is good for all of usTurns out, The Imagine Neighborhood, and the skills it teaches isn’t only for kids. SEL wasn’t taught in schools when most of us were kids and Doces says, “when adults listen along with the children, they’re also picking up the SEL techniques we’re sharing, and learning positive phrasing and other tools to empower them to have these family discussions in impactful ways.” Since the kids do have SEL in school, these stories provide a good segue for the students to become the teacher, and to tell us how they talk about their feelings. Parents can use the shared SEL language from curriculums and narratives like The Imagine Neighborhood as a vehicle to foster better communication in the family. Doces says parents don’t have to be masters of SEL, but “when they help children name and process their feelings, and acknowledge and support children’s positive behaviors, they’re teaching their family SEL and building a stronger, kinder future for their families.” We know positive reinforcement is successful and the message of The Imagine Neighborhood is one we can all agree on: be kind to those around you.We were driving a third-grader home from a playdate one day and The Imagine Neighborhood was playing. I heard the friend from the backseat ask, “What is this? Because I like it!” Got another one!