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Issue to Action: Mathematics; Teaching Toolkit for a Fairer World Year of publication: 2021 Author: Corinne Angier Corporate author: Scotdec These resources offer maths teams an opportunity to take an applications approach within the BGE phase. You might want to make connections to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and you can find some introductory activities to the goals here.The materials explore 3 broad themes – climate change, gender equality and migration – with 2 sets of activities for each theme supported with a PowerPoint presentation.The lessons and worksheets in the booklet and accompanying PowerPoints are all free to download below. All activities are mapped to ‘Experiences and Outcomes’, benchmarks and core maths skills are highlighter. 
The Role of Education in Addressing Future Challenges Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: Bridge 47 In response to UNESCO’s Futures of Education consultation, Bridge 47 has released the following report on the power that transformative education has to address future challenges, including those linked to inequalities, climate change and health.Through the consultation process UNESCO raises questions about the importance and purpose of education by 2050. In a fast-evolving world, Bridge 47 supports the idea that education should foster the kind of education that helps learners of all ages to become active global citizens and thus contribute to building a more just and sustainable report world for all.The report, ‘The Role of Education in Addressing Future Challenges’, further emphasises the importance of measuring and monitoring the progress towards achieving the transformative vision of education as outlined in Sustainable Development Goal Target 4.7. It is hoped that the overall Future of Education report will encourage a measuring framework for SDG 4.7 that acknowledges the connection between non-formal and formal education as well as supporting dialogue between key actors that the reflect any conceptual shifts within the fields of Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Education. 
The United Nations Matters: Teacher’s Handbook Year of publication: 2012 Corporate author: United Nations Association - UK (UNA-UK) | United Kingdom 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. 
The prospects of development education in African countries: building a critical mass of citizenry for civic engagement Year of publication: 2015 Author: Simon Eten Corporate author: Centre for Global Education (CGE) This article argues that development education is often framed in an African context within notions of national citizenship designed to engender support for public institutions and policies rather than develop critical thinking skills. This limited concept and application of development education often results in public apathy and disengagement from participation in community, national and global development initiatives. The author argues that recourse to the more radical, Freirean conception of development education practice in African states could potentially support more engaged public activism in issues underpinning poverty and injustice locally and globally. The author draws upon his knowledge and experience of the public sector in Ghana and general trends across Africa to propose potentially fertile areas of research that could support more effective DE practice that nurtures enhanced civic engagement. Les perspectives de l'éducation au développement dans les pays africains: la construction d'une masse critique de citoyens pour l'engagement civique Year of publication: 2015 Author: Simon Eten Corporate author: Centre for Global Education (CGE) Cet article soutient que l'éducation au développement est souvent encadrée dans un contexte africain dans les notions de citoyenneté nationale visant à susciter le soutien des institutions et des politiques publiques plutôt que de développer la pensée critique. Ce concept limité et l'application de l'éducation au développement se traduit souvent par l'apathie du public et le désengagement de la participation à la communauté, les initiatives nationales et mondiales de développement. L'auteur fait valoir que le recours à la plus radicale, la conception freirienne de la pratique de l'éducation au développement dans les pays africains pourrait soutenir l'activisme public plus engagé dans les questions qui sous-tendent la pauvreté et de l'injustice localement et globalement. L'auteur puise dans ses connaissances et de l'expérience du secteur public au Ghana et les tendances générales à travers l'Afrique pour proposer des zones potentiellement fertiles de la recherche qui pourrait soutenir la pratique DE plus efficace qui favorise l'engagement civique renforcée. 
Raising Citizens' Awareness Through Development Education: Success Stories Collection Year of publication: 2020 Author: Lur Fernandez Salinas Corporate author: PLATFORMA Development Education and Awareness Raising (DEAR) are natural lines of action for local and regional governments active in development cooperation and tie in perfectly with their territorial strategies.Awareness-raising among citizens, through the action of municipalities and regions, remains a core component of the co-responsibility, solidarity, mutual knowledge and mutual understanding needed to mobilise and unite communities.Discover this Success Stories Collection which aims to showcase concrete, impactful and transformative experiences of local and regional governments and their associations actively engaged in DEAR projects and decentralised cooperation strategies. Sensibiliser les citoyens par l’éducation au développement : Exemples de réussites Year of publication: 2020 Author: Lur Fernandez Salinas Corporate author: PLATFORMA Le programme DEAR constitue une ligne d’action tout à fait naturelle pour les collectivités territoriales actives dans la coopération au développement et s’inscrit parfaitement dans leurs stratégies territoriales.La sensibilisation des citoyens, par l’action des municipalités et régions, reste une composante essentielle de la coresponsabilité, de la solidarité, de la connaissance et de la compréhension mutuelles nécessaires pour mobiliser et fédérer les communautés.Le présent recueil d’histoires de réussite vise à montrer les expériences concrètes, percutantes et transformatrices des collectivités territoriales et de leurs associations activement engagées dans des projets DEAR et des stratégies de coopération décentralisé 
No Education, No Protection: What School Closures Under COVID-19 Mean for Children and Young People in Crisis-Affected Contexts Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) | Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Drawing from research and experience on previous infectious disease outbreaks and an emergent body of work from the current COVID-19 pandemic, this report highlights the primarily negative effects resulting from the combination of sudden school closures and restricted access to and availability of services, social networks, and other protective facilities for children and young people living in crisis-affected contexts. The consequences of school closures on education and child protection can be categorized into three principal areas:1. Loss of learning and impediments to providing inclusive, equitable, quality education2. Negative impact on child well-being and healthy development3. Amplified child protection risks and harms experienced by children and young people 
Asia and the Pacific: SDG Progress Report 2021 Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: UN. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN. ESCAP) This report analyses progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Asia and the Pacific and its five subregions as well as the availability of data. It assesses gaps which must be closed to achieve the goals by 2030. This assessment is designed to ensure the region’s actions remain on target and shortcomings are addressed as they arise. It is a resource for all stakeholders involved in prioritization, planning, implementation and follow-up of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific. 
Private Engagement in Education in Emergencies: Rights and Regulations Year of publication: 2021 Author: Francine Sara Menashy | Zeena Zhakaria Corporate author: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) Efforts to secure inclusive and equitable education for all have prompted calls for greater engagement by the private sector, asserting that businesses and foundations can play significant roles as partners in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4).In recent years, given shortfalls in public financing and the need for urgent responses, private actors have increasingly become involved in various aspects of educational programming for education in emergencies (EiE). This arrangement, however, can produce tensions between private engagement and humanitarian response in education, which need to be addressed and in turn require extra coordination, advocacy and attention. This brief explores some of these tensions and makes recommendations to support the prioritization of safe, equitable, and quality public education for all children and young people affected by crises.INEE supports every young person’s right to education and recognizes the State as the primary duty-bearer of schooling, in alignment with international declarations, frameworks, and legal instruments that assert and protect the right to education.