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Bref portrait historique des courants et débats dans le champ des études ethniques en éducation au Québec (Cahiers de recherche sociologique; no. 64) Year of publication: 2018 Author: Maryse Potvin Corporate author: Athéna éditions Les enjeux liés au pluralisme, à l’équité et à l’inclusion font partie des grandes priorités du XXIe siècle pour les systèmes éducatifs. Ces enjeux ont donné lieu, au Québec comme ailleurs, à un champ spécifique de politiques et d’interventions publiques, de débats et de recherches depuis 50 ans. Cet article retrace l’apparition relativement « successive » de courants - multiculturel ou interculturel, antiraciste, à la citoyenneté et aux droits, inclusif, encore tous présents dans la sociologie de l’éducation aujourd’hui – et montre comment ils ont marqué (et prédominé davantage dans) les discours normatifs et le champ des études ethniques en éducation au Québec au cours de trois périodes différentes : les années 1970-1980, 1990-2000, 2010 à nos jours. Cet article esquisse donc à grands traits les principaux « courants d’idées » et débats dans le champ en éducation au Québec au cours de ces trois périodes, et resitue ces débats dans leurs liens à la fois avec les principaux enjeux de société ou événements marquants du contexte québécois et avec l’évolution des politiques publiques dans ce champ. 
Online Antisemitism: A Toolkit for Civil Society Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) | B’nai B’rith International | UNESCO This guide looks to build literacy among Jewish professionals, lay leaders and community members at large – as well as wider allies from across civil society – to tackle antisemitism online. Recognising the enormous capacity for positive action that the digital space offers, it aims to consolidate knowledge and provide a wide range of policy and community avenues for action.The guide provides an assessment of the online antisemitism threat landscape, an overview of existing policy responses on an international and national level across a range of European countries, and, importantly, a broad set of recommendations for engagement with governments, platforms and within communities to address these issues. 
North/South Relationships in the International Trade Union Movement: The Weight of History and the Rigidity of Structures (Quebec Journal of International Law; Special Issue, Nov.) Year of publication: 2012 Author: Sid Ahmed Soussi Corporate author: Société québécoise de droit international (SQDI) The following article submits a critical analysis regarding the evolution of North-South relations within the International Trade Union Movement, specifically concerning the creation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) in 2006. Currently faced with a growing transnational outsourcing phenomenon, affecting collective conflict and labor regulation in Africa as well as South and Central America, the ITUC draws attention to new issues. In terms of collective action, numerous South and Central American unions favor local alliances that extend to non-unionized actors. They criticize the ITUC’s ignorance of local resistance as well as its preference for global action that is carried out through continental and institutional strategies. Divergences among members of the International Trade Union Movement are not only the result of internal power struggles that surfaced within the organization in 2006, during the Vienna exchanges. These differences owe their existence to history, notably to rapports of domination that the postcolonial period renewed and brought forward in other forms. In addition to history, declining notions of collective action resulting from differential policies also contribute to divergences. These policies are similar to the relationship between society and the State that Northern and Southern organizations base on separate premises. Here, the analysis is depicted by Quebec’s central labor organizations’ and the international methods of cooperation they employ. Several studies underline the emergence of new forms of representation and collective action lead by a number of South and Central American labor organizations. Even though, in some cases, these new types of representation take on traditional forms of unionism such as marked political involvement and organizational instability, they surface within atypical strategies. These unusual approaches include the coexistence of socially-generated unionism and community unionism, as well as the mobilization of local resistance movements through coalitions that extend to other community actors with prioritized issues (oversized informal economies and a compressed public sector). The analysis explores the underlying dynamic that, based on recurring local experiences, produces consequences on a global scale. Les rapports nord/sud dans le mouvement syndical international: Le poids de l’histoire et la rigidité des structures (Revue québécoise de droit international; Special Issue, Nov.) Year of publication: 2012 Author: Sid Ahmed Soussi Corporate author: Société québécoise de droit international (SQDI) Cet article propose une analyse critique de l’évolution des rapports Nord-Sud dans le mouvement syndical international (MSI) dans le contexte de la restructuration amorcée avec la fondation, en 2006, de la Confédération Syndicale Internationale (CSI). Elle explicite les nouveaux enjeux de ces rapports, face au phénomène croissant de l’externalisation transnationale du travail qui affecte la conflictualité collective et la régulation du travail en Afrique et en Amérique latine. Nombre de syndicats du Sud, privilégiant, en termes d’action collective, des alliances locales élargies à des acteurs non syndicaux, reprochent à la CSI d’ignorer les résistances locales et de leur préférer une action globale portée par des stratégies continentales et institutionnelles. Ces divergences ne résultent pas seulement des rapports de force internes au MSI depuis les assises de Vienne en 2006. Elles doivent leur persistance, d’abord au poids de l’Histoire, lestée notamment par des rapports de domination que la période postcoloniale a continué de reconduire sous d’autres formes. Il y a ensuite ces conceptions de l’action collective qui se déclinent à travers des rapports au politique différenciés notamment par des rapports à la société civile et à l’État que les organisations syndicales du Nord et leurs alter ego du Sud fondent sur des prémisses distinctes. Cette analyse est illustrée ici par le cas des modes de coopération internationale des centrales syndicales du Québec. Plusieurs recherches soulignent l’émergence de nouvelles formes de représentation et d’action collectives menées par nombre d’organisations syndicales du Sud. Même si elles reprennent parfois les figures traditionnelles du syndicalisme dans ces régions – engagement politique marqué, instabilité des structures – ces formes apparaissent comme des stratégies atypiques : cohabitation entre syndicalisme de transformation sociale et community unionism, mobilisation de résistances locales par des coalitions élargies à d’autres acteurs de la société civile autour d’enjeux prioritaires (économies informelles surdimensionnées et secteurs publics compressés). Cette analyse fait le point sur cette dynamique à l’oeuvre qui, à partir de la récurrence de ces expériences locales, produit des conséquences à l’échelle globale. 
Communities in Action: Lifelong Learning for Sustainable Development Year of publication: 2015 Author: Fumiko Noguchi | Jose Roberto Guevara | Rika Yorozu Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) This handbook identifies principles and policy mechanisms to advance communitybased learning for sustainable development, based on the commitments endorsed by the participants of the Kominkan-CLC International Conference on Education for Sustainable Development, which was held in Okayama City, Japan, in October 2014. To inform policymakers and practitioners new to this field, the handbook clarifies the international vision and goals for sustainable development and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and identifies the potential contributions of community-based learning centres and organizations. It documents both policy and practice from different regions and concludes with a summary of principles and policy support mechanisms. 
Take Action for Climate Justice: A Guide for Teachers and Educators Working With Young People Aged 9-16 Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: Oxfam GB Aimed at teachers and educators, this short guide contains practical advice, classroom activities and helpful planning tools to inspire and motivate young people aged 9-16 to take action for our planet and its people.There are many ways in which we can all take climate action, from making individual lifestyle changes to participating in collective community responses that target the systemic causes of the climate emergency, and all are important. Taking action can develop young people’s sense of agency, build skills such as leadership and decision-making, and help them to build empathy and manage eco-anxiety. This guide supports young people to take action by sharing the message about climate justice, raising awareness and influencing others to help make change happen.A recent survey by Inter Climate Network found that more than 80 per cent of young people aged 11–18 were concerned about climate change, with half of them already choosing to take climate action. Almost all of those taking action are doing so at home, with only a third acting on climate change in school. Another key finding was that many young people do not feel they have the power to effect change, citing barriers such as a lack of knowledge about what they can do, insufficient time provided in school for positive climate action, and a sense that individual actions have little impact without wider structural change. 
ESD Implementation in Learning Cities Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) This publication aims to share the best practice cases from nine cities on ESD implementation (policy and practice) following a lifelong learning approach. These cases showcase innovative local initiatives that have embedded ESD into lifelong learning systems through policy/ strategy development or project implementation, focusing on the following priority areas of action and local activities laid down in the ESD for 2030 roadmap: Local policy/strategy development on ESD: The development of an action plan that determines how the community as a whole can become a learning laboratory for sustainable development. Capacity-building for educators and local authorities: Lifelong learning initiatives for systematic and comprehensive ESD capacity development for educators in the formal and non-formal education sectors, and for local government officials. Efforts to foster engagement with local communities, including: • formal education institutions’ engagement with local communities for the promotion of ESD; • non-formal education institutions (e.g. community learning centres) serving as a hub for lifelong learning on ESD in their communities. Empowerment and mobilization of youth: Lifelong learning initiatives for ESD that focus on young people. Innovative use of local spaces for ESD: Designated areas or spaces that inspire learning and host projects that promote sustainability. In addition to the five priority areas listed above, the case studies share one cross-cutting theme: • Multi-stakeholder approach: How people from different walks of life or professional sectors come together to contribute to local ESD initiatives at either the policy or the project level. 
Citizenship Education for Democratic and Sustainable Communities Year of publication: 2021 Author: Dimitris Deligiannis | Kleoniki Tsiougou | Vicky Goutha | Antonis Moutselos | Ted Fleming Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) | City of Larissa (Greece) | City of Yeonsu-Gu (Republic of Korea) This publication aims to make readers aware of the importance of citizenship education (CE) in local communities within the framework of lifelong learning. It supports cities and citizens in advancing their work on this critical aspect of formal and non-formal education, and in striving for progress in the provision of CE for youth and adult learners. It is mainly based on information from the 2020 survey of cluster members, as well as on case studies and inputs from the conference, ‘Strengthening citizenship education at local level’, which was held virtually on 12 and 13 November 2020. 
The Human Impact of Climate Change: A Teaching Resource for Ages 11-16 Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Oxfam GB These activities for ages 11-16 explore the human impact of the climate emergency and provide new spaces, approaches and opportunities for climate education and social action. This is in response to the call to action by Teach the Future (2020) who presented research on the current state and future of climate education in the UK. Their report discovered an overwhelming demand for climate education in schools alongside low levels of teacher knowledge about how to effectively deliver climate education and a narrow range of curriculum areas where it is taught. This resource frames the climate emergency as a human rights and people-centred issue and supports teachers to promote a sense of agency and empowerment within young people. This in turn is recognised as one strategy to help young people manage eco-anxiety, as well as disillusionment and disengagement with climate issues. This resource is suitable as both a curriculum resource and to inform social action by young people (for example, in GCSE Citizenship Studies) 
Social and Emotional Development of Children Year of publication: 2006 Corporate author: California Childcare Health Program (CCHP) This document describes the social and emotional development of young children and identifies why they behave in different ways, especially challenging behaviors. The impact of these behaviors on early care and education programs, staff, and families is described, as well as ways to address this phenomenon.