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Global school partnerships programme impact evaluation report Year of publication: 2011 Author: Juliet Sizmur | Bernadetta Brzyska | Louise Cooper | Jo Morrison | Kathryn Wilkinson | David Kerr Corporate author: National Foundation for Educational Research The overarching aim of this evaluation is to assess the impact of DFID‟s Global School Partnerships (GSP) programme on levels of global awareness and attitudes to global issues in pupils attending GSP schools in the UK.This main aim can be broken down into four subsidiary aims, namely:1. to measure levels of global awareness and attitudes to global issues amongst pupils taking part in GSP programme activities2. to compare awareness levels and attitudes among pupils in GSP schools with those of pupils in non-GSP schools3. to evaluate whether the impact of GSP on global awareness and attitudes to global issues differs depending on pupils‟ ages and educational stages (e.g. at primary versus secondary level)4. to assess whether levels of awareness and attitudes amongst participating pupils change as the GSP programme becomes more embedded in schools (i.e. whether, over time, the programme has a positive, neutral or negative impact on pupil levels of development awareness). Global education guidelines: a handbook for educators to understand and implement global education Year of publication: 2008 Corporate author: North-South Centre of the Council of Europe These Global Education Guidelines are the result of a need expressed by the North-South Centre’s (NSC) network of global education practitioners – the Global Education Week network - to have a common tool, built on experience gained by the network and other partners, to support educators to comprehend and successfully implement global education initiatives. By offering perspectives on global education as well as related methods and evaluation criteria – including sharing of practices, tools and resources - these Guidelines aim at strengthening the overall work for global education. It also aims at supporting practitioners in formal and non-formal education settings by introducing general elements which may be developed by them according to the needs and based on their own experiences; assist them in identifying existing global education approaches and practices; support them in reflecting on and becoming more aware of their own global education activities; increase global education practice sharing and create synergies between stakeholders; contribute to education policies at local, regional, national and international level.The Global Education Guidelines are an initiative of the Global Education Programme of the NorthSouth Centre of the Council of Europe, involving a team of educators from the Global Education Week network which constituted the drafting team with the mandate of drafting collectively the Global Education Guidelines. The writing process included a participatory method at several levels of consultancy amongst global education educators and practitioners actively involved with the North-South Centre global education and youth programmes. Moreover, a Group of Mentors was identified among NSC’s European and international partners, which included, inter alia, a team of trainers from the NSC’s University on Youth & Development.Topics presented in the Guidelines aim at clarifying fundamental questions related to global education; it suggest strategies on how to build contents; put forward aims, skills, values and attitudes; offer guidance on methods, curricular design and evaluation and list useful contacts, links and bibliography. The Guidelines should be regarded as an ongoing process of evolution, which should be regularly reviewed with new ideas, inputs and practices brought from a diversity of partners and their experiences. 
Global Education Guidelines: A Handbook for Educators to Understand and Implement Global Education Year of publication: 2008 Author: Alicia Cabezudo | Christos Christidis | Miguel Carvalho da Silva | Valentina Demetriadou-Saltet | Franz Halbartschlager | Georgeta-Paula Mihai Corporate author: North-South Centre of the Council of Europe These Global Education Guidelines are the result of a need expressed by the North-South Centre’s (NSC) network of global education practitioners – the Global Education Week network - to have a common tool, built on experience gained by the network and other partners, to support educators to comprehend and successfully implement global education initiatives. By offering perspectives on global education as well as related methods and evaluation criteria – including sharing of practices, tools and resources - these Guidelines aim at strengthening the overall work for global education. It also aims at supporting practitioners in formal and non-formal education settings by introducing general elements which may be developed by them according to the needs and based on their own experiences; assist them in identifying existing global education approaches and practices; support them in reflecting on and becoming more aware of their own global education activities; increase global education practice sharing and create synergies between stakeholders; contribute to education policies at local, regional, national and international level.The Global Education Guidelines are an initiative of the Global Education Programme of the NorthSouth Centre of the Council of Europe, involving a team of educators from the Global Education Week network which constituted the drafting team with the mandate of drafting collectively the Global Education Guidelines. The writing process included a participatory method at several levels of consultancy amongst global education educators and practitioners actively involved with the North-South Centre global education and youth programmes. Moreover, a Group of Mentors was identified among NSC’s European and international partners, which included, inter alia, a team of trainers from the NSC’s University on Youth & Development.Topics presented in the Guidelines aim at clarifying fundamental questions related to global education; it suggest strategies on how to build contents; put forward aims, skills, values and attitudes; offer guidance on methods, curricular design and evaluation and list useful contacts, links and bibliography. The Guidelines should be regarded as an ongoing process of evolution, which should be regularly reviewed with new ideas, inputs and practices brought from a diversity of partners and their experiences. Democracy and diversity: principles and concepts for educating citizens in a global age Year of publication: 2005 Author: James A. Banks | Cherry A. McGee Banks | Carlos E. Cortes | Carole L. Hahn | Merry M. Merryfield | Kogila A. Moodley | Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu | Audrey Osler | Caryn Park | Walter C. Parker Corporate author: Center of Multicultural Education, University of Washington The Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington convened—with support from the Spencer Foundation—a Diversity, Citizenship, and Global Education Consensus Panel. The Panel’s goal was to develop a set of principles, concepts, and guidelines that school practitioners can use to build or renew citizenship education programs that balance diversity and unity and prepare students to become effective citizens in a global context. An important resource for the Panel’s work was the book that resulted from an earlier conference sponsored by the Center, Diversity and Citizenship Education: Global Perspectives (Banks, 2004a).The Consensus Panel developed four principles and identified ten concepts, which are detailed in this publication. The Panel also developed a checklist that is designed for use by educators who want to consider the extent to which the principles and concepts identified by the Panel are reflected in their classrooms and schools.PRINCIPLESSection I Diversity, Unity, Global Interconnectedness, and Human Rights1. Students should learn about the complex relationships between unity and diversity in their local communities, the nation, and the world.2. Students should learn about the ways in which people in their community, nation, and region are increasingly interdependent with other people around the world and are connected to the economic, political, cultural, environmental, and technological changes taking place across the planet.3. The teaching of human rights should underpin citizenship education courses and programs in multicultural nation-states.Section II Experience and Participation4. Students should be taught knowledge about democracy and democratic institutions and provided opportunities to practice democracy. جهانی شدن و ضرورت آموزشهای شهروندی جهانی Year of publication: 2012 Author: Yousef Keshavarz Corporate author: Center for Strategic Studies of the Presidency Today, due to “Globalization”, the fate of all individuals, organizations and governments are more tied together and effects of this process in all areas of human activity is undeniable. By looking at the concept of “Global Citizenship” new expectations of education as a meaningful factor to people’s lives and a tool to develop human character and supplying the social needs, is formed. This paper aims to examine and discuss the characteristics and components of global citizenship, the role, importance and necessity of global citizenship education. If we accept that the current use of existing resources in the world is unfair and unacceptable and the gap between rich and poor (in all aspects) wide and widens, should ponder choice. Training and education of global citizens (especially children and young people) who wish the world as a place full of justice, equality, peace and sustainable development, respect and protection of racial diversity, religious etc… and also possess other characteristic features addressed in this paper seems to be a powerful tool and solution. In this frame work, poverty and identity crisis of Iranian youth and in the other hand being attracted to the Globalization culture of outsiders, are two points that reveal the necessity for paying more attention to the training of global citizens, to adopt a broad and enormous prospective to the global issues. Therefore, according to the valuable Islamic texts and outlined prominent place for human beings and human values, also with consideration to the rich Iranian culture and civilization in direction with an active role in global co-management, living such training in formal and informal education system and also establishment of a center as such in partnership and cooperation with other educational institutions in the country is suggested. Citizenship education in Egypt Year of publication: 2013 Author: Madeline Waddell Corporate author: University of Puget Sound The Arab Spring brought hope of a democratic Middle East to many in the international community. While the literature on democratic transitions includes an array of components, scholars on the region have concentrated on institutional developments such as elections and constitutions. While these structural components are essential, this paper advocates for citizenship education as another crucial element in democratic transitions. Although not typically part of this literature, citizenship education entails building an informed and active populace able to contribute to a total culture of democracy. This paper analyzes these pedagogic efforts in transitional Egypt by contrasting the State’s role in citizenship education with that of civil society. This contrast leads to the conclusion that an emphasis on the third sector is necessary for carrying out the goals of citizenship education apolitically. Egypt’s school system is not only the most robust in the Arab world, but has historically been utilized by different authoritarian regimes to advance political goals. When juxtaposed with the emergence of an abundance of NGOs after the 2011 Revolution, it becomes an ideal case study. Analysis is based on theories of citizenship education and research of the Egyptian education system, and is supplemented with informal interviews in the country. International conference: reorienting TVET policy towards education for sustainable development: final report Year of publication: 2010 Corporate author: UNESCO International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (UNEVOC) | Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung | Colombo Plan Staff College for Technician Education This publication reports on the ESD review-responsive and future-oriented programme on “Reorienting TVET Policy Towards Education for Sustainable Development”, jointly organized by the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre in Bonn, Germany, InWEnt – Capacity Building International, Germany and Colombo Plan Staff College for Technician Education in Manila, Philippines. Citizenship education: does it have a place in the curriculum? Year of publication: 2005 Author: Carol Mutch Corporate author: NZCER Press The call for citizenship education as a compulsory part of the curriculum has met with a varied response worldwide. While everyone would espouse the ideals of ensuring our young people grow up to be active and fair-minded citizens, why does citizenship education not figure more prominently in our curriculum?This article discusses the past, present, and possible future of citizenship education in the New Zealand curriculum. Learning to live together: education for conflict resolution, responsible citizenship, human rights and humanitarian norms Year of publication: 2013 Author: Margaret Sinclair Corporate author: Education Above All (Qatar) Education cannot offer immediate remedies to the local and global problems that we see on the news screens every day, but it can contribute to solving them over the longer term. This book examines specifically the contribution that education for learning to live together can make, even in countries where teacher training and classroom resources are limited. Many countries have diverse populations (ethnic, linguistic, religious, etc) and seek to maintain harmony among the different groups. In some countries, however, especially where economic stress or climate change have intensified arguments over resources, tensions have led to armed conflict. This brings with it all the misery of death, injury, displacement and poverty, along with disruption of education systems. In some instances education itself has been a contributory factor to the outbreak of conflict, notably through unequal education opportunities for different groups, and through biased school curricula.Civil conflict has brought untold suffering in recent years, and in a globalised world it has negative spill-over effects to neighbouring and other countries. It is vital to develop education policies and curricular reforms that can help convey values and skills for learning to live together to young people, to help lessen tensions, within and between countries.Education policy-makers can help lay the foundations for a better future by adjusting the content and process of education to reflect skills and values for human rights, humanitarian norms, peaceful resolution of conflicts, sustainable development and other issues as elements of local, national and global citizenship.Education reform is not enough, of course, to resolve the numerous problems of our times. The focus of this volume is on the contribution that can be made through aligning the content of education to the goal of learning to live together. This work will have greater impact when it takes place within education systems and policies that are consistent with human rights values and of course when other sectors besides education make their respective contributions.This book shows that transformative education for conflict resolution and peace, for local, national and global citizenship, for human rights and humanitarian values can be implemented even under difficult conditions if there is a policy commitment to do so. Authors have provided examples and lessons learned from their own experiences as eminent practitioners in the field. MTB-MLE: mother tongue-based multilingual education; lessons learned from a decade of research and practice Year of publication: 2014 Corporate author: UNESCO What role can language play in improving education for minority language communities? What are language rights? What place does Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education have in realizing other development goals?These important questions were addressed by the 4th International Conference on Language and Education. The conference brought together over 300 practitioners from 30 countries, reflecting the incredible diversity of the Asia-Pacific region and clearly demonstrating the importance of Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE). This brochure summarizes some of the key messages from this landmark event.