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Incorporating education for sustainable development into world heritage education: a teacher's guide Year of publication: 2010 Corporate author: UNESCO Office Bangkok and Regional Bureau for Education in Asia and the Pacific This publication, A Teacher’s Guide: Incorporating Education for Sustainable Development into World Heritage Education, represents the collective efforts of workshop participants to produce a practical tool for teachers to modify available curricula and incorporate ESD concepts and principles into WHE. It has taken a long time for the guide to be available in print. Nonetheless, the content of the guide remains practical and relevant in incorporating Education for Sustainable Development into World Heritage Education. 
Country reports on education for sustainable development: centred on the five cluster countries of UNESCO office, Jakarta Year of publication: 2011 Author: Meeyoung Choi | Robert J. Didham Corporate author: UNESCO Jakarta As the cluster office, UNESCO Office, Jakarta covers the implementation of all major programmes and mandates by UNESCO in these five countries as well as disseminates and shares information and knowledge in the fields of education, science, culture and communication in the Asia and Pacific region. Promoting sub-regional education for sustainable development in South-East Asia Year of publication: 2011 Corporate author: UNESCO Jakarta UNESCO Office, Jakarta, focuses on five cluster countries, helping their governments to plan and manage the education sector by enhancing national capacities to integrate sustainable development issues and practices into all types and levels of education. 
Proposed thematic programme on water education within the UN Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (DESD, 2005-2014) Year of publication: 2006 Corporate author: International Hydrological Programme (IHP) Water education is a very important component of UNESCO’s overall effort in water, including within the International Hydrological Programme. The UNESCO Executive Board has called for a UNESCO-wide strategy for water education at all levels. This document reviews the evolution of water education within UNESCO, and draws attention to the Draft Action Plan for the UN Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), which includes 12 Thematic Programmes one of which would be devoted to “Education for Sustainable Water Management”. The IHP would be expected to play an important role in such a UNESCO-wide effort for water education. Education for sustainable development: sourcebook Year of publication: 2012 Corporate author: UNESCO The target audiences for the Education for Sustainable Development Sourcebook are primary and secondary teachers and mid-level decision-makers, who have responsibility for primary and secondary education. Another primary audience is teacher educators who work with pre-service and in-service primary and secondary school teachers. The purpose of the publication is to describe ways in which education for sustainable development (ESD) can be integrated into primary and secondary schooling. This collection of briefs is designed to complement other ESD materials published by UNESCO. The topics for the briefs were selected in consultation with UNESCO Field Offices and Institutes. The briefs for primary and secondary teachers are specifically written for professional educators who work in formal education settings. The briefs for teachers as well as those for decision-makers address “gaps” in the UNESCO ESD literature. Education for sustainable development: building a better, fairer world for the 21st century Year of publication: 2012 Corporate author: UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development allows every human being to acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values necessary to shape a sustainable future. Education for Sustainable Development means including key sustainable development issues into teaching and learning; for example, climate change, disaster risk reduction, biodiversity, poverty reduction, and sustainable consumption. It also requires participatory teaching and learning methods that motivate and empower learners to change their behaviour and take action for sustainable development. Education for Sustainable Development consequently promotes competencies like critical thinking, imagining future scenarios and making decisions in a collaborative way. Education for Sustainable Development requires far-reaching changes in the way education is often practised today. UNESCO is the lead agency for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014). Review of contexts and structures for education for sustainable development 2009: key findings & ways forward Year of publication: 2009 Corporate author: UNESCO This document suggests key findings and ways forward in review of the contexts and strctures of education for sustainable development. Integrating education for sustainable development & education for international understanding: conceptual issues and pedagogical principles for teacher education to address sustainability Year of publication: 2006 Author: Swee-Hin Toh Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok It is in this spirit that this essay seeks to “integrate” two active and expanding fields of 2 educational innovation and transformation worldwide, namely ESD (education for sustainable development or sustainability) and EIU (education for international understanding). The key conceptual issues and themes of both of these movements will be clarified and shared values and understandings highlighted. It will also be argued that both ESD and EIU , in order to effectively fulfill their goals of building a peaceful, just and sustainable world order, rests on some key common pedagogical principles and processes. Another introductory caveat is also essential here, namely the question of paradigm. Among policy-makers, theorists and practitioners, there may well be and often are distinct differences in conceptualization according to their paradigmatic interpretations, with consequently alternative implications for policies and practices. Address by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of Ministerial Breakfast Meeting: Scaling up Action on Education for Sustainable Development; UNESCO, 8 November 2013 Year of publication: 2013 Author: Irina Bokova Corporate author: UNESCO Director-General, 2009- (Bokova, I.G.) This address was given by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of Ministerial Breakfast Meeting "Scaling up Action on Education for Sustainable Development." Address by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the Opening of the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development; Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, 10 November 2014 Year of publication: 2014 Author: Irina Bokova Corporate author: UNESCO Director-General, 2009- (Bokova, I.G.) This address by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO was presented on the occasion of the Opening of the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development.