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Gender, Media and ICTs: New Approaches for Research, Education & Training Year of publication: 2019 Author: Lisa French | Aimée Vega Montiel | Claudia Padovani Corporate author: UNESCO Higher education has to grapple with intense change in communications technologies, genres and business models - and with stubborn continuities in gender inequalities. This publication helps to navigate and transform the conundrum. It provides seven structured and practical modules, and a treasure trove of links to further resources. The book’s contents can empower its readers to advance gender equality in and through communications. 
Transformative Learning Journeys: Venturing Into the Wilds of Global Citizenship Education Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: Bridge 47 This book is a testimony of the Bridge 47 Transformative Learning Journeys – an experiment to expand our concepts and practices of Global Citizenship Education. It is a nevercomplete mosaic of experiences and personal reflections about transformation, decolonization and learning as an invitation to relate to and play with.This book is dedicated to all the curious people out there who are passionate about education in caring for our world and each other - the dreamers, the healers, the lovers, the teachers for a different future to emerge. It goes to the fighters who are desperate and overwhelmed in face of complex challenges and are worn out by their struggle for justice and change – to find inspiration, energy and courage to treat ourselves gently, to let go and to make space for new things to emerge. 
The Role of Education in Addressing Future Challenges Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: Bridge 47 This report, ‘The role of Education in addressing future challenges’, was prepared in response to UNESCO’s Futures of Education consultation. Through this initiative, UNESCO proposes to consider the role of education as a common good in 2050 and beyond. In other words, education is key to building a more sustainable planet and equal societies. In this report, Bridge 47 will focus on the role of education that is transformative and value-based to adapt and respond to the multiple challenges the world is currently facing. Bridge 47 considers as transformative any education that fosters global citizenship, sustainable development, human rights, equality, peace and cultural diversity, as captured in Target 4.7. of the Sustainable Development Goals.Bridge 47 sees education from a holistic perspective, ie. learning that is lifelong and extends beyond formal learning, and life-wide, that takes place in a multitude of contexts and environments. Formal, non-formal and informal learning all have a key role to play. 
Review of best practices in education for sustainable Development in Central Asia in the light of the implementation of the UN Decade of ESD and the UNECE Strategy on ESD Year of publication: 2009 Corporate author: Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia (CAREC) “A review of the best practices in education for sustainable development in Central Asia in the light of the implementation of the UN Decade on ESD and the UNECE Strategy on ESD” was prepared by CAREC in 2008-2009 in the framework of the “Subregional Education for Sustainable Development Network” project, in collaboration with experts from Central Asian countries. 
Guide to Significant Learning Situations in the Classroom for Global Citizenship and Sustainable Development in Secondary School Year of publication: 2024 Author: Helena Rodriguez de Guzmán Corporate author: Entreculturas | Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) This didactic proposal aims to promote new models of education so that they are more attractive, more conscious and with a profound and greater influence on the exercise of citizenship. Designed from the foundations of Transformative Education, it is committed to giving all students the opportunity to acquire the necessary skills for global and critical citizenship by supporting their vital growth in a comprehensive manner, as proposed by UNESCO (UNESCO, 2022). In turn, this teaching resource provides tools that support the educational strategies promoted by the LOMLOE whose main objective is to guarantee the comprehensive training of students, contributing to the development of their personality, the full exercise of human rights and active and democratic citizenship in the actual society. 
What is Global Citizenship? Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) | Spain. Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport Inteviews carried out to experts that participated in a debate regarding global citizenship during the V National Teachers' Meeting for development. Coordinated by AECID and MECD (Spain). 
Global citizenship: a high school educator's guide (grades 9-12) Year of publication: 2013 Corporate author: TeachUNICEF Global Citizenship is a unit of four lessons designed to introduce the concept of global citizenship and place it in the context of international human rights; to engage students in a guided inquiry into the meaning of global citizenship and its relationship to national citizenship; to educate about how the United Nations has framed global rights and responsibilities for the 21st century and is acting on them via the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); and to investigate how the U.S. Fund for UNICEF has engaged individuals in support of global citizenship as well as to engage students in designing and implementing a plan to act locally in support of global issues. 
UNESCO and Education Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO Education is a fundamental human right and
a public good and, as such, has been at the core of UNESCO’s work since its inception.Education is also the path to sustainability – to poverty alleviation, better health, environmental protection and gender equality.As the only United Nations agency with a mandate to cover all aspects of education, UNESCO was entrusted in 2015 to lead the coordination and monitoring of Sustainable Development Goal 4, as part of the new Global Education 2030 Agenda.Goal 4 aims to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all,” and renewed UNESCO’s and Member States’ commitment to a vision of education that is holistic, inspirational and which leaves no one behind.This commitment is reflected in the size and scope of the Education Sector, the largest in UNESCO, with staff working at its Paris Headquarters and spread across a global network of field offices and specialized institutes and centres. With its close links with education ministries and other partners, UNESCO is strongly placed to press for action and change.UNESCO’s Education Sector supports Member States in developing education systems that foster high-quality and inclusive lifelong learning for all, empowering learners to be creative and responsible global citizens while leading the debate to help shape the future international education agenda.There is no stronger, no more lasting, investment a country can make than educating its citizens. The Education Sector exists to further this collective vision worldwide by transforming lives one by one. 
Education for Global Citizenship Year of publication: 2012 Corporate author: Education Above All (Qatar) This book shows that transformative education for local, national and global citizenship and peace 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. The book is divided into three parts: Part One provides a brief overview of education for global citizenship; including in chapter 1, the subject matter and sub-themes; in chapter 2 the challenges of teaching for personal values and behavior development; and in chapter 3 the importance of having a clearly defined and holistic policy accepted by key stakeholders, and effective implementation.Part Two comprises chapters contributed by practitioners and specialists. Section A of Part Two presents some reflections on the challenges of teaching for values development and behavior change, and on the use of textbooks in this regard. Section B comprises four case studies that focus on or include education for citizenship and civics. Section C presents three cases focused on education for peace, together with a review of peace education in Muslim societies. Section D introduces human rights education and education designed to explore humanitarian law. Section E reviews problems of and possibilities for teaching about a conflictual past. Section F focuses on the development of national and international policy and planning for education to be supportive of peacebuilding and of respect for human rights.Finally, Part Three offers some recommendations for future action 
Social and Emotional Learning and Soft Skills: USAID Education Policy Brief Year of publication: 2019 Author: Kalene Resler | Anjuli Shivshanker | Samantha Alvis | Chris Capacci-Carneal | Melissa Chiappetta | Lauren Greubel | Julie Hanson Swanson | Ashley Henderson | Josh Josa | Laura Lartigue | Rebeca Martinez | Leah Maxson | Olga Merchan | Yolande Miller-Grandvaux | Sandy Oleksy-Ojikutu | Rebecca Pagel | Nancy Taggart | Nina Weisenhorn | Wendy Wheaton Corporate author: United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Both the 2018 USG Strategy on International Basic Education and the 2018 USAID Education Policy emphasize the importance of social and emotional skills or soft skills in assuring the long-term success of children and youth. Through the Strategy and Policy, USAID is providing new opportunities to systematically design, measure, implement, and understand the impact of programs that build social and emotional skills or soft skills for children and youth.To support USAID staff and implementing partners in this work, this brief: Provides an introductory understanding of what USAID means by the terms “social and emotional skills” and “soft skills” and how to communicate about them. Specifies the desired outcomes and quality standards for programming that teach social and emotional skills or soft skills. Identifies areas in which evidence and best practices still have gaps, and areas in which we should consider investing in further learning.