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Communication Strategy: UNESCO Guidance on Communicating on Gender Equality in and through Education Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: UNESCO About 259 million children and youth are out of school according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, including 127 million girls and 132 million boys. Twothirds of the 750 million non-literate adults around the world are women. This gender disparity remains one of the persistent challenges in adult literacy and education. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing challenges, disrupting the education of over 1.5 billion learners. UNESCO estimates that close to 24 million children and youth, including over 11 million girls and 13 million boys, may drop out of school due to the pandemic’s economic impact. A window of opportunity is now more than ever open to build back equal. This communication strategy is designed to provide strategic guidance on communicating on gender equality in and through education. While prepared for UNESCO Education Sector staff, including those at Headquarters, in Field/Regional/Cluster Offices and in Institutes as well as for implementing partners, a broader audience of gender focal points, partners, Member States and others with an interest in and commitment to gender equality in and through education may also find this strategy particularly useful. 
Tools for a More Inclusive Education Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: Chile. Ministry of Education This document presents a conceptual framework to help the different educational teams deployed at the national level to devise and implement inclusive practices in their daily management, in their ways of living together and in their teaching-learning processes. This, within the framework of the promulgation of Law 20,845, modifies the General Education Law (N°20,370/2009) in its article 4, adding that “It is the duty of the State to strive to ensure quality inclusive education for all people. 
Asia-Pacific Early Childhood Care and Education: Teacher Training Handbook for Social and Emotional Learning Year of publication: 2022 Author: Monisha Singh Diwan Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok The handbook was initiated by UNESCO Bangkok. This effort is in response to the widespread recognition of social and emotional learning (SEL)’s importance and the lack of robust and more contextually relevant and culturally sensitive SEL programme for teachers to effectively deliver SEL. With this, UNESCO Bangkok aims to support the Member States in the Asia-Pacific to equip their early childhood care and education (ECCE) teachers with SEL knowledge and skills, and to ensure that children develop pro-social and emotional skills and positive relationships within the early stage of the learning process, particularly in enhancing (1) knowledge about student SEL and classroom management; (2) strategies to apply in the classroom; and (3) teachers’ own social and emotional competence.The handbook provides the context and foundation for the programme. The background of the initiative that led to the regional handbook and training modules (Chapter 1), the introduction of the purpose and use of the handbook (Chapter 2), an overview of ECCE (Chapter 3), SEL (Chapter 4), teachers’ professional education, learning and development (Chapter 5), and APETT-SEL conceptual framework followed by an overview of the four themes and ten modules (Chapter 6). The Glossary provides definitions and/or explanations of key educational terminologies used to provide greater clarity. The ten comprehensive training modules aim to build capacity of pre-primary and early primary teachers, both pre- and in-service, across four themes. The first theme focuses on teachers and their well-being; the second equips teachers in building pro-social and responsive classrooms; the third focuses on diversity, inclusion, cultural responsiveness, and equity; and the fourth focuses on SEL measurement and assessment. Each training module consists of scripted sessions and activities, as well as reference materials included as handouts and additional readings. 
Folklore: Right to Own Culture; Teacher's Guide Year of publication: 1997 Author: William Tamayo Ángeles Corporate author: Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (IIDH) The traditional popular culture that we call folklore summarizes centuries of our history and the festive art that expresses it, through dance, music and words, is the bearer of a sensitivity that for a long time there has been an attempt to extinguish in the country, despite constitute one of those traits that best identifies us before the world and to be recognized as a nationalizing link of Peruvians. This document offers a guide for teachers and students to learn more about this expression of the continuous life of our people and identify in it their own daily effort of liberation and improvement. 
The Science of Happiness Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: BBVA Aprendemos Juntos Tal Ben-Shahar is the happiness scientist of the 21st century. In this video he talks about the need to teach with positive emotions to increase the happiness and creativity of students. Doctor in psychology and philosophy, Tal Ben-Shahar's Positive Psychology course at Harvard holds the record for the subject with the largest number of students in the history (1400 per semester) of Harvard University, earning the nickname "professor of the happiness". Ben-Shahar is the author of books such as "Choose the life you want" or "Practice happiness", among others, in which he talks about the emotions that improve learning, creativity, the capacity for innovation, and ultimately, people's daily life. 
[Book Review] Global Education for a Better World (Ibero-American Journal of Education; vol. 85, no.2) Year of publication: 2021 Author: Patricia Vasquez | Gustavo Rojas Review of the book "Global education to improve the world: how to promote global citizenship from the School" in which Dr. Fernando Reimers proposes the bases for an education that allows teachers and students to transform themselves to also transform their environment. In this work, a complex and multidimensional theoretical framework is presented that analyzes the process of educational change required to implement an education for global citizenship from five perspectives: cultural, psychological, institutional, professional and political. 
Paulo Freire's Contributions to Intercultural Education: A Case Study in Compulsory Secondary Education (Ibero-American Journal of Education; vol.76) Year of publication: 2018 Author: Maria Verdeja Muniz | Xose Anton Gonzalez Riano The general purpose of this research is to synthesize the contributions of Paulo Freire's pedagogy to intercultural education and study the possibilities of application to the educational system. The research is raised from a qualitative perspective and completed with a case study. At first, an analysis of a selected part of Freire's written work was carried out and the basic lines of what his intercultural sensitivity would be established. In another level of analysis, a study of the subjects of the ESO curriculum in Asturias in its intercultural dimension is carried out. The case study in the educational center shows that, in order to carry out true intercultural education proposals, it would be necessary for there to be some previous conditions that are described in the article. 
Toolkit for Designing a Comprehensive Distance Learning Strategy Year of publication: 2021 Author: Emily Morris | Yvette Tan Corporate author: United States Agency for International Development (USAID) The purpose of this toolkit is to provide practical guidance (tools, examples, and resources) for designing a comprehensive distance learning strategy that covers an entire education sector or system. 
The Effectiveness of Educational Electronic Games in Developing Some Health Skills of Autistic Children Semi-Experimental Study in Lattakia Governorate (Tishreen University Journal for Research and Scientific Studies, Arts and Humanities; vol. 43, no. 5) Year of publication: 2021 Author: Raneem Jablawi Corporate author: Tishreen University "The aim of the research is to verify the effectiveness of educational electronic games in developing some health skills among a sample of autistic children in Lattakia Governorate, their ages ranged between (5-6) years, and the research sample amounted to (12) autistic children, which were divided into an experimental group consisting of (8) children and a control group consisting of (8) children. To achieve this goal, the researcher used the quasi-experimental method. The children of the experimental group were subjected to a set of educational electronic games in order to develop their health skills.The results showed that there were statistically significant differences between the average scores of the children of the experimental group and the average scores of the children of the control group on the health skills test after the application of educational electronic games, in favor of the children of the experimental group, and there were statistically significant differences between the average scores of the children of the experimental group on the health skills test in the two tribal applications. and dimensional, in favor of dimensional application. The results of the study also showed that there were no statistically significant differences between the average scores of the experimental group children in the post application and their average scores in the delayed application on the health skills test.In light of the results, the researcher recommended conducting studies on the use of educational electronic games in developing different types of concepts and skills for autistic children, and conducting other studies on preparing programs for autistic children to develop different skills for them." 
National Education Curriculum for the Third Grade of Secondary Year of publication: 2022 Author: Moahmmed Ali Corporate author: ELkheta Seniors The video reviews a full episode of the national education curriculum for the third secondary grade in Egypt. The teacher tries to talk about all the topics included in the curriculum, and makes an integrated review of the curriculum. The video is important for students who study independently to understand civics.