2nd UNESCO Forum on Global Citizenship Education (GCED)

• ​Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3
   

• Concluding Reports
  • ​Policy Report for GECD by Stephanie Knox Cubbon, Rapporteur
  • Partnerships Report by Laura John, Rapporteur
  • Implementation Report  of GCED by Wing On Lee, Rapporteur
     
• Opening
  • Irina Bokova, the Director-General of UNESCO
  • Amira Yahyaoui, President of Al-Bawsala [The compass]
     
• Closing
  • The Road to Incheon - World Education Forum 2015, 19-22 May 2015
  • Closing Remarks by Soo-hyang Choi, Director of the Division for Teaching, Learning and Content, UNESCO
  • Youth Statement
     
• Plenary Session 1
  • Peter de Souza, Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, India
  • Tarald Osnes Brautaset, Ambassador and Special Envoy for Education, Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
  • Gloria Mercedes Carrasco, Under-Secretary of Education, District of Bogota, Colombia
  • Albert Motivans, Representative of the Technical Advisory Group of the EFA Steering Committee
     
• Plenary Session 2
  • Carlos Alberto Torres, Chair-holder, UNESCO Chair on Global learning and global citizenship education at UCLA
  • Tony Jenkins, Director, Peace Education Initiative
  • Patrice Brodeur, KAICIID Dialogue Center
  • Aarti Saihjee, United Nations Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI) Secretariat
     
• Plenary Session 3
  • Jorge Sequiera, Director of the UNESCO Santiago Office
  • Choong-hee Hahn, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations
  • Susan Hopgood, President of Education International representative
  • Rostom Haouchine, Jeunesse+
  • Aaron Benavot, Director of the UNESCO EFA Global Monitoring Report
     
• Summaries of concurrent sessions

Concurrent Sessions 1-2
Measuring learning outcomes of Global Citizenship Education and Education for Sustainable Development

• Moderator: Abbie Raikes, Section of Learning and Teachers, UNESCO Headquarters
• Theophania Chavatzia, Programme Specialist, Section for Health and Global Citizenship Education, UNESCO Headquarters
• Albert Motivans, UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
• Chernor Bah, Global Education First Initiative (GEFI), Youth Advocacy Group (YAG)
• Dirk Hastedt, International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)
• Koji Miyamoto, Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• Alexis Menten, Education and Leadership, Asia Society
• Vincenza Nazzari, Equitas
• Amy Skinner, Developing Europeans’ Engagement for the Eradication of Global Poverty (DEEEP)
   

Concurrent Sessions 3-4
Global Citizenship Education in the post 2015 Framework: Taking the agenda forward

• ​Moderator: Aaron Benavot, Director, Education for All Global Monitoring Report Team, UNESCO Headquarters
• Chris Castle, Chief, Section for Health and Citizenship Education, UNESCO Headquarters
• Rilli Lappalainen, Kehys Secretary and Multi-stakeholder group on Development Education CONCORD/DEEEP
• Jorge Sequeira, UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago
• Fady Yarak, Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Lebanon
• Rolando Villamero, Youth Advocacy Group (YAG), Philippines
   

Concurrent Session 5
Driving the Global Citizenship Education agenda forward: Mobilizing the voices of the youth

• Moderator: Anisa Khan, Delta Environmental Education
• Dr. James H. Williams, UNESCO Chair in International Education for Development, the George Washington University (GWU)
• Luis Carlos Guedes, Youth Advocacy Group (YAG), Brazil
• Piyali Sarkar Debnath, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development, India
• Katarina Roncevic, Behinderung und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit e.V. (Bezev), Disability and Development Cooperation
• Sami Al Asimy, General Authority for Investment Promotion and Export Development, Oman
   

Concurrent Sessions 6-7
Operationalizing Global Citizenship Education: Mainstreaming and delivery

• Moderators: Dina Kiwan, Lebanon Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut and Felisa Tibbitts, Human Rights Education Associates (HREA)
• Theophania Chavatzia, Section of Health and Global Citizenship Education, UNESCO
• Asmaa Muhammad Fikree, Educate a Child, Qatar and Youth Advocacy group (YAG)
• Friedrich W. Affolter, Peacebuilding Programme, UNICEF; and Prof. Alan Smith, UNESCO Chair School of Education, University of Ulster
• Richard Baker, Education and Youth, Oxfam
• Yulia Pererva, Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education Unit, Council of Europe
• Aija Tuna, “Schools as Community Development Resources” Project, Latvia
• Liam Wegimont, Global Education Network in Europe (GENE)
   

Concurrent Session 8
Knowledge sharing, networking and cooperation for global citizenship

• Moderator: Lynne Sergeant, International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)
• Jeongmin Eom, Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) under the auspices of UNESCO
• Lynne Sergeant, IIEP
• Livia Saldari and Fouzia Belhami, Section of Education for Sustainable Development, UNESCO Headquarters
• Hazar Yildirim, Education Content and Communications, AFS Intercultural Programs
• Siham Al Riyami, Deputy Director of programs and curricula, private schools department at the Directorate General of Special Schools, Oman
   

Concurrent Session 9
Outcomes of the World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development (Aichi-Nagoya): Implications for future action

• Moderator: Alexander Leicht, Section of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), UNESCO Headquarters
• Alexander Leicht, UNESCO
   

Concurrent Sessions 11-12
Teachers and Global Citizenship Education

• Moderators: Sobhi Tawil, EFA and Global Agenda Coordination Team, UNESCO Headquarters and Lay-Cheng Tan, UNESCO, Bangkok
• Maki Hayashikawa, Section of Learning and Teachers, UNESCO
• Liana Ghent, International Step by Step Association (ISSA), The Netherlands
• Soo Boon Ng, Curriculum Division, Ministry of Education, Malaysia
• Dr. Ana María Velásquez, Centro de Investigación y Formación en Educación (CIFE), Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
• Calin Rus, Intercultural Institute of Timisoara, Romania
• Maki Hayashikwa, Section of Leaning and Teachers, UNESCO
• Jacob Hui, Sun Kei Secondary School, University of Hong Kong
• Dr. Dianne Chambers, Special Education and Double Degrees, University of Notre Dame, Australia
• Issaou Gado, National Institute of Training and Research in Education and Ecole Normale Supérieure of the University of Parakou, Benin
• Sabrina Ongkiko, Culiat Elementary School, Division of City Schools Department of Education, The Philippines
   

Concurrent Session 13
How does language education contribute to global citizenship?

• Moderator: Min Bahadur Bista, UNESCO Office in Bangkok and Regional Bureau for Education and Noro Andriamiseza, Section of Health and Global Citizenship Education, UNESCO
• Prof. Jagdish Gundara, UNESCO Chair in Intercultural Studies and Teacher Education, University of London
• Prof. Gina Thésée, Education department, Université du Québec, Montreal
• Dr. Robinson Clinton, International Consultant
   

Concurrent Session 14
Respect for diversity, commitment to dialogue: Interreligious education and Global Citizenship Education

• Moderators: Ann-Belinda Preis, Division for programme and budget, UNESCO and Dr. Hillary Wiesner, KAICIID
• Dr. Mark Chater, Culham St Gabriels
• Téné Haïdara Coulibaly, Ministry of Education, Côte d’Ivoire
• Prof. Lynn Davies, School of Education, University of Birmingham
   

Concurrent Session 15
History teaching and Global Citizenship Education

• Moderator: Prof. Werner Wintersteiner, Centre for Peace Research and Peace education, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
• Eckhardt Fuchs, Georg Eckert Institute, Germany
• Doyle Stevick, University of South Carolina, United States of America
• Sami Adwan, Hebron University, Palestine
• Kahmboly Dy, Sleuk Rith Institute
   

Concurrent Session 16
Global health and Global Citizenship: Lessons learned from epidemic responses

• Moderator: Audrey Kettaneh, Section of Health and Global Citizenship Education, UNESCO Headquarters
• Stevenson Seidi, Programme Specialist, UNESCO, Monroviaeidi Stevenson
• Scott Pulizzi, Section of Health and Global Citizenship Education, UNESCO
• Charmaine Picardo, Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), Zimbabwe
   

Concurrent Session 17
Tackling discrimination and violence in the educational setting through Global Citizenship Education

• Moderator: Joanna Herat, Sexuality Education, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Gender Equality, UNESCO
• Helen Bond, Elementary Education Program, Howard University, United States
• Aarti Saihjee, United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) Secretariat
• Anjana Suvarnananda, Anjaree Foundation, Thailand
   

Concurrent Sessions 18-19
Contributions of peace and human rights education to GCED: Current trends, challenges and promising approaches

• Moderators: Louise Haxthausen, Office of the Director-general, UNESCO and Georges Tsaï, Chirac Foundation
• Ozlem Eskiocak Oguzertem, Human Rights Education Programme, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
• Tony Jenkins, Peace Education Initiative, Judith Herb College of Education, The University of Toledoony Jenkins
• Mary Kangethe, Ministry of Education, Kenya
• Georges Tsai, Chirac Foundation
• AnitaYudkin, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Cátedra UNESCO de Educación para la Paz
   

Concurrent Session 20
Educating for engagement through social media and information communication technology

• Moderator: Davide Storti, Section for ICT in Education, Science and Culture, UNESCO
• Prof. Lynn Davies, School of Education, University of Birmigham
• Luiz Carlos Guedes, Youth Advocacy Group (YAG), Brazil
   

• Concept note
• Programme
• Practical information
• Conference room map
• Questions and Answers
• List of participants- draft
   

• Global Citizenship Education - Topics and Learning Objectives
• Global Citizenship Education - Preparing learners for the challenges of the 21st century
• GCED Infographic
   

• Second UNESCO Forum on Global Citizenship Education
• Global citizenship is…
   

• 30.01.15 - Global citizenship must be placed at the centre of education systems
• 28.01.15 - Second UNESCO Forum on Global Citizenship Education Puts Spotlight on Post-2015 Development Agenda and Peace
• 26.01.15 - Viewpoint: How to foster global citizenship through education
   

• contributions to #GlobalCitizen
   

• Global Citizenship Education (GCED)