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Books are essential to solving the global learning crisis
By Joseph Nhan-O’Reilly, Head of Education Policy and Advocacy, Save the Children and Chair of the Global Book Alliance A new coalition of governments, international agencies, NGOs and the private sector has launched this week with the aim of closing … Continue reading
Posted in Language, Literacy, textbooks, Uncategorized
Tagged books, language, mother-tongue, target 4.6, Target 4.a, textbooks
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The challenge of Target 4.7 in fragile and low-resource contexts
By Margaret Sinclair (Technical Adviser, Protect Education in Insecurity and Conflict Programme, Education Above All Foundation) and Jean Bernard (Senior Partner, Spectacle Learning Media) Given current challenges of conflict, insecurity and environmental collapse, we must put maximum effort into Sustainable … Continue reading
Posted in Citizenship, pedagogy, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, teaching, textbooks, Uncategorized
Tagged books, school, sdg 4.7, target 4.7, teaching, textbooks
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What did you learn in school? Is ‘B’ for Banana? Or Burka?
Across the news this week is proof of the explosive nature of textbook content if not got right. The Education Ministry in Bangladesh has released a new version of textbooks for grade one to grade ten that many say display … Continue reading
We must stamp out stereotypical teaching tools
Gender bias in textbooks is one of the best camouflaged and hardest to budge rocks in the road to gender equality in education. Through stereotypical and unbalanced depictions of men and women in stories and illustrations, textbooks undermine values and … Continue reading
