Tag Archives: curriculum

How will countries make up for lost learning during the pandemic?

Posted on 25 March 2021 by GEM Report

🔊 Listen to this blog As one lockdown week morphs into another, the learning of millions of students continues to be disrupted. UNESCO figures show, on average, two-thirds of an academic year has been lost worldwide due to COVID-19 school closures. The learning loss is enormous. The … Continue reading →

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Providing education for nomadic people requires a flexible approach

Posted on 15 February 2021 by GEM Report

An inclusive curriculum should be flexible. That means having a curriculum that is adaptable and accessible to various needs and abilities so as to increase student participation and engagement. There are degrees of flexibility, along a continuum from fully flexible … Continue reading →

Posted in curriculum, Inclusion, migrant, migration, pedagogy, Uncategorized | Tagged 2021 Eurasia, curriculum, Inclusion, inclusive education, migration | 1 Comment

Educating for the social, the emotional and the sustainable

Posted on 6 November 2019 by GEM Report

By Andy Smart, Margaret Sinclair, Aaron Benavot, Jean Bernard, Colette Chabbott, S. Garnett Russell and James Williams Earlier this year, the UN Secretary-General reported that “the shift in development pathways to generate the transformation required to meet the Sustainable Development … Continue reading →

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Good news: Chile is going to cover climate change in its curriculum

Posted on 2 August 2017 by GEM Report

At the end of last month, the Chilean president, Michelle Bachelet, said that climate change would become an obligatory subject for students to learn in the third and fourth grades of secondary school in history and science classes. The President … Continue reading →

Posted in Citizenship, Climate change, curriculum, Environment, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Uncategorized | Tagged Chile, climate change, curriculum, Environment, sustainable development | 3 Comments

Gender stereotypes in Bangladeshi school textbooks

Posted on 30 May 2017 by GEM Report

By M Niaz Asadullah, Samia Huq, Kazi Mukitul Islam and Zaki Wahhaj* Education is widely considered an effective means to address the socioeconomic challenges that women face around the world and a key Sustainable Development target. Yet girls systematically lag … Continue reading →

Posted in curriculum, Gender, pedagogy, textbooks, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, curriculum, equity, Gender, target 4.7, textbooks | 1 Comment

A racist education

Posted on 21 March 2017 by GEM Report

By Kassiani Lythrangomitis I was born in a racist country, with a racist president, and racist laws. My neighbour was a racist. I went to a racist school that did not allow black children to learn in the same space … Continue reading →

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Peru has a new ‘rose-tinted’ curriculum

Posted on 8 March 2017 by GEM Report

The UN congratulated Peru last week for its new education curriculum, in effect since the 1st January this year, which aims to improve gender equality. The change has been long needed, as is the case for many other countries in … Continue reading →

Posted in curriculum, Gender, Latin America, parity, pedagogy, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, curriculum, equality, equity, Gender, target 4.7, textbooks | 1 Comment

What American textbooks say about Vietnam, and about Americans’ attitudes toward war

Posted on 11 January 2017 by GEM Report

This blog examines what a country’s textbooks can tell us about their attitude towards war, and in particular how coverage of the Vietnam war has changed over time in American textbooks. It is part of a series of blogs on … Continue reading →

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We need textbooks that are affirming of sexual diversity

Posted on 10 January 2017 by GEM Report

This blog looks at the way that textbooks can help or hinder the tolerance of sexual diversity. It is part of a series of blogs on this site published to encourage debates around a new GEM Report Policy Paper: Between … Continue reading →

Posted in curriculum, Human rights, LGBT, LGBTI, sexual diversity, Sexual violence, teaching, textbooks, Uncategorized | Tagged Between the Lines Blog Series, curriculum, education, homosexuality, human rights, LGBT, LGBTI, sexual diversity, target 4.7, textbooks | 1 Comment

The Current State of Textbooks in Turkey: a denial of minorities

Posted on 9 January 2017 by GEM Report

This blog looks at how Turkish textbooks could better incorporate the cultures, lifestyles and histories of ethnic and religious minorities. It is part of a series of blogs on this site published to encourage debates around a new GEM Report … Continue reading →