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Category Archives: curriculum
How will countries make up for lost learning during the pandemic?
🔊 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
Posted in curriculum, Finance, Learning, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, curriculum, finance, financing, learning, target 4.1, target 4.6
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Providing education for nomadic people requires a flexible approach
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
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Jean-Paul Gaultier, Hillary Clinton, Shakira, Pele, Yalitza Aparicio and others join in calling for more inclusive education
High-profile influencers from around the world joined the GEM Report in calling for more inclusive education systems. The 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report showed that exclusion in education had deepened during the COVID-19 pandemic. For instance, about 40% of low and … Continue reading
Posted in curriculum, Inclusion, Language, legal rights, Uncategorized
Tagged 2020 GEM Report, Inclusion, inclusive education
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Educating for the social, the emotional and the sustainable
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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Tagged afghanistan, curriculum, lebanon, SDG 4, target 4.7, teachers, teaching, textbooks
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Good news: Chile is going to cover climate change in its curriculum
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
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Gender stereotypes in Bangladeshi school textbooks
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
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A racist education
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
Posted in Conflict, curriculum, Democracy, Ethnicity, Human rights, Uncategorized
Tagged conflict, curriculum, human rights, racism, south africa
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How would education suffer without aid from the USA?
Last week, White House officials said that President Trump would increase military spending by $54 billion, taking funds from domestic programs and foreign aid to pay the bill. What would a total cut of all USA aid for education mean? … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, curriculum, Democracy, Developed countries, Developing countries, peace, Uncategorized
Tagged aid, funding, peace
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Peru has a new ‘rose-tinted’ curriculum
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, Â 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
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Citizenship Education in Morocco: How civil society organizations can help
Elarbi Imad, President, Moroccan Center for Civic Education Recently, there has been growing interest in citizenship education across the world. With the rise of the Arab Spring there has been recognition within Morocco that citizenship education can help equip youth … Continue reading
Posted in curriculum, textbooks, Uncategorized, Youth
Tagged global citizenship, morocco, sdg 4.7, target 4.7, textbooks
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