Georg Arnhold International Summer Conference: Decolonizing Peace Education
The five-day long Summer Conference (August 29-September 2) will bring together early-career scholars, senior researchers, and practitioners from around the world.
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Graines de Paix seeks new Director
Graines de Paix is hiring its Director to lead forward its growing operations. He/she will be responsible for operations and administration, driving the healthy growth of the organisation in response to the current societal challenges regarding education and societal cohesion. Application deadline: February 7.
Education for safety, resilience and social cohesion: Curriculum
This curriculum resource kit provides practical tools, strategies and guidance on addressing safety, resilience and social cohesion in curriculum design, review and implementation, including for curriculum, textbooks, and teacher trainers.
Virtual Peace Table: Rethinking Education Video
“Rethinking Education,” one of the three Virtual Peace Tables offered by GPPAC on the International Day of Peace, brought together changemakers to reimagine what education systems could look like if we put social cohesion, imagination, and critical thinking at its core. The event recording is now available.
Building social cohesion through arts education (Nigeria / Namibia)
The InSEA SEMINAR hosted by the Society for Arts Education in Namibia (SAEN) sought to foster dialogue and sharing of praxis and research about education through art on the theme of “Building Social Cohesion through Arts Education.”
Curriculum resource kit: education for safety, resilience and social cohesion
This curriculum resource kit, developed by the International Institute for Educational Planning, provides practical tools, strategies and guidance on addressing safety, resilience and social cohesion in curriculum design, review and implementation, including for curriculum, textbooks, and teacher trainers.
Community-based learning for sustainable development
To stress to policymakers and other stakeholders the wide and far-reaching benefits of community-based learning, particularly in the light of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning has published a new policy brief, “Community-based learning for sustainable development.” This policy brief advances six principles of action to develop the role of community learning centres as the main delivery mechanism for community-based learning: responding, engaging, enabling, embedding, sustaining and transforming.
Citizenship Education & Social Cohesion in Lebanon
The Centre for Lebanese Studies has conducted a series of research projects and programs that aimed to examine the role of education in promoting social cohesion.