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Here you can find a selection of documents intended to facilitate the introduction of Global Citizenship Education in schools and their curricula.

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Guidelines and reference documents

This UNESCO report explores the urgency of rethinking education in the context of current and future global challenges, proposing a new social contract that promotes equity, sustainability and inclusiveness.

Guidelines and reference documents

This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. All countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership, will implement this plan.

GCE experiences

The Netherlands is an internationally oriented country, and that is mirrored in our education system. Almost every school pays at least some attention to global citizenship, but they rarely do so in a systematic fashion. Global citizenship is usually introduced through specific projects and the link to the rest of the curriculum is not consistently emphasised. How can schools reinforce […]

Guidelines and reference documents

The UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet) in Action: Global Citizens for Sustainable Development student guide aims to introduce secondary school students to Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and provide them with ideas and activities to contribute proactively to a more peaceful and sustainable world.

GCE experiences

You want to start teaching global citizenship. You could take advantage of materials that are already available instead of developing them yourself. That would save you time, and there are plenty of options for a wide variety of ages, levels and subjects. However, you could also decide to develop a lesson plan yourself. This handbook has some suggestions to help […]

Guidelines and reference documents

UNESCO has been promoting Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) since 1992. Education systems must respond to this pressing need by defining relevant learning objectives and learning contents, introducing pedagogies that empower learners, and urging their institutions to include sustainability principles in their management structures.

GCE experiences

There is an enormous variety of people and cultures in the world. Even the tiny country of the Netherlands has a wide diversity. Whether you teach in a village or a city, or in the inner city or the suburbs, your students come into contact with that cultural diversity on a daily basis. You can pay attention to that diversity […]

Guidelines and reference documents

Actioning a recommendation in the National Strategy for Education for Sustainable Development (2014-2020), in 2018 the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment published a study mapping the eight key competences for sustainable development onto early childhood to post-primary curriculum frameworks in Ireland

Guidelines and reference documents

The new GEG introduces methodological approaches to support GE measurement and monitoring. The structure of the document has been designed to reinforce its practical use and enable formal and non-formal educators to tackle different aspects of GE in a training/learning context and its evaluation.

GCE experiences

A brief illustration of the steps through which the strategy of Global Citizenship Education (here called GDE – Global Development Education) has become part of the institutional policies in the Czech Republic, one of the most advanced countries in this path.

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