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How do we help students work effectively with others from diverse cultural backgrounds? How do we help them understand the world? How do we prepare them for work and life in an era of globalization, volatility, and uncertainty? Empowering Global Citizens offers educators and parents compelling answers to those questions. This book presents The World Course, a curriculum on global citizenship education designed to equip students with the competencies they need to thrive and contribute to sustainable development in an era of globalization. Drawing on curriculum mapping this book offers a ...

This book offers three tools to assist student, teachers and school leaders in educating global citizens. The first is a protocol to design and adapt global citizenship curriculum. The second is a protocol to design a school wide strategy for global education. The third is an actual curriculum prototype, a sixty lesson global citizenship curriculum, developed following the process presented in the book.

This book presents work undertaken by students in the course "Education Policy Analysis and Research in Comparative Perspective," taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This project-based graduate course provides students with the opportunity to learn and conduct education policy analysis for a real-world client in a collaborative setting. Working in teams, students partner with education authorities to analyze policies on issues that are significant to them. This pedagogical approach envisions professional preparation as an induction into a professional community of practice. ...

This book presents two lessons for use in college or high school, to educate students on the mission and work of UNESCO as it relates to the advancement of Human Rights. The book contains also a number of essays on Human Rights.

En un pequeño pueblo cerca de la ciudad de Boston vive Filomena, una periquita que tiene 12 años de edad. Filomena es muy observadora de la gente y el mundo que la rodea. Así descubre que su universo es mucho más grande que la jaula en la que vive y que la vida puede ser una maravillosa aventura si así lo anhelamos.

The world is changing rapidly. Globalization and technological innovation have created new opportunities and challenges for individuals, communities and nations. With these changes it has become necessary to revisit to what extent children and youth are being prepared to be effective and productive citizens and workers, and to what extent they are equipped not just to understand the future, but to invent it. In the 21st century the skills and dispositions necessary to live meaningful lives, to participate socially, civically and economically, have expanded from those which were sufficient ...

In this fourth book in the series, Filomena meets Andria, a teacher who teaches students who have left their home countries and become refugees. As the teaches them how to gain voice through the arts, Andria and Filomena discover how much these students can teach them.

How can schools prepare students to address the challenges of inequality and climate change? How can different groups collaborate to improve education drawing on the insights of comparative analysis and research? The twenty-five chapters in these two volumes provide answers to those questions. Drawing on the work of a hundred Harvard graduate students in the course ‘Education Policy Analysis and Research in Comparative Perspective’, in collaboration with educators in many schools and school systems around the world, the book illustrates the power of an analytic approach to examine the ...

How can schools prepare students to address the challenges of inequality and climate change? How can different groups collaborate to improve education drawing on the insights of comparative analysis and research? The twenty-five chapters in these two volumes provide answers to those questions. Drawing on the work of a hundred Harvard graduate students in the course ‘Education Policy Analysis and Research in Comparative Perspective’, in collaboration with educators in many schools and school systems around the world, the book illustrates the power of an analytic approach to examine the ...

In a small town near the city of Boston lives Filomena, a 12-year-old parakeet. As she pays close attention to the people and to the world around her, Filomena discovers her universe is much bigger than the cage in which she lives and that life can be a wonderful adventure if we choose to make it so. Join Filomena in her adventures as she fights a pirate in an imaginary ship, remembers growing up with two children, and helps us see the world through her small eyes and her big heart.

No verão, Filomena vai ao jardim encontrar um grupo diversificado de amigos que enriquecem sua vida. Por meio de suas conversas, Filomena aprende sobre a longa viagem de ida e volta ao México que alguns dos pássaros e borboletas do jardim fazem a cada ano. Ela gosta de ver os esquilos e os pássaros se revezarem enquanto se alimentam no comedouro de pássaros que fica pendurado em um poste. No entanto, Liberdade, um gaia-azul, não entende por que ela precisa considerar as outras aves enquanto se satisfaz no comedouro.

En un pequeño pueblo cerca de la ciudad de Boston vive Filomena, una periquita que tiene doce años. En el primer libro de esta serie, Filomena descubre que todos vemos el mundo a través de una perspectiva y que la observación cuidadosa es una poderosa herramienta que nos permite comprender cómo los demás ven el mundo. En este segundo libro, durante el verano, Filomena vuela al jardín donde tiene un grupo muy variado de amigos que enriquecen su vida.

In a small town near the city of Boston lives Filomena, a 12-year-old parakeet. In the first book in this series Filomena discovers that we all see the world through a frame of mind, and that observation is a powerful tool to help us understand how others see the world. In the second book in the series, Filomena spends many days in the garden during the summer with a diverse group of friends who enrich her life. They discover together how much friends, working together, can achieve.

Em uma pequena cidade perto da cidade de Boston, nos Estados Unidos, vive Filomena, uma periquita de doze anos de idade. Neste quarto livro da série, Filomena se encontra com Andria, uma professora que ensina estudantes que deixaram seus países de origem e se tornaram refugiados. À medida que ela os ensina a ganhar voz através das artes, Andria e Filomena descobrem o quanto esses alunos podem ensiná-los.

En un pequeño pueblo cerca de la ciudad de Boston vive Filomena, una periquita de 12 años de edad. En este cuarto audiolibro en la serie, Filomena conoce a Andria, una maestra que enseña a estudiantes que han salido de sus países y son refugiados. Andria les ensena a expresarse a través del arte, ella y Filomena descubren cuanto pueden aprender de estos estudiantes.

Em uma pequena cidade perto da cidade de Boston, nos Estados Unidos, vive Filomena, um periquito de doze anos de idade. No primeiro livro desta série, Filomena descobre que todos nós vemos o mundo de uma perspectiva e que a observação é uma ferramenta poderosa para nos ajudar a entender como os outros vêem o mundo. No segundo livro da série, Filomena passa muitos dias no jardim durante o verão com um grupo diverso de amigos que dão um significado a sua vida.

In the summer, Filomena goes to the garden where she has a diverse group of friends who enrich her life. Through their conversations, Filomena learns about the long journey to and back from Mexico, which some of the birds and butterflies in the garden take each year. She enjoys seeing the squirrels, and the birds take turns eating from the bird feeder that hangs from a lamppost. However, Liberty, the blue jay, does not see why she needs to be considered with other birds as she eats her fill. But she is in for a surprise that will help her understand how much friends can achieve.

Em uma pequena cidade perto da cidade de Boston vive Filomena, uma periquita de 12 anos de idade. Enquanto ela presta muita atenção às pessoas e ao mundo ao seu redor, Filomena descobre que seu universo é muito maior do que a gaiola em que vive, e que a vida pode ser uma aventura maravilhosa, se assim decidirmos.

The Covid-19 pandemic caused major disruptions to education around the world. Since the World Health Organization declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, most students on the planet were affected by the interruption of in-person schooling. To mitigate the educational loss such interruption would cause, education authorities the world over created a variety of alternative mechanisms of education delivery. They did so quickly and with insufficient knowledge about what would work well, for which children, and for what aspects of the schooling experience.Having to create such alternative ...

This is a study of the leadership challenges faced by those working to advance global educational opportunities. The book discusses how the dramatic expansion in educational opportunities which has taken place over the last century was the result of a global movement committed to advancing freedom and equality. This movement is now challenged by an emerging populist strand which will simultaneously challenge the institutions of democracy, public education and higher education. This context calls for more intentional efforts to cultivate leadership which can take the global education ...