Development Education
Jeunes refugies africains: construire l`avenir -5 May 2010
*Un dossier pedagogique pour les eleves des ecoles secondaires *Une vidéo (67 minutes) et un support de cours pour l’enseignant
COM_TAG_READ_MOREBonnes Pratiques pour l'insertion economique des personnes handicapees dans les pays en developpemen -10 May 2010
*Presenter des bonnes practiques permettant de garantir l'efficacite et la perennite des mecanismes de financement pour l'auto-emploi des victimes de mines et des personnes handicapees en general
COM_TAG_READ_MOREMinimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crises and Early Reconstruction -10 May 2010
*Handbook founded on the Convention of the Rights of the Child, the Dakar 2000 Education for All goals and the Sphere Project's Humanitarian Charter *Standards meant for capacity-building and training tool for humanitarian agencies, governments, and local populations to enhance the quality of their educational assistance
COM_TAG_READ_MOREWhy Eat Green Cucumber at the Time of Dying? Exploring the link between women's literacy and develop -10 May 2010
*Explores the link between women's literacy and development from a Nepal Perspective *Challenges the assumption that women's literacy rates can be measure and correlated with statistical indicators of development, such as child mortality or fertily rates
COM_TAG_READ_MOREEducation, Conflict and Social Cohesion: Studies in Comparative Education -11 May 2010
*Compilation of essays exploring how education contributes to social and civic reconstruction, particularly in societes emerging form violent internanal conflict *Case studies include curriculum development in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Guatemala, Lebanon, Mozambique, Northern Ireland, Rwanda, and Sri Lanka
COM_TAG_READ_MOREHolistic Education Resource Book: Learning and Teaching in an Ecumenical Context -14 May 2010
*Resource book that includes texts, comments, and extracts about holistic education from various regions of the world and many pedagogical approaches and projects *Includes both theoretical and practical contributions
COM_TAG_READ_MOREGeneral Comments of the Committee on the Rights of the Child -17 May 2010
*Includes CD with Concluding Observations *Includes General Comments No. 1- No. 8 (2001-2006): The Aims of Education; The Role of Independent National Human Rights Institutions in the promotioon and protection of the rights of the child; HIV/AIDS and the rights of the child; Adolescent Health and Development in the contesxt of the Convention on the Rights of the Child; Treatment of Unaccompanied and Separated Children; Implementing child rights in Early Childhood; The right of the Child to protection from corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment *Includes other materials for the CRC at 18
COM_TAG_READ_MOREForced Migration Review Supplement -20 May 2010
*Articles on education and conflict: research, policy and practice
COM_TAG_READ_MORETextbooks and Quality Learning For All: Some Lessons Learned from International Experiences -21 May 2010
*Includes chapters on the role of textbooks in a modern education system, research findings, and case studies in Romania, Macedonia, Sri Lanka, Azerbaijan, China, Brazil, Russia, and Rwanda
COM_TAG_READ_MORELearning to Educate: Proposals for the Reconstruction of Education in Latin America -21 May 2010
*Includes a close examination of learning and teaching in the classroom, the administration of schools and school districts, the management of systems of education in ministries, and the poltical processes that genderate educational policy and law and consensus
COM_TAG_READ_MOREManaging Teachers: The centrality of teacher management to quality education -21 May 2010
*Report with lessons from developing countries
COM_TAG_READ_MOREDiscussion on the UNESCO Initiative: Basic Education in Africa Programme (BEAP) -25 May 2010
*Flier on Side Event taking place at the 48th Session of the International Conference on Education (25-28 November 2008)
COM_TAG_READ_MOREGuidelines for Inclusion: Ensuring Access to Education for All -25 May 2010
*Living document which serves as a dynamic tool of analysis which will be revised in the coming years to reflect the reality of marginalized and excluded children
COM_TAG_READ_MOREInclusive Education: Where there are few resources -25 May 2010
*Provides a background and critical overview of key issues, concepts and strategies in relation to inclusive education that are relevant to situations where economic resources and access to information is limited
COM_TAG_READ_MOREFirst Collection of Good Practices for Quality Education -25 May 2010
*Includes good practices for quality education at school level (Inclusive education, education for sustainable development, education in support of intercultural dialogue, and human rights education), national level (Haiti), regional level (Asia-Pacific), inter-regional level (Great Volga River Route), and international level (Mondialogo School Contest) *Inclues annexes of UN Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and Education For All (EFA) Goals
COM_TAG_READ_MOREImproving the Quality of Mother Tongue-based Literacy and Learning -26 May 2010
*Case Studies from Asia, Africa and South America
COM_TAG_READ_MOREAchieving the Millennium Development Goals -10 January 2011
The Millennium Declaration represents a historic global commitment, which recognizes that, given today's wealth and technological achievements, permiting mass poverty and hunger to countinue is no longer acceptable to the international community. The Summit reinforced the political momentum and focus on poverty, and helped create a new global partnership for development.
COM_TAG_READ_MOREChildren Media and Consumption -10 January 2011
Many computer games, cartoons and programmes are a form of advertising in themselves inasmuch as they are the vehicles for 'merchandising' to youthful viewers. Product trade-marks and logotypes are a nearly universal lingua franca today, a vocabulary shared by young of all classes in a good part of the world.
COM_TAG_READ_MOREYoung People Soap Operas and reality TV -10 January 2011
The transformation of the traditional soap opera into certain more extreme soaps, and the emergence of the recent 'global' reality TV formats have whipped up storms of controversy in a great number of countries. Such programmes have also generated worries among adults about how they are received by, and may influence, young viewers - because children from all over the world watch adult programming from an early age.
COM_TAG_READ_MOREIn the Service of Young People? Studies and reflections on media in the digital Age -10 January 2011
During the past decades, the media landscape and media culture have undergone major changes. Modern information technologiy has given rise to a constanly increasing supply of media products through many news channels, and our perceptions of time and space, the bound between private and public, central and peripheral, have change.
COM_TAG_READ_MOREYoung People and gendered Media Messages -10 January 2011
In this report, the International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media directs its attention to gendered media messages. The contribution of media to the maintenance of the gender order is particularly important to study, considering the situation of children and young people, who have constant access to today’s extensive media output through a multitude of different channels.
COM_TAG_READ_MORE80 Million Lives, Meeting the Millennium Development Goals in child and maternal survival -11 January 2011
This report argues that the failures in healthcare over the last decade have been the result of flawed analysis and lack of political will. If we are to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) we must now absorb the lessons we have learned, and refocus our attention on broad-based, sectorally-coordinated, primary healthcare (PHC) system development, located within a rights-based framework, to which all governments must give their commitment.
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