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Este libro explica porque es necesario incluir en el curriculo de primaria y secundaria oportunidades para que los estudiantes desarrollen las competencias que les permitan desarrollarse como ciudadanos globales. El libro incluye una metodologia para hacer de la educacion para la ciudadania global una prioridad en la escuela, asi como una metodologia para desarrollar curriculo alineado con los Objetivos de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo Sustentable y sesenta lecciones producto de utilizar dicha metodologia.

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 ...

Este libro examina diversas formas de entender la relación entre la investigación educativa y la formulación de políticas educativas. A partir de un análisis del campo de la planificación educativa, los autores problematizan las formas tradicionales de conceptualizar la planificación como distinta a la implementación de políticas y programas, y proponen tres maneras de teorizar la relación entre estos dos procesos como parte de un ciclo mas amplio de aprendizaje organizacional en el cual los diversos interlocutores que participan en el cambio educativo aprenden colectivamente como...

La invitación a ocupar el cargo de ministro de educación y a liderar una reforma ambiciosa del sistema educativo nunca llega con un manual de instrucciones. Para acometer una tarea de este tipo es necesario tener acceso a los mejores conocimientos sobre cómo implantar cambios educativos con la profundidad necesaria. En este libro, los ministros de educación y máximos responsables de los sistemas educativos de quince países comparten los conocimientos que han adquirido a través de las audaces reformas adoptadas para transformar la educación pública en sus países y para que sus ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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. ...

As the COVID-19 Pandemic ravages the planet changes big and small are changing human lives and our future prospects. Among those changes, few other than the discovery and effective distribution of a vaccine will be as consequential as the changes taking place in our schools. The disruption to our schools could cause the biggest education setback in history, gravely impacting the lives of students, their future prospects, their communities and widening inequality in unprecedented ways. This is a crucible moment for education, one that will test our resolve and collective commitment to 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 ...

La pandemia de Covid-19 provocó importantes interrupciones en la educación en todo el mundo. Desde que la Organización Mundial de la Salud declaró una pandemia el 11 de marzo de 2020, la mayoría de los estudiantes del planeta se vieron afectados por la interrupción de la escolarización presencial. Para mitigar la pérdida educativa que causaría tal interrupción, las autoridades educativas de todo el mundo crearon una variedad de mecanismos alternativos de educación. Lo hicieron rápidamente y con un conocimiento insuficiente sobre lo que funcionaría bien, para qué niños y para ...

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.

The book examines the impact of COVID-19 on education three years since the pandemic started. It presents the work of students in a course of comparative education policy analysis we taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in the fall of 2022 as they worked with education authorities in various countries. The chapters in this book demonstrate that the COVID-19 pandemic dealt a severe blow to educational opportunities across the world. This was not just because of the shock caused by the health emergency, but also because of the fragility of school systems to sustain educational ...

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 ...

The global movement to educate all children has produced one of the most remarkable silent revolutions experienced by humanity, integrating most children and youth into institutions invented to pass on to them what each generation considers valuable, and to help them develop the competencies to improve the world. Changes in a range of domains, from technology to politics, from the ways in which we communicate and associate, to the ways in which we produce goods and services, continue to expand our aspirations for how schools should prepare the young to invent the future. There is much ...

Este libro recoge las reflexiones de varios lideres educativos en relación con el informe Reimaginar Juntos Nuestro Futuro. Un Nuevo Contrato Social para la Educación (Comisión Internacional sobre los Futuros de la Educación 2021). Este informe es el resultado de tres años de trabajo de la Comisión Internacional Sobre los Futuros de la Educación a petición de la UNESCO. El informe plantea la necesidad de un nuevo contrato social para la educación y para lograrlo invita a un amplio y participativo diálogo entre actores diversos, en cada jurisdicción, comunidad e institución ...

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 ...

A medida que los países de todo el mundo adoptan objetivos más ambiciosos para las escuelas, con el fin de preparar a los estudiantes para las exigencias de un mundo en rápida evolución, hay un interés creciente en la cuestión de cómo apoyar mejor a los maestros para que puedan ensenar de forma eficaz para alcanzar esas aspiraciones. Este libro es un análisis de seis programas que aspiran a desarrollar las competencias de los maestros de escuelas públicas para apoyar eficazmente el desarrollo de competencias de sus estudiantes en una ambiciosa gama de dominios cognitivos y ...

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.