INSIDE
       

   

BOOKSHELF


LEARNING WORLD
Windows on life
Power to the people
University Students Tackle
illiteracy


FOCUS
Education for War
or for Peace

INTERVIEW
Learning peace in Rwanda
Combating discriminbation in Chile
The risk of losing our
humanity


EDUCATION FOR ALL
Parliamentarians Campaign for EFA
The EFA 'doctors'
Support EFA, Celebrate EFA Week !
3 questions to Simon Ellis
World tour


BRIEFS
Education initiatives
around the world

Latin America's Education
Draw me Peace
Mind your language
Pipeline to learning
The value of experience
Street children dream
50 candles for UIE

BOOKSHELF

AGENDA

   

Education for All: Guidelines for Preparing Gender Responsive EFA Plans.
These guidelines have been prepared to raise awareness among planners about a number of aspects to be considered in producing plans for the the achievement of gender equality in education. For more details, contact UNICEF or UNESCO locally, or the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in Bangkok;
e-mail: gender@unesco-proap.org

Education and Afghan Society in the Twentieth Century
by Saif R. Samady analyses the shaping of Afghan education, tracing the historical, socio-cultural, economic, political influences,
and educational policies. (UNESCO doc. ED-2001/WS/41). Available in print and PDF version (www.unesco.org/afghanistan).

Making Knowledge Work - The Enhancement of Learning and Training Opportunities for Marginalized Youth through Non-formal Education.
Focusing on eight pilot projects, this booklet demonstrates how literacy and training for marginalized youth contributes to fighting poverty.

Shapshots of Primary and Secondary Education in Asia-Pacific reflects the range of imaginative initiatives produced in the Asia-Pacific region and examines fourteen projects in depth. (Educational Innovation for Development, 1) 73 pp. Available from UNESCO Bangkok; e-mail: bangkok@memo.unesco.org; www.unescobkk.org

Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century: Vision and Action
This CD ROM comprises the main working documents in English and French of the World Conference on Higher Education (UNESCO, October 1998).

Caring for People Living with HIV and AIDS presents essays by some twenty secondary school students in Namibia who describe their experiences about how HIV/AIDS has affected their lives. Produced by UNESCO Namibia, The Namibian Youth Paper, UNAIDS and Family Health International. Available from UNESCO Windhoek; e-mail: windhoek@unesco.org

A Global Perspective on Early Childhood Care and Education: A Proposed Model by Lillemyr, Fagerli and Sobstad of Queen Maud's College of Early childhood Education (Norway). (Action Research in Family and Early Childhood - Monograph 17, 2001, UNESCO doc. ED-2001/WS/39).

Foundations of Child Well-Being by Pollard and Davidson, Center for Child Well-Being, USA. This monograph looks at children's well-being holistically, integrating physical, cognitive and social-emotional dimensions. (Action Research in Family and Early Childhood - Monograph 18, 2001, UNESCO doc. ED-2001/WS/40).

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Unless otherwise stated, all publications are available free of charge from UNESCO's Documentation and Information Service, Education Sector. E-mail: oai@unesco.org

 


     
Education Today is a quarterly newsletter on trends and innovations in education, on world-wide efforts towards Education for All and on UNESCO's own education activities. It is published by UNESCO's Education Sector in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish and Russian. All articles are free of copyright restrictions and can be reproduced provided Education Today is credited.
Editors: Anne Muller and Teresa Murtagh
Contributing editor: Agnès Bardon - Assistant: Martine Kayser - Design: Pilote Corporate -Layout: Sylvaine Baeyens
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