SDG4 Quality Education

Integrating Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Teacher Education in South-East Asia

This guidebook, Integrating Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Teacher Education in South-East Asia, takes readers through a step-by-step action research approach to integrate ESD in teacher education programmes and practices. It is hoped that this guidebook will be a relevant resource for deans of education, curriculum developers and other teacher trainers/educators who can adapt it for use in local contexts. 

UNESCO Publication: Issues and Trends in Education for Sustainable Development

This recently released UNESCO publication presents an overview of ESD and highlights key issues, trends, and challenges related to ESD policy and practice. Topics include key ESD competencies and themes, policy, changes in the learning environment, teacher training, youth as lead actors, scaling-up action, and the monitoring of progress towards SDG Target 4.7. It is aimed at providing policy-makers, educators, and other stakeholders with state-of-the-art analyses of ESD and associated issues.

Preparing Teachers for Global Citizenship Education: A Template

Preparing Teachers for Global Citizenship Education: A Template is a response to a demand from teacher educators and teachers for practical information and tips on how they can embed Global Citizenship Education (GCED) into their teaching practices. This publication presents a conceptual framework for transformative education, illustrates the art of teaching GCED with examples of creative pedagogies, provides exemplars to demonstrate how GCED can be integrated into different subject areas, and refers readers to a rich list of resources. 

Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop for Youth Leadership Training on Education for Sustainable Development

Highlights of the field trip undertaken during the Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop for Youth Leadership Training on Education for Sustainable Development, organized by UNESCO Bangkok from 15 to 17 November 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand.

For more information about the training: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0025/002527/252799e.pdf

Policy Coherence for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience: From Evidence to Implementation

Disaster risk reduction and resilience is crucial to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Embedded across the SDGs, disaster risk reduction is an enabler of more than a dozen goals spanning food security, human health, infrastructure, and ecosystem-related targets. Enhancing policy coherence among the SDGs and across the 2030 Development Agendas requires an approach that can be adapted to the specific circumstances, context and needs of countries.

Towards an Innovative Demand-Driven Global Strategy for Education Data

The collection and analysis of good quality data to track progress in education across the world are vital to ensure that no one is left behind. According to a 2016 inventory undertaken by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), the world currently gathers only half of the data needed to monitor progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) targets.