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Moving Towards Intercultural Understanding

Moving Towards Intercultural Understanding. Teaching and Learning in an Interdependent World. ECO/SOC 4. UNESCO. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

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Moving Towards Intercultural Understanding

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  1. Moving Towards Intercultural Understanding Teaching and Learning in an Interdependent World ECO/SOC 4

  2. UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization contributes to peace and security by promoting international collaboration througheducation, science, and culture UNESCO Homepage

  3. MEMBER STATES UNESCO is a partnership of 193 Member States, or countries who have pledged to help the UN in matters of Education, Science, and Culture.

  4. UNESCO: EDUCATIONAL GOALS Creating societies with educational opportunities for all populations Providing partnerships to strengthen national educational leadership Expanding the capacity of countries to offer quality education for all UNESCO's Education Mission Statement

  5. EDUCATION CURRENTUNITED NATIONS PROGRAMS Education for All:Six goals adopted in the Dakar Framework for Action 2000-2015 UN Millennium Development Goals:Goal 2 and Goal 3 UNLD: increase literacy levels of people everywhere, United Nations Literacy Decade DOE Sustainable Development: Develop practices which help sustain education and learning UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014

  6. Expected World Illiteracy Rates: 2015

  7. UNESCO: CULTURAL GOALS Promoting cultural diversity and dialogue among peoples for social cohesion and reconciliation Demonstrating the importance of establishing a culture of peace Protecting and enhancing cultural heritage UNESCO's Mission Statement on Culture

  8. CULTURE CURRENTUNITED NATIONS PROGRAMS Cultural Diversity Action: Ensuring peaceful coexistence and defending diverse creativity, Action in Favor of Cultural Diversity World Heritage Convention:ensure conservation of sites and monuments of cultural heritage, World Heritage Armed Conflict, Illicit Trafficking, Emergency Situations:protecting movable and intangible heritage, Movable HeritageIntangible Heritage 2005 Convention: strengthens five links: creation, production, distribution, access and enjoyment of cultural expressions; Cultural Expression

  9. Intangible heritage Movable heritage Museums and immovable heritage

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