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Co-organized by the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding under the auspices of UNESCO (APCEIU), the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, and in partnership with UNESCO, the 4th International Conference on GCED: Platform on Pedagogy and Practice will be held on 3-4 September 2019 at Seoul Dragon City Hotel Complex (Yongsan) in Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Global Citizenship Education (GCED) aims to equip learners of all ages with knowledge, values, skills, and attitudes so that they can live together peacefully and become active and responsible citizens who will work together to tackle today’s pressing challenges. Through GCED, learners nurture respect for diversity and foster solidarity on the basis of a sense of belonging to a common humanity. With its incorporation under target 4.7 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it has been given fresh impetus as one of the key topics to be mainstreamed in education at all levels by 2030. As a result, APCEIU has organized an International Conference to promote GCED global implementation network, an educational goal adopted by the UN and UNESCO. 

APCEIU has organized annual international conferences on GCED since 2016. The conferences have dealt with topics ‘GCED for SDGs: From Commitment to Action,’ ‘In Pursuit of GCED in a Challenging Environment,’ and ‘GCED in Every Corner of the World: Local-Contextualization of GCED.’

The 4th International Conference on GCED in 2019 will focus on ‘Reconciliation, Peace, and Global Citizenship Education.’ This conference aims to demonstrate GCED’s unique potential in relation to reconciliation and solidarity, and that this potential can be fully harnessed first through promoting the use of transformative pedagogy, and second, by systematically mainstreaming GCED in terms of policy, curriculum and teacher training.

Approximately more than 600 people policy makers, teachers, and experts from academia, international organizations, and NGOs are expected to participate.

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