You are here

Resources

EIU Best Practice Series No. 28: Shaping student behaviors through global education for a sustainable future in Pakistan
Place of publication | Year of publication | Collation: 
Seoul | 2012 | 53p
Author: 
Nasreen Iqbal
Corporate author: 
Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU)
Region: 
Asia and the Pacific

Issue No. 28 introduces a Global Education programme with its various activities from Grammar School Rawalpindi in Pakistan. It aims to enable and empower young people to become responsible and humane citizens to achieve a peaceful and sustainable future. It is targeted at all levels of students, including preschool level, to increase their awareness of social and civic values. The programme mainly focuses on EIU while equipping learners with conflict resolution skills, cultural and national identities and global citizenship. Also, it incorporates issues such as universal values, human rights, health, sustainable development, gender, multiculturalism, respect for minority groups, identity and self-worth, tolerance, etc. into the school ethos and curriculum so that the students will be able to perform positive changes on national as well as on international level.

Resource Type: 
Research papers / journal articles
Theme: 
Civic / Citizenship / Democracy
Globalisation and social justice / International understanding
Peace / Culture of peace
Keywords: 
education for international understanding
civic education
peace