Global Working Group on Health Literacy/Life Skills/Social Inclusion
The FRESH Partners have established a Global Working Group to develop advice on how global agencies and countries/states can address the challenge of promoting knowledge, skills and attitudes on a wide variety of basic education, health and social issues within the core curricula/programs promoting health and personal development (HPSD). The project will address three over-arching areas of knowledge and skills; including basic literacy in the many topics related to health and safety, life, social and coping skills, and social inclusion values/beliefs such as global citizenship, social responsibility and sustainable development, The project will seek to identify feasible minimum learning outputs for school systems in three different contexts; high resource, low resource and conflict/disaster-affected. Please see the Terms of Reference for this Working Group here. An important part of the FRESH WG process includes a Canadian/global project on preventing violent extremism. This sub-set of activities will create a research/knowledge development agenda (see the working draft/outline) on how several strategies and programs promoting social inclusion can be adapted and combined to prevent violent extremism, alienation, violence and other anti-social behaviours. This advice will be useful in developing indicators that can be integrated within the UN Sustainable Development Goal #4.7, where the targets remain somewhat vague and incomplete. The advice will also be useful because most of the research and program development in HPSD education has been driven by topic-specific funding that defines the optimal learning for those issues. This project will start with what is feasible and realistic for all students to achieve in the three different contexts through a core curriculum, co-curricular activities/routines and non-formal learning. The project will also examine what is feasible and measurable in the emerging models of cross-curricular, competency-based learning now being used in several high resource countries. The process will begin in January 2018 and be conducted over several months primarily through on-line and web-based activities. The goal of the project is to develop or initiate processes that describe realistic benchmarks for countries/states and UN agencies relative to the three types of contexts. The outputs from the Work Group will include:
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Recorded web meetings
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Reports/Papers/Concept Notes
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