UNESCO education - Colorful Moments- Europe queer living initiative

Inclusive education means that all people can participate in high-quality education and develop their full potential. While the term “inclusion” is often only used in a narrower sense in the context of people with a diagnosed need for support, UNESCO firmly advocates a broad definition of inclusion that includes all people. Neither gender, social or economic conditions nor special learning needs should prevent a person from developing their potential.

World heritage education is fundamentally aimed at everyone and not just one or a few target groups. World heritage education must therefore always be diverse - in its goals and target groups, in its methods and starting points. Quality education (“quality of education”) is education that achieves the acquisition of relevant knowledge and skills, promotes stable emotional development and instills the core values of the United Nations. These values include respect for human rights, democracy, peace, freedom and tolerance as well as cultural diversity, ecological responsibility, social justice and economic participation. The UNESCO concepts of Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Education do this with different focuses. Through its implementation, (world heritage) education contributes to people living together in a fair, ecologically responsible and peaceful manner.

Global Citizenship Education is political education on a global scale. It imparts knowledge and skills to understand global challenges and actively address them. Learners should be able to develop a sense of belonging to the global community, to get involved and to take an active role in society in order to contribute to a peaceful, just world in which ecological resources are conserved.

Central challenges such as migration, climate change, digitalization and securing peace are global in nature and cannot be overcome within a national framework alone. A socially just, peaceful and ecologically sustainable development of society is a task for all of humanity.

Global Citizenship Education does not view local and global identity as contradictory, but rather combines both aspects. The emphasis is on promoting understanding of the interactions between local and global action.

Global Citizenship Education offers an overarching framework for existing political education concepts that UNESCO advocates, including peace and democracy education, human rights education and the prevention of violent extremism (PVE). The added value of GCED results from the fact that different educational concepts are thought together, so that a new perspective on well-known (global) social challenges is created.