UNESCO MGIEP's Annual Report 2020
2020 was indeed a very tough year for all of us. People across the globe were forced into the new normal: lockdowns, shutdowns, and travel bans. Families were separated. Millions fell sick and so many lives were lost. More than 1 billion children were affected by school closures. At UNESCO MGIEP, we analysed the impact of COVID-19 on our programs and pivoted our strategy to ensure that we continued to engage with educators, policymakers and the youth through various online initiatives to build a better, sustainable world for times to come.
2020 was indeed a very tough year for all of us. People across the globe were forced into the new normal: lockdowns, shutdowns, and travel bans. Families were separated. Millions fell sick and so many lives were lost. More than 1 billion children were affected by school closures. At UNESCO MGIEP, we analysed the impact of COVID-19 on our programs and pivoted our strategy to ensure that we continued to engage with educators, policymakers and the youth through various online initiatives to build a better, sustainable world for times to come.
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<strong>UNESCO</strong> MGIEP <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> | <strong>2020</strong><br />
Some representative results of the projects implemented<br />
in <strong>2020</strong> are displayed in the images below.<br />
1. Global Citizenship<br />
2. Digital Intercultural Dialogue<br />
KNOWLEDGE<br />
PERSPECTIVE TAKING<br />
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EMPATHY MINDFULNESS COMPASSION<br />
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75<br />
73<br />
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67<br />
65<br />
Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post<br />
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The figure above shows the results of an<br />
intervention in which 189 experimental group<br />
students from India, Afghanistan and Bhutan<br />
undertook the Global Citizenship course (an<br />
8-week course that helped them build knowledge<br />
of contemporary global citizenship themes such<br />
as identity, migration, governance, citizenship,<br />
etc.). The course was implemented on FrameSpace<br />
(www.framerspace.com), MGIEP’s interactive<br />
online platform and focused on building social<br />
and emotional competencies of Empathy,<br />
Mindfulness, Compassion and Critical Inquiry<br />
(EMC 2 ) to build global citizens. Statistical analysis<br />
on pre and post assessment scores of three SEL<br />
competencies – empathy, mindfulness and<br />
compassion indicated a significant difference post<br />
the intervention.<br />
The figure above shows the effects of a digital<br />
dialogic intervention undertaken by 229<br />
experimental group students from India, Bhutan<br />
and South Africa. During the 8-week online course,<br />
students engaged in dialogue on important<br />
global issues and focused on building perspective<br />
taking skills and knowledge of inter-cultural<br />
understanding. Statistical analysis on pre and<br />
post assessment scores of knowledge and attitude<br />
indicated significant improvements in skills of<br />
perspective taking and knowledge of intercultural<br />
issues post the intervention providing support for<br />
the role of dialogue in learning.<br />
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