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We work together Can you?
Resource includes teaching ideas to help develop cooperation and thinking about peace and conflict on a global scale. It links working together on a small scale to large scale conflicts around the world and explores ideas about different cultures and … Continue reading
Teaching about religions through art
Simple guidelines offer a respectful approach to religious diversity through art.
Civic Education: Refugees
The resource contains overall unit plans and objectives and practical lesson plans for teaching and learning about refugees. Topics are related to broader topics of civic education as justice, equality, tolerance, freedom, minority rights and the formation of community.
People of faith
Website offers resources of the world's main faiths and religions from the viewpoint of individuals from each faith and religion. Facts of the religions are featured by experiences of people of different faiths.
A Different Conversation
"A Different Conversation" documentary explores the experiences of college students on a trip to Jerusalem, evoking individual and collective narratives as to how religion is both relevant and alive today. Within the context of Jerusalem’s political tensions, the students explored … Continue reading
The European Wergeland Centre Share & Connect Database
The European Wergeland Centre (EWC) has just launched Share & Connect, a database for experts in the field of Education for Human Rights, Intercultural Understanding and Democratic Citizenship, including the dimension of religion to all of these. Share & Connect … Continue reading
Tolerance and Tension: Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa
A Pew Forum survey of respondents in 19 Sub-Saharan African countries on the role of religion and tolerance has resulted in this report. The report has a detailed and sometimes unexpected portrait. Besides offering background information, the report is a … Continue reading
The Sandwich Swap
This story is about two friends, Lily and Salma, who play together but have cultural differences. But does it mean that they can't be friends? They transcend these differences in their friendship. Based on Her Majesty Queen Rania's experience, the … Continue reading
Understanding Culture
The article explores issues around culture and teaching and describes how to think about educational settings and scenarios from the point of view of culture. It discusses the formation of cultural identity, and the concept of cultural responsibility.
Christianity and Islam in the Context of Contemporary Culture
Christianity and Islam in the Context of Contemporary Culture: Perspectives of Interfaith Dialogue from Russia and theMiddle East. This joint UNESCO-Beirut and UNESCO-Moscow publication presents results of a joint international research project to provide a systematic cross-cultural analysis of fundamental … Continue reading