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Education is vital to achieving acceptance and respect for all people regardless of colour, gender, or national, ethnic or religious identity, being especially important to reach out to children and young people during their formative years through their formal education. Therefore, another project was launched in 2012: the UNESCO-USA-Brazil project "Teaching Respect for All" that aims to design a curricular framework to fight racism and promote tolerance, which countries can adapt to their respective contexts and needs.
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(a) Why is education important?
(b) Name the project launched in 2012. What was its objective?
(c) Mention any three functions of UNESCO in the field of education.
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(a) Education is important because it helps in achieving acceptance and respect for all people, irrespective of their colour, gender, or national, ethnic, or religious identity. It plays a key role in reaching out to children and young people during their formative years, ensuring that they understand and embrace values of tolerance, respect, and inclusivity. Education promotes a more peaceful and harmonious society by fostering these values.
(b) The project launched in 2012 is the UNESCO-USA-Brazil project "Teaching Respect for All". It aims to design a curricular framework to fight racism and promote tolerance, which countries can adapt to their respective contexts and needs.
(c) Three functions of UNESCO in the field of education are:
- It makes arrangements to expand and guide education in different countries of the world to remove illiteracy.
- It opens schools and helps to train teachers, planners and administrators.
- It opens libraries and makes arrangements for exhibitions.
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