Parent Sector : Education Sector (ED)
Duty Station: Paris
Classification of duty station: [[filter12]]
Standard Duration of Assignement : [[filter13]]
Job Family: Education
Type of contract : Non Staff
Duration of contract : From 7 to 11 months
Recruitment open to : External candidates
Application Deadline (Midnight Paris Time) : 3 March 2025
UNESCO Core Values: Commitment to the Organization, Integrity, Respect for Diversity, Professionalism
IMPORTANT: APPLICATION PROCEDURES
In place of the Employment History Form, please upload required documents. The whole package needs to be uploaded as a single PDF document (CV, Technical and financial proposal):
The position will be carried out remotely. The expected start date of the contract is 17 March 2025.
Please submit your supporting documents in English.
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UNESCO is inviting written proposals from Individuals for the work assignment described hereunder.
Launched in 1964, the General History of Africa (GHA) is an emblematic initiative that responds to the challenge of revisiting Africa’s history, freeing it from racial prejudices ensuing from slave trade and colonization, and promoting genuine and owned African perspectives.
UNESCO completed the publication of eight volumes of the GHA in 1999, and in 2009, the Organization responded to the African Union (AU) Member States’ request to support countries integrate the GHA into formal, non-formal and informal education and to produce new knowledge on African history more focused on affirming African identity and more closely aligned with challenges and issues faced by Africa and its diaspora.
To this end, UNESCO started developing GHA-based pedagogical materials for primary and secondary levels (10 - 19 years old). This process was supported by experts, designated focal points from African Ministries of Education, and guided by an International Scientific Committee composed of historians, curriculum developers, linguists, and sociologists from all over the continent.
More recently, UNESCO Member States adopted the UNESCO Operational Strategy for Priority Africa (2022-2029) that includes a specific Flagship Programme entitled “The General History of Africa (GHA) as a catalyst for achieving Agenda 2063 and the 2030 Agenda”. This undertaking responds to the renewed commitment of African Member States and their call for UNESCO to step up its efforts in support of countries with regard to further mainstreaming the GHA into their national curricula.
Against this backdrop, UNESCO has committed to revise the existing GHA pedagogical materials and develop and disseminate an updated and expanded set of tools to support education policymakers, curriculum developers and specialists, pedagogical advisers and teacher trainers, who wish to strengthen the teaching and learning of African history, mainstreaming the vision and content of the GHA project into all dimensions of their education systems.
This set of tools together comprise UNESCO’s Resource Pack for Mainstreaming the General History of Africa (GHA) into Education Systems whose aim is to advance the goal of mainstreaming the GHA into education systems in Africa and beyond the continent. The Resource Pack is intended to serve as a source of guidance and inspiration to education stakeholders as it showcases sample topics, learning outcomes, and examples of learning and assessment activities on African history. It identifies relevant entry points for mainstreaming GHA-related contents across and beyond the curriculum.
The GHA Education Resource Pack