Learning to live together: design, monitoring and evaluation of education for life skills, citizenship, peace and human rights

This guide focuses on strengthening the curriculum dimension known as education for learning to live together (LTLT), which incorporates areas of life skills, citizenship, peace and human rights. The living together and life skills dimension of curriculum appears in school timetables in different ways. Traditionally subjects like history, geography, literature and religious education touch on civic knowledge and personal ethics, while science or health cover some aspects of life skills. In this guide the authors argue for a holistic view of this dimension and for appropriate teaching learning processes.

The document offers suggestions for monitoring and evaluation processes to answer questions including:

• does our traditional schooling meet our current goals in the LTLT/life skills dimension?
  
• does our recent system-wide LTLT/life skills initiative achieve its goals? 

The authors also suggest the importance of building monitoring and evaluation of LTLT/life skills into:

• curriculum and textbook development programmes and centres
• teacher training systems
• national or project systems for monitoring and evaluation of schooling.

The document focuses on curriculum renewal in all societies, who all face challenges in responding positively to the rapid changes of the twenty-first century. It is also designed for use in difficult conditions, for example in post-conflict or other situations where resources and well-trained teachers are scarce; and in a variety of cultural settings.