Teaching Toolkit: Asian Heritage Month

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Educators, parents and children

Ottawa Public Library – Bibliothèque publique d’Ottawa

2021

“It is designed to help you educators and parents teach the kids in your life about the subject. Explore on-theme teaching tools, podcasts, cultures, interviews, events and even some booklists! It’s important to remember that Asian culture is vast and very diverse, and those that were not mentioned in this toolkit are still important and cherished.”

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This resource helps support sustainable development in various ways and address the following SDG targets: 4.1 (quality primary education), 4.2 (quality early childhood education), 4.7 (education for sustainable development), 10.2 (empowerment and inclusion of all), 11.4 (awareness-raising for Asian heritage), 16.10 (ensure public access to information), and 16.B (promote non-discriminatory policies for sustainable development).

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SDG 4.1: Free Primary and Secondary Education
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Number of programmes drawing on collections that support children at risk of exclusion or otherwise not completing primary and secondary education.
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SDG 4.2: Equal Access to Quality Pre-Primary Education
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Number of programmes drawing on collections that support early childhood development.
Number of programmes drawing on collections that aim to prepare children for primary education.
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SDG 4.7: Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Numbers of people in each type of programme drawing on collections from different demographic groups.
Increases in numbers of people in each type of programme from different demographic groups.
Proportion of people involved in such programmes in relation to overall audience size.
Evidence that learners have acquired knowledge and skills to promote sustainable development.
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SDG 10.2: Promote Universal Social Economic and Political Inclusion
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Collections development to ensure that collections effectively meet the needs of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.
Number and proportion of educational and participatory programmes that promote participation irrespective of social or other status.
Numbers and proportions of people making use of collections in relation to the demographic of the local population.
Numbers and proportions of people involved in focused programmes aimed at promoting social, economic and political inclusion.
Numbers and proportions of people from different demographic groups involved in decision-making processes relating to collections and collections-based institutions.
Number and types of partnerships that build relationships with marginalized groups, individuals and communities.
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SDG 11.4: Protect the Worlds Cultural and Natural Heritage
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Total expenditure (public and private) per capita spent on the preservation, protection and conservation of all cultural and natural heritage, by type of heritage.
Plans, policies and procedures in place for the safe use of collections for a variety of purposes, protecting and safeguarding both collections and those who use them.
Plans, policies and procedures in place for the identification, safeguarding and protection of cultural and natural heritage at risk.
Collecting programmes in place to protect, safeguard and make use of cultural and natural heritage, addressing the needs of communities and stakeholders, and ensuring that collections can be an effective resource for sustainable development.
Number and diversity of educational, awareness-raising, research programmes, and partnerships that aim to strengthen protection of cultural and natural heritage.
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SDG 16.10: Ensure Public Access to Information and Protect Fundamental Freedoms
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Adopt and implement constitutional, statutory and/or policy guarantees for public access to information.
Plans in place, and plans implemented to enhance public access to information relating to collections.
Plans in place, and plans implemented to support fundamental freedoms, in line with human rights, national and international agreements and legislation.
Plans and procedures in place for public access to information relating to the operation and management of collections-based institutions.
Complaint mechanism in place for public to use where public access to information and fundamental freedoms not supported or fulfilled.
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SDG 16.B: Promote and Enforce Non-Discriminatory Laws and Policies
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Proportion of population [audience/users/non-users] reporting having personally felt discriminated against or harassed in the previous 12 months on the basis of a ground of discrimination prohibited under international human rights law.
Number and proportion of policies that incorporate sustainable development considerations, in the full sense of recognizing all three of social, economic and environmental considerations.
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