Ronnie Smith, general secretary of the EIS teaching union, said the publication of the guidelines represented "an important milestone" in the process of implementing the curriculum.
The workshop will provide an opportunity to assess the key achievements, lessons learned and challenges from the process of developing comprehensive life skills curriculum on Sexuality, HIV Educative Prevention (LSHEP Curricular) in 2012 and to produce recommendations for implementing the LSHEP Curriculaumincluding setting up a monitoring and evaluation framework.
He also highlighted the importance of having an enabling ESD curriculum framework and encouraging teachers to be the facilitators of the learning process.
At present, the most up to date point at which the current conflict might be addressed in the curriculum would be likely to be the Arab-Israeli conflict and subsequent peace process in the 1960s and 1970s.