Development Education Centre

www.scotdec.org.uk

Kate Allen

Kate@scotdec.org.uk

Conforti, Coatbridge One World Centre, Dundee

Highland One World, Inverness Scotdec, Edinburgh

Montgomery DEC, Aberdeen Wosdec, Glasgow

Global Citizenship?

•Where’s this place?• There are lots of old things.

• They have a nice climate.

• There are many shops.

• It has a large population.

• The people speak a beautiful language.

• Their policemen wear red and black.

• They live in flats.

• There are many factories.

• There are lots of churches and hospitals.

•There are big forests.

•They have large roads.

•They have beautiful coins.

•They have very tall mountains.

•Views of Britain from Kenyan girls and boys, Greek girls and boys.

•They eat frogs and snakes.

•There are no pickpockets.

•There are no black people.

•Guns come from there.

•From Speaking for Ourselves, Listening to Others, Leeds Development Education Centre

Our role as educators?

What’s in your rucksack?

Gender -- Age -- Where you live? -- Family

structure -- Skills --

Holidays -- Friends -- Relatives --

Languages -- Entertainment --

Siblings -- Clothes -- Ethnicity -- Faith --

Food -- Hobbies -- Pets

A framework for Global Citizenship:

Asking questions

Making local to global

connections

Examining viewpoints and values

Responding as active citizens

Assessing learning

Participatory learning

Global Learning ProgrammeWe offer 3-part CPDs

• Creative Approaches to Global Citizenship

• Film + Global Citizenship

• Rights + Global Citizenship

• Learning for Sustainability

• Political Literacy

• Fairtrade

Resourceswww.scotdec.org.uk

www.signpostsglobalcitizenship.org

www.Oxfam.org.uk/education

www.globalgoals.org

In September 2015 World Leaders committed to the Global Goals for Sustainable Development

17 goals to achieve 3 extraordinary things in the next 15 years

1. End extreme poverty

2. Fight inequality and injustice

3. Combat climate change

If every school in the world teaches children about these goals, we will help them become the generation that changed the world

ResourcesTake One Action

http://www.takeoneaction.org.uk/

Into Film (He Named Me Malala)

https://www.intofilm.org/

Kinneard Primary School

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDLVhMPSSTU

Why?

Social media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufeliruQBDg

Why?