Getting started with Global Citizenship

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Getting started with Global Citizenship

• Lynn Baxendale
• West of Scotland Development Education Centre

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We will

• Consider what we mean by a global citizen
• Examine the key elements of Education for Global
  Citizenship
• Look at a framework for cross curricular global
  learning
• Explore global citizenship within the context of
  a primary topic
• Learn where we can get support for GC

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The IDEAS Network

• Network of 40 organisations in Scotland
• Actively support and promote global citizenship
  and sustainable development education as an
  integral part of CfE.

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Development Education Centres

• WOSDEC
• Glasgow
• Scotdec
• Edinburgh
• One World Centre Dundee
• Highland One World Centre Dingwall
• Montgomery DEC
• Aberdeen

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What do we do?

• Support educators to embed global citizenship
• into the curriculum and ethos of Scottish
• schools.
• Provide access to classroom and professional
  development resources
• Offer a range of CPD opportunities
• Develop support materials
• Work with educators on a variety of projects

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Whats it all About

• Global Citizenship is

• Global Citizenship isnt

• Asking questions, developing critical thinking
• Equipping young people with skills, values and
  knowledge to participate
• Acknowledging complexity of issues
• Revealing the global as part of the local
• Understanding how we relate to environment and
  other humans

• Too difficult for small children
• Mostly about other places and people
• Telling people what to do and think
• Providing simple answers to complex problems
• An extra subject to cram into a crowded
  curriculum
• Not raising money for charity

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A global citizen

• Is aware of the wider world and has a sense of
  their own role as a world citizen
• Respects and values diversity
• Has an understanding of how the world works
• Is outraged by social injustice
• Participates in the community at a range of
  levels local to global
• Is willing to act to make the world more
  equitable and sustainable
• Takes responsibility for their actions

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Global Citizenship and Curriculum for Excellence

• E4GC Themes

• CfE Themes

• Social justice equity
• Diversity
• Globalisation interdependence
• Sustainable development
• Peace and conflict

• Globalisation
• Interdependence
• Rights and responsibilities
• Inequality
• Poverty
• Migration
• Asylum
• Identity
• Diversity
• Trade
• Environmental issues

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Global Citizenship and Curriculum for Excellence

• E4GC Skills

• CfE skills

• Critical thinking
• Ability to argue effectively
• Ability to challenge injustice and inequalities
• Co-operation and conflict resolution

• critical thinking
• investigating
• exploring
• enquiring
• discussing
• arguing
• analysing
• reasoning
• judging
• evaluating

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Values

• Sense of self esteem and identity
• Empathy
• Commitment to social justice and equity
• Value respect for diversity
• Concern for the environment and commitment to
  sustainable development
• Belief that people can make a difference

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A framework for global learning
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Asking questions

• Effective participative learning needs the
  ability to ask questions.
• Questions generated by the learner helps them
  feel ownership.
• Critical thinking is central to the purposes of
  CfE
• To make society more just and sustainable we need
  young people to engage critically.

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Making connections

• Themes common to childrens lives throughout the
  world water, food, homes, transport, sport,
  school, waste, conflict .
• Our global connectedness links through
  technology, trade, migration etc
• Connections between issues looking at many
  local issue has a link to a global one.

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Exploring values and viewpoints

• Aware that our own knowledge often consists of
  just one perspective
• Self awareness our own values and assumptions
• Respect for diversity
• Communication skills
• Discussion doesnt have to come to consensus
• Small group discussion helps those less
  articulate
• Think about your own role

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Where to start?

• School and classroom resources and learning
  materials
• Putting a global dimension into any topic/
  subject area
• Participatory learning
• School assemblies
• Involving community

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Some key resources

• Global CitizenshipA handbook for Primary
  Teachers (Oxfam)
• Growing Up Global (RISC)
• First Steps to Rights (UNICEF)
• Partners in Rights (SCF)
• Fat Felts and Sugar Paper ( TIDE)
• Your World, My World ( Oxfam)
• Go Bananas (Oxfam)
• Challenge of Globalisation(Oxfam)
• Water Issues local and global (TIDE)
• Climate Change local and global (TIDE)

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• WOSDEC
• 759B Argyle Street
• Glasgow
• Elynn.wosdec_at_btconnect.com