The global dimension in action - Development Education Project

The purpose of this guide
This guide will help you as teachers
reflect on the global dimension in
your curriculum. It provides a clear
definition of the global dimension
and suggests ways in which this
dimension can be built into your
curriculum.
There are some practical activities to
help you stimulate a conversation
about the global dimension in your
school and decide on ways forward.
The activities focus on three key
questions.
What are you trying
1 to achieve?
How will you organise
learning?
2 How well are you
achieving your aims?
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Case studies show how different
schools have answered these three
questions. They also offer examples
of the global dimension in action,
and should help you make
decisions about how you would
like to develop it in your school.
This guide ends with a brief
overview of the organisations and
agencies that can support your
global dimension work.
This guide should be used in conjunction
with the following publications:
Developing the global dimension in
the school curriculum shows how the
global dimension can be integrated
into both the curriculum and the wider
life of schools. It provides a clear
definition of ‘global dimension’, which
incorporates the concepts of global
citizenship, conflict resolution, diversity,
human rights, interdependence, social
justice, sustainable development and
values and perceptions. It puts the
curriculum within a broader, global
context, showing how all subjects can
incorporate the global dimension.
This publication can be
downloaded as a pdf file by using
the search function at
www.dea.org.uk.
Putting the world into world-class
education provides an international
strategy for education, skills and
children’s services. It identifies three
interrelated key goals for a worldclass
education, which can be
summarised as:
� equipping children and adults for
a global society and economy
� working with other nations and
regions for their benefit and ours
� maintaining an education system
that can further our global
economic objectives.
This publication can be
downloaded as a pdf file from
www.globalgateway.org.uk/PDF/
International-Strategy.pdf.
Used together, these two publications can help schools create a curriculum that is
influenced by international thinking and action. The global dimension in action: A
curriculum planning guide for schools illustrates how schools have used these
other two publications to plan the global dimension in their curriculum and
evaluate the impact of the work on their learners.
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