Product Description
This book examines some of the major challenges faced by African education by placing them in two important contexts. First, it explores how new economic dynamics, linked to globalisation, impact upon educational priorities and possibilities. Second, it stresses the need to locate educational policies and practices alongside approaches in other sectors. This leads to an analysis of the intersections between education, training and enterprise development. Through detailed examinations of recent policies and practices in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa, the book shows how different national approaches emerge in spite of apparent convergences in donor agency policy and international policy discourses. Aimed at policy makers and practitioners as well as academics, the book outlines a series of theoretical, policy and practical challenges for the future of African education and its broader role in development.
'A' Level Opportunities for Global Understanding - by Topic (Paperback)
'A' Level Opportunities for Global Understanding
Key Elements: All
Areas Of Learning: All
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question (Paperback)
Blaming the Victims
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Since the 1948 war which drove them from their homeland, the Palestinian people have consistently been denied the most basic democratic rights. Blaming The Victims shows how the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic attempts to dismiss their claim to a home within the boundaries of historical Palestine and even to deny their very existence. Beginning with a thorough expose of the fraudulent assertions of Joan Peters concerning the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine prior to 1948, the book then turns to similar instances in Middle East research where the truth about the Palestinians has been systematically suppressed: from the bogus - though still widely believed - explanations of why so many Palestinians fled their homes in 1948, to today's distorted propaganda about PLO terrorism. The volume also includes sharp critiques of the wide consensus in the USA which supports Israel and its territorial ambitions while maintaining total silence about the competing reality of the Palestinians. Contributors include Norman G. Finkelstein, Peretz Kidron, Noam Chomsky, G. W. Bowerstock, Ibrahim Abu-Loghod, Rashid Khalidi, Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Muhammed Hallaj, and Elia Zureik.
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Areas Of Learning: All
Child Poverty
Experiences of Childhood, learning resource on poverty DVD's about childen in Kenya and Nepal, Development Media Workshop resource. Sent free to all schools in N.I.
Key Elements: Citizenship,Cultural Understanding
Areas Of Learning: All
Child slavery and the making of sports equipment.
Citizenship and the Challenge of Global Education (European Issues in Children's Identity & Citizens
Citizenship and the Challenge of Global Education
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Teachers have the challenge of teaching for equity, justice and solidarity in plural and fast-changing societies where their students are well aware of inequality and injustice. How much does government policy encourage understanding of global interdependence and skills for democratic participation? How can schools integrate issues of citizenship, human rights and multiculturalism and what support do they recieve? Drawing on case studies from England, Ireland, Denmark and the Netherlands, this text examines the institutional support provided in educating for global citizenship. It looks at the contradictions students and their teachers face when they compare what is learned in school with the messages from politicians and the media about refugees and asylum seekers, young poeple's rights, environmental issues and the impact of globalization.
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Areas Of Learning: All
Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World
Covering Islam
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A penetrating look at the way in which experts, policy-makers and the media have dealt with the crisis in Iran and the Middle East. With examples, Said demonstrates that the government-business establishment has produced a portrait of Islam and Muslims based on ignorance, inaccuracy and prejudice.
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Areas Of Learning: All
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
Culture and Imperialism
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Following his profoundly influential study, "Orientalism", Edward Said now examines western culture. From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to media coverage of the Gulf War, "Culture and Imperialism" is a broad, fierce and wonderfully readable account of the roots of imperialism in European culture.
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Areas Of Learning: All
Dodging Doomsday
Education for sustainable development for Year 9 by CCEA
Key Elements: Education of sustainable development
Areas Of Learning: All
Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (Paperback)
Failed States
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Games We Play
A book and video that explores games that children from different communities play. £16 available from http://www.dep.org.uk/
Key Elements: Mutual Understanding
Areas Of Learning: PE
Global Learning and ICT
A website created by an ICT teacher, Alex Savage, which contains a plethora of fantastic FREE ICT educational resources and websites regarding global issues. Many of the websites could be used in all learning areas to incorporate global issues using ICT.
See:
http://www.communicty.org/
http://communicty.wikispaces.com/Global
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Areas Of Learning: All
Globalisation, Enterprise and Knowledge: Education, Training and Development in Africa
Globalisation, Enterprise and Knowledge: Education, Training and Development in Africa
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Areas Of Learning: All
Handbook of Citizenship Studies (Hardcover)
Handbook of Citizenship Studies
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Areas Of Learning: All
Handbook of Historical Sociology (Sage Masters in Modern Social Thought)
Handbook of Historical Sociology (Sage Masters in Modern Social Thought)
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Areas Of Learning: All
Ideas for Global Dimension in PE
Explore campaigns such as Kick Racism out of Football or Show Racism the Red Card In PE pupils Kick and Drum, a project run by Music for change, raised intercultural awareness and respect by linking football with global music, dance and drama. Five artists from around the world worked in 10 different schools. This work culminated in an interactive performance by 300 young people at a football league game at Charlton Athletic’s ground in front of more than 20,000 spectators.
Key Elements: Citizenship
Areas Of Learning: PE
Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire's End (Paperback)
Learning to Divide the World
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Areas Of Learning: All
Open Spaces for Dialogue and Enquiry
Open Spaces for Dialogue and Enquiry ( OSDE) www.osdemethodology.org.uk
OSDE is a methodology for the introduction of global issues and perspectives into educational contexts. It can be used in schools and higher education.
OSDE can help learners to:-
- engage with complex local / global issues from different perspectives
- examine the origins and implications of their own and other people's assumptions
- to negotiate change, to transform relationships, to think independently and to make responsible and conscious choices about their own lives and how they affect the lives of others
- to live with and learn from difference and conflict and to prevent conflict from escalating to aggression and violence
establish ethical, responsible and caring relationships beyond their identity groups
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Areas Of Learning: All
Sports equipment and child labour
Trocaire: Gender Equality Campaign:
Trocaire resource on gender equalityhow the media portrays women in sport. http://trocaire.org/education/educationresources.php
Key Elements: Media Awareness
Areas Of Learning: PE