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Before you start raising money...
Raising money can be a springboard to help young people become active global citizens in a range of ways. This guide has been produced by Oxfam, and sets out important questions to think about before raising money for charity
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Centre for Global Education- Resource catalogue
Centre for Global Education
This resource catalogue will be useful for teachers looking for classroom materials.
Please contact
Nora McQuaid
Co-ordinator
Global Dimension in Schools NI
9 University Street
Belfast
BT7 1FY
Tel: 02890 241879
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Chembakolli - Life and Change in an Indian Village
Publisher: Action Aid
Year: 2002
Content: 30 A4 colour photographs,
3 information booklets, map, poster
Price: £23.45
Chembakolli is a locality study exploring gender and community development issues in a rural village in India. It contains 30 A4 colour photographs,
maps and information cards which can be used for individual, pair, group and
whole class work.The activities support work on the study of a locality in Africa,
Asia, South or Central America at Key Stage 2.
Available from CGE catalogue
Curriculum Objectives: Citizenship,Cultural Understanding,Mutual Understanding
Areas Of Learning: Language & Literacy, PE, Personal Development & Mutual Understanding, The World Around Us
Climate change - local & global
Publisher: Hampsire DEC/ UNICEF
Year: 2005
Price: £11.00
This resource is ideal for addressing the issues of climate change with students at KS2.
Curriculum Objectives: Citizenship,Education of sustainable development,Ethical Awareness,Spiritual Awareness
Areas Of Learning: Mathematics & Numeracy, Personal Development & Mutual Understanding, RE, The World Around Us
Climate Change Photopack
This photopack is targetted at Key Stage 3 RE and Geography. It explores the issue of climate change and in particular how it affects the people CAFOD is working with in the poorest countries of the world.
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CND Peace Education Pack
CND
This pack includes six activities for use in secondary schools, post-16 and youth settings to explore peace and nuclear issues.
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Come and Play with us!
Publisher: Child's Play / Oxfam
Year: 2002
Price: £3.99
Learn about people from around the world and how all over the world people have the same hopes and dreams even if each life is very unique.This book shows the different games people play.
Available from CGE catalogue
Curriculum Objectives: Citizenship,Cultural Understanding
Areas Of Learning: Language & Literacy, PE, Personal Development & Mutual Understanding, The World Around Us
Come and Ride with us!
Publisher: Child's Play / Oxfam
Year: 1995
Price: £3.99
Similar to Come and Play with Us! Except this book shows the different forms of transport people use around the world.
Available from CGE catalogue
Curriculum Objectives: Citizenship,Cultural Understanding
Areas Of Learning: Personal Development & Mutual Understanding, The World Around Us
Critical Literacy in Global Citizenship Education
This resource is a professional development tool for educators who are interested in creating learning spaces where participants can engage critically with a range of global issues and perspectives.
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DEA Guidance on Global Perspectives at KS1 and 2
An excellent handbook of ideas for primary teachers. Download free
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First Steps to Rights
Publisher: Hampsire DEC/ UNICEF
Year: 2003
Content: Book, 15 A3 colour photographs
Price: £15.00
This book with accompanying A3 colour photographs has the following aims:
(1) introduce young children to the basic rights of all children;
(2) help practicioners to bring a global perspective to exploring those rights
Available from CGE catalogue.
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Areas Of Learning: Language & Literacy, Personal Development & Mutual Understanding, The World Around Us
Food & farming - local & global
Publisher: TIDE
Year: 2004
Price: £8.75
This resource explores how the food we eat is related to other people in our own country and in countries all over the world.
Curriculum Objectives: Citizenship,Cultural Understanding,Economic Awareness,Education of sustainable development,Employability,Ethical Awareness,Moral Character,Mutual Understanding,Personal Understanding,Spiritual Awareness
Areas Of Learning: Mathematics & Numeracy, Mondern Language, Personal Development & Mutual Understanding, The World Around Us
Games we Play
Publisher: DEP
Year: 2004
Content: 44pp
Price: £16
Download: http://www.dep.org.uk/games/pack.php
This new pack consists of teacher's notes, 11 minute video and ten gamescards. It has a unique contribution to make to teaching in primary schools, with its use of play and games to develop understanding of far away places and children's own and other cultures.
Curriculum Objectives: Citizenship,Cultural Understanding,Media Awareness,Mutual Understanding,Personal Understanding
Areas Of Learning: Personal Development & Mutual Understanding, The World Around Us
Get Global!: Key Stages 3 & 4: A Skills Based Approach to Active Global Citizenship (Hardcover)
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Getting Started with Global Citizenship
This Oxfam publication is for Beginner and Newly Qualified teachers and also the tutors and school-based mentors who support them. It has been developed in close collaboration with new entrants to the profession who identified the need for more guidance on how to foster global learning.
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Global Citizenship – The Handbook For Primary Teaching
Publisher: Oxfam
Year: 2002
Content: 188pp
Price: £25.00
This handbook explains global Citizenship and develops it's principles into clear, practical pointers for use in schools. It also contains worksheets on global citizenship for use in the primary classroom.
Order from CGE catalogue.
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Areas Of Learning: Language & Literacy, Personal Development & Mutual Understanding, The World Around Us
Global Express: Fair Trade
Publisher: DEP
Year: 2004
Content: Book
Price: £5
Eight pages of photocopiable activities include raising awareness of fair and unfair trade.
Available from CGE catalogue
Curriculum Objectives: Citizenship,Economic Awareness,Education of sustainable development,Ethical Awareness,Media Awareness,Moral Character,Mutual Understanding
Areas Of Learning: Mathematics & Numeracy, Personal Development & Mutual Understanding, RE, The World Around Us
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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Homes and Families in Peru
Publisher:Trocaire
Year: 2007
Price: FREE
Explore issues of different families in Peru through a set of 12 photos, stories and classroom activities.
Curriculum Objectives: Citizenship,Cultural Understanding,Economic Awareness,Education of sustainable development,Ethical Awareness,Media Awareness,Moral Character,Mutual Understanding,Personal Understanding
Areas Of Learning: Language & Literacy, Personal Development & Mutual Understanding, The World Around Us
Human Rights in China
The 2008 Beijing Olympics present an opportunity for students to explore issues of human rights in China, and Amnesty International has produced a series of lesson plans and other resources to help teachers with this.
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If the World were a Village
Publisher: A&C Black
Year: 2006
Price: £5.94
An incredibly useful resource that clearly and simply highlights the inequalities in the world and helps to raise awareness of how the majority of the world live, and who are the majority regarding language, religion and economic advantage.
Order from CGE catalogue.
Curriculum Objectives: Citizenship,Cultural Understanding,Economic Awareness,Education of sustainable development,Ethical Awareness,Media Awareness,Mutual Understanding,Personal Understanding,Spiritual Awareness
Areas Of Learning: Mathematics & Numeracy, Personal Development & Mutual Understanding, The World Around Us
Learning Global Lessons
Publisher: Action Aid
Year: 2000
Price: £24.00
Learning Global Lessons provides resources for 50 non-fiction literacy hours. Divided into five units, each unit focuses on a specific area of the world, drawing on Action Aid's internationally recognised approach to literacy.Twenty A4 colour photographs illustrating life in the Mubende District in Uganda and Kukri Mukri in Bangladesh are also provided.
Curriculum Objectives: Citizenship,Cultural Understanding,Mutual Understanding
Areas Of Learning: Language & Literacy, Personal Development & Mutual Understanding, The World Around Us
Lenten Resources
Each year Trócaire produces Lenten Resources on the theme of its Lenten Campaign. Past Resources are available to download from the Trócaire website in the Education Section. www.trocaire.ie/education. Resources are produced for Pre-School, Primary (Junior&Senior), and Post- Primary (CSPE & Religious Education Resources)
Past Themes Include:
2008: Climate Change
2007 - Gender Equality
2006 - Child Labour
2005 - Ethiopia
2004 - Rwanda Genocide
2003 - Guatemala
Curriculum Objectives: Citizenship,Cultural Understanding,Economic Awareness,Education of sustainable development,Ethical Awareness,Media Awareness,Moral Character,Mutual Understanding,Personal Understanding
Areas Of Learning: English, Personal Development & Mutual Understanding, The World Around Us
Lessons for the Future: The Missing Dimension in Education (Paperback)
Lessons for the Future: The Missing Dimension in Education
Product Description
In Lessons for the Future, Davis Hicks provides an insight into, and an argument for, futures education. He discusses the latest innovative teaching and research in the field and looks at young people's attitudes to the future. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Maji early years Photo Pack
Published by Trocaire
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Areas Of Learning: The Arts, Language & Literacy, Mathematics & Numeracy, PE, Personal Development & Mutual Understanding, RE, The World Around Us
Making a Difference: Global Citizenship in Initial Teacher Training (Paperback)
Making a Difference: Global Citizenship in Initial Teacher Training
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Me, You, Everyone
rights and responsibilities is the third in the series of Lift Off materials, which have been developed for use in the primary school classroom to promote understanding and respect for human rights.
It has been written for 9 - 11 year old children by a team of experienced and practising teachers from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Me, You, Everyone enables children in 5th and 6th class (Republic of Ireland) and P4 and P5 (Northern Ireland) to learn about human rights and to explore the principles underpinning these rights. This resource complements the primary curriculum on both sides of the border and in particular helps meet the aims of SPHE (in the Republic of Ireland) and PDMU (in Northern Ireland).Download from: http://www.liftoffschools.com/Teachers/Downloads.aspx
Amnesty also has a free ezine that teachers can sign up to.
The link for that is
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10672
Curriculum Objectives: Citizenship,Cultural Understanding,Ethical Awareness,Mutual Understanding,Personal Understanding
Areas Of Learning: Language & Literacy, Personal Development & Mutual Understanding, RE, The World Around Us
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Paperback)
Media Control:
Book Description
Chomsky's classic back-pocket primer on US government propaganda and media bias is the Open Media Pamphlet Series's best-selling title of all time, with more than 100,000 copies in print. Arguably more important now than ever, this newly expanded edition furthers Chomsky's analysis with his January 2002 comments regarding media coverage of terrorism and US foreign policy in the post-September 11 world.
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Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback)
Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient
Product Description
ORIENTALISM is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas to be published since the end of the European empires. For generations now it has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire and with each passing year its influencebecomes if anything even greater. To mark its 25th anniversary, ORIENTALISM rightfully takes its place as a Pengun Modern Classic.
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