'A' Level Opportunities for Global Understanding

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Areas Of Learning: All

see resources on OSDE www.osdemethodology.org.uk

Key Elements: Economic Awareness
Areas Of Learning: Environment & Society

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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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

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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published by Trocaire

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Areas Of Learning: Environment & Society

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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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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Education for sustainable development for Year 9 by CCEA

Key Elements: Education of sustainable development
Areas Of Learning: All

Who am I, what defines who I am, what is my ‘culture’?

Key Elements: Personal Understanding
Areas Of Learning: Environment & Society

Published by the CGE 2001. 
Price £20

An exciting and challenging activity led resource. It provides students with geographical knowledge and opportunities to respond and contribute positively to their dynamic world through the study of the following topics: inequality, sustainable development, resources, trade, child labour, debt, aid, women at work, refugees and asylum seekers.

Available from CGE catalogue

Key Elements: Citizenship,Cultural Understanding,Economic Awareness,Education of sustainable development,Ethical Awareness,Mutual Understanding
Areas Of Learning: English, Environment & Society, Maths, Science & Technology

Failed States

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Free to download from http://www.foe.co.uk/learning/educators/resource/index.html

Key Elements: Education of sustainable development
Areas Of Learning: Environment & Society

Excellent handbook for KS3 History teachers, Download for free.

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Areas Of Learning: Environment & Society

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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Globalisation, Enterprise and Knowledge: Education, Training and Development in Africa

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Handbook of Citizenship Studies

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Handbook of Historical Sociology (Sage Masters in Modern Social Thought)

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Promoting empathetic understanding.
Also possible use of Migration resource from Ulster American Folk museum 

Website 

Key Elements: Mutual Understanding
Areas Of Learning: Environment & Society

Students interview different communties and compare on how they want to be represented and how they are represented. Teacher text: Learning to Divide the World, education at empire’s end’ Willinsky.

Key Elements: Cultural Understanding
Areas Of Learning: Environment & Society

Learning to Divide the World

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LOOKING BEYOND THE BROCHURE:
1999, CONCERN £16.75

Notes, booklet and video. Looking at the alternative experiences of being a tourist, looking at the perspectives of a local person in a tourist destination, could be used in linking with Geography and Citizenship.

Modern Languages 

Analysing the global tourist industry

An awareness of the ‘imperial
Gaze’.

See also Looking Beyond the Brochure resource on Tourism.

(see DEA guidance for MFL) DEA Guidance
For Modern Foreign Languages: Download for free at:
http://www.dea.org.uk/uploads/4453d22a64a
184b4f76a113996448fcf/gpnc_mfl_guidance.pdf

Key Elements: Economic Awareness,Media Awareness
Areas Of Learning: Modern Languages, Environment & Society

To compare with how refugees are regarded in mainstream media today. See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/jun/08/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices

Key Elements: Media Awareness
Areas Of Learning: Environment & Society

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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Published: 2005
Price: £13

Looking behind the headlines of global disasters such as earthquakes, floods and hurricanes.

Available from CGE catalogue

Key Elements: Citizenship,Media Awareness
Areas Of Learning: The Arts, English, Environment & Society, Science & Technology

Experiences of Childhood resource by Development Media Workshop (sent free to school: Lives of Street children in Kenya and Nepal.

Key Elements: Mutual Understanding
Areas Of Learning: Environment & Society

Exciting approaches exploring globalization and how it affects people around the world. Possible links with English and Citizenship.

2007, £14

Key Elements: Citizenship
Areas Of Learning: Environment & Society

Published by Anti Slavery International
Pack includes book and video
Price: £15.00
Reprint Year: 2005

A pack which looks at the history of slavery (from West Africa to the Caribbean) and child labour (in the U.K.) and draws parallels with the present day situation for child workers world-wide. The materials are presented from a human rights perspective. The first part examines the issue of historical slave trade until its abolition in Britiain in 1807. The second explores the history of child labour in the U.K. and considers what child labour means today in countries such as Columbia, Egypt and India. Could be linked with literature or texts that are related to slavery.
Book, Teacher's Pack, VHS (video)

Themes:
Black history, Child labour, Colonialism, Conflict, Development, Employment, Environment, Equality, Global citizenship, Human rights, Slavery
1998

Available from CGE catalogue

Key Elements: Citizenship
Areas Of Learning: English, Environment & Society

Trocaire resource

http://trocaire.org/education/educationresources.php 

Key Elements: All
Areas Of Learning: English, Environment & Society

Series of activities which require young people to use photographs, case studies and information presented in various formats, to develop a greater understanding of the importance of peace to young people’s development. Case studies are set in Cambodia, Burundi, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Published: 2005
Price £5

Available from CGE catalogue

Key Elements: Citizenship,Moral Character
Areas Of Learning: English, Environment & Society, RE