'A' Level Opportunities for Global Understanding

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By making a link between traditional and modern pharmaceutical drugs. Students could be shown how modern medicines are often developed from traditional herbal remedies using examples such as Ventolin, which is widely used by asthma sufferers and which started as a herbal preparation derived from the Chinese herb mahuang.History of science: scientists from around the world.

Key Elements: Cultural Understanding
Areas Of Learning: Science & Technology

Assembly and resources. See www.wiseuptorenewables.com  

Key Elements: Education of sustainable development
Areas Of Learning: The Arts, English, Maths, RE, Science & Technology, The World Around Us

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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Published: 2002
Price: £5

Excellent resource exploring diversity and equality

Key Elements: Citizenship,Cultural Understanding,Ethical Awareness,Mutual Understanding,Personal Understanding
Areas Of Learning: English, Science & Technology, The World Around Us

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
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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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Clean Water a Right For ALL
http://www.scotdec.org.uk/resources/search/index.html

Key Elements: Ethical Awareness
Areas Of Learning: Science & Technology

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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Published by Trocaire

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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

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Using DVDs of children in Kenya and Nepal, free resources sent to all schools in N.I. DMW 

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Areas Of Learning: Science & Technology

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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See:
http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/resources/default.aspx

Key Elements: Citizenship,Ethical Awareness
Areas Of Learning: Maths, Science & Technology

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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Learning to Divide the World

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Key Elements: Spiritual Awareness
Areas Of Learning: Science & Technology

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

www.scienceacross.org enables students aged 8-17 years to exchange information, opinions and ideas on a variety of science topics with young people on every continent , bringing science to life as a global concern and responsibility.Topics include Acid Rain, Biodiversity, Chemistry, Disappearing Wetlands, Domestic Waste, Drinking water, Dwellings, Eating and Drinking, Global Warming, Keeping Healthy, Plants, Renewable Energy, Raod Safety, Genetics and Tropical Forests.

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And role of science in dispelling it. (Genetics and variation.)

See Teacher text: Learning to divide the world, education at empire's end by John Willinsky. 

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Areas Of Learning: Science & Technology

http://www.wateraid.org/splash_out/

Key Elements: Economic Awareness
Areas Of Learning: Science & Technology