educating for equity: global learning & social justice katie carr & paul jenkins cdec
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Educating for Equity: global learning &
social justice
Katie Carr & Paul JenkinsCDEC
Poverty hits twice as many British households as 30 years ago
• 33% of households endure below-par living standards, compared with 14% in early ‘80s
• Defined as going without three or more ‘basic necessities of life’ (such as being able to adequately feed and clothe themselves and their children, and to heat and insure their homes)
• One in three people cannot afford to heat their homes properly
• 4 million adults and children are not able to eat healthily.
http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html
What does one million dollars look like?
http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html
What does one trillion dollars look like?
About CDECOur vision is for young people to have the skills and confidence to be able to face the
challenges of today, to develop understanding and respect other people and places, and to make informed choices that have a positive
impact on society and the world around them.
Global CitizenshipSchool Linking, with partners local and globalOutdoor and environmental learningDiversity and multiculturalismSustainable DevelopmentFairtradePupil Voice and taking action
Funded projectsCPD / training
Classroom resourcesCreative Classrooms
The World from our DoorstepProject Aim – 3 year EU funded project to help teachers and children to address global challenges by raising their awareness, and ensuring they can take action to support sustainable ways of living
Partners - CDEC in Cumbria, global education organisations in Poland, Cyprus and Bulgaria
Project themes – the concept of interconnectedness (local-global links), sustainability, and fairness (through Fairtrade)
Participants – infant teachers, pre-school practitioners, teaching assistants and other adult helpers from UK, Poland, Cyprus and Bulgaria
Approaches – enabling critical thinking (P4C, Sustained Shared Thinking), stories and artefacts, games, links with local and international food producers and craftspeople
Resources - 3 big story books: Meet Zogg, Thea Discovers Chocolate & Lily’s Picnic, local producer animations commissioned and produced in Cumbria
Practitioner Handbook = introductory activities and 30 lesson plans on 3 themes, devised and trialled across all partner countries
Agree Disagree
Poverty isn’t just about money, it’s about other things tooFairness means:
• Everyone getting the same• Everyone getting what they want• Everyone getting what they need
There is no real poverty in our country
Pupil Audit Activity (Concept Line)
I know about... I care about...
I am taking action... I am enabling others to take action
• Aid quote
Right now, for every $1 that is given in foreign aid to the global south, around $18 is taken out by other means, most notably rigged trade deals that benefit the most powerful countries and corporations, debt repayment on debts already paid off many times over, and massive tax evasion and other forms of corruption, committed by political and business elites north and south, and facilitated by a large and growing web of tax havens. So in the grand scheme of things, who’s actually developing who?
from http://www.fastcoexist.com
“Neither global education nor church school ethos can be an ‘added extra’;
they both run through the whole curriculum and wider school life. There
is a very natural fit between global education and the Christian ethos of a
church school. The more aware you become of issues of global poverty and inequality, and of Christian perspectives
on these issues, the less the question seems to be: ‘how does global
education fit with church school ethos?’ but rather: ‘how can global education
NOT be deep at the heart of all we do in a church school?’”
From ‘Every Child of God Matters Everywhere’Diocese of Bradford and Ripon & Leeds
