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What is global education?

Global education teaches students the values, skills, attitudes and knowledge which will enable them to be aware and empowered global citizens of the future, able to work for a peaceful, just and sustainable world for all.

"Global Education is a process that helps students participate effectively in the development of a better world for all" Calder and Smith 1991.

Global Education has six broad themes: globalization and interdependence, identity and cultural diversity, dimensions of change, social justice and human rights, peace building and conflict and sustainable futures.

Finding out more about Global Education

Try these websites.

Oxfam: What is Global Citizenship?
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/teachers/glociti/index.htm

Global Education Centre, South Australia
www.global-education.asn.au

Global Learning Centre, Queensland
www.uq.net.au/~zzglcent

AusAID Global Education Website
http://globaleducation.edna.edu.au/

Oaktree Foundation
This is an entirely youth run organisation with a focus on educating high school students about global issues.
http://theoaktree.org

Borrow teacher references from OWC library about Global Education.

• 80:20 Development in and Unequal World, (2002) edited by Colm Regan
• Fountain, S. (1995) Education for Development: A Teachers Source Book for Global Learning, Hodder and Stroughton.
• Curriculum Corporation Publications
  

Global Perspectives: a statement on global education for Australian schools,

Think Global - Global perspectives in the lower primary classroom by Rebecca Reid- Nguyen

Look Global - Global perspectives in the upper primary classroom by Roslyn Guy

Go Global - Global perspectives in the secondary classroom by Rosalie Triolo

• What is Development? produced by the Teachers in Development Education Development Education Centre.

This is a pack to support teachers to enable students to question the different dimensions of development, to explore different perspectives relate it to experiences of development processes in their own locality and to the influences of interdependence.