Global Education Unpacked

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What are you scared of? What do you hope for?

CSIRO: Our Future World More With Less Going, Going, Gone The Silk Highway Virtually Here Great Expectations

Diamond Ranking What skills, knowledge and values will be most important for a student from your school to live well in the future scenario described?

Development Education Association (2010) The impact of global learning on public attitudes and behaviours towards international development and sustainability. It’s pointless to act about environmental issues

Development Education Association (2010) The impact of global learning on public attitudes and behaviours towards international development and sustainability. I’m not interested in acting to improve society

What’s Global Education? “Enabling young people to participate in a better shared future for all is at the heart of global education. Global education promotes open-mindedness leading to new thinking about the world and a predisposition to take action for change. Students learn to take responsibility for their actions, respect and value diversity, and see themselves as global citizens who can contribute to a more peaceful, just and sustainable world ” Global Perspectives: A framework for global education in Australian Schools Commonwealth of Australia, 2008

Goal 2: All young Australians become successful learners, confident and creative individuals, and active and informed citizens

Active and informed citizens: are committed to national values of democracy, equity and justice, and participate in Australia’s civic life are able to relate to and communicate across cultures work for the common good, in particular sustaining and improving natural and social environments are responsible global and local citizens. act with moral and ethical integrity

AC: 3 Cross curriculum priorities Sustainability: environmental social economic Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia

AC: General Capabilities Critical and creative thinking Personal and social capability Ethical understanding Intercultural understanding Context for literacy, numeracy, ICT capability

Year 2 (and Year 6) Geography The connections of people in Australia to other places in Australia, the countries of the Asia region, and across the world. Image Credit: Adam Cohn Yr 3-4 Visual Arts draft Explore and explain visual arts works and comment on the connections with Australia, the Asia region and other world regions Senior Secondary Essential Mathematics Unit 4: Earth geometry and time zones Interconnection and Globalisation

Social Justice & Human Rights Year 6 Geography Differences in the economic, demographic and social characteristics between countries across the world. (ACHGK032) Yr 6 Civics and citizenship draft Identifying the obligations people may consider they have as global citizens, such as an obligation to be aware of human rights issues Yr 9 Economics and business draft Ways of measuring standard of living within an economy and between economies Image credit: jasimsarker

Identity & Cultural Diversity F Languages: Indonesian draft 1.14 Identify own language and culture and notice that these impact on how we communicate with others who may or may not share the same language and culture. Yr 2 Maths: Measurement and Geometry Name and order months and seasons (ACMMG040) Yr 7-8 Health and Physical Education draft Discuss the cultural and/or historical significance of a range of physical activities Image credit: DIAC Images

Peace Building &Conflict Resolution Yr 2 English Use interaction skills including initiating topics… and voicing disagreement in an appropriate manner… (ACELY1789) Year 6 History Experiences of democracy and citizenship, including the status and rights of Aboriginal people and/or Torres Strait Islanders, migrants, and women. (ACHHK114) Senior Secondary Modern History Unit 4: The Modern World since The Search for Peace and Security

Sustainable futures Yr 1 Science People use science in their daily lives, including when caring for their environment and living things (ACSHE022) Year 5 Geography skills …propose individual and collective action in response to a contemporary geographical challenge and describe the expected effects of their proposal on different groups of people (ACHGS039) Yr 7-8 Design and Technology Draft Describe ways to create effective designed solutions that consider ethics, social values and sustainability factors through selecting and combining properties and characteristics of resources. Image Credit: Se Hasibagen, AusAID

Global Fact Match

Share a time when you have felt most excited about global citizenship in action in your class, school or broader community

Global Education in Australian Schools Case studies online learning/school-case-studies.html

Emerald Primary School, Victoria Plastic life cycles

Kalbarri DHS, Kalbarri, WA Plastic life cycles

Imagine your school community in 5 years’ time. Imagine that global education has grown in strength and there are many positive stories of young people being involved in shaping the future of their local and global community. What are the three most significant things going on? How have you been involved?

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The Globally Engaged School How effectively does your school embrace the principles of global education? What are the opportunities to think, plan and act for the future? pp

Planning for global education What are the areas where you feel global education could have the most impact in your classroom or school?

What will work best in your classroom? What resources will you need? What skills and expertise will you need to draw on?

Resources to explore Books DVDs Teaching kits Discovery boxes Display kits Posters Simulation games Global Education website Global Education website Other online resources

Global Teaching Advocates 2014 Funding and support to carry out a global education project in your school Range of projects carried out over the past 3 years in primary and secondary schools in WA Now accepting expressions of interest.

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