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"Your classroom is going global? That's great! But before you pack your bags, you might want to ask what, exactly, should a global learning experience be like for today's students?" Project Based Learning (remember the 60s & 70s before the NC?)

This website provides information, links, activities and opportunities for engagement around global learning and the global dimension, particularly in schools.

Rethinking… almost everything: The Global Village Construction Set Ken Webster's blog about GVCS from openformtech.org

" Post links that include ideas, examples, and projects related to connecting educators and classrooms with a strong emphasis on promoting global awareness, fostering global competency, and inspiring action towards solving real-world problems."

This website is a guide to books, films, posters and web resources which support global, intercultural and environmental understanding for all age groups and subjects. From climate change to poverty, water to fair trade, you can find a huge range of teaching resources and background material.

This website is a guide to books, films, posters and web resources which support global, intercultural and environmental understanding for all age groups and subjects.From climate change to poverty, water to fair trade, you can find a huge range of teaching resources and background material.

Introduce the global dimension to your school day! Download or order easy-to-use assemblies, classroom activities and games to help students engage with world issues and reflect on their own role as global citizens.

The magazine for schools about global development issues.

The magazine for schools about global development issues.

Global teaching and learning. Resources, quizzes and games, curriculum resources.

This page contains resources to support for classroom topics and CPD opportunities for teachers looking to take a global approach to addressing the four capacities of the Curriculum for Excellence.

The educational initiative Through Other Eyes (TOE) offers a free online study programme for educators highlighting indigenous perpectives of the development agenda. TOE focuses on the development of transnational, cultural and critical literacies.\nTOE is jointly hosted by Global Education Derby and the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice. \n

"The Earth Charter Initiative" is an extraordinarily diverse, global network of people, organizations, and institutions that participate in promoting and implementing the values and principles of the Earth Charter. This page contains a guide for using the Earth Charter in education, including key resources for teachers.

"The Earth Charter Initiative" is an extraordinarily diverse, global network of people, organizations, and institutions that participate in promoting and implementing the values and principles of the Earth Charter. This page contains a guide for using the Earth Charter in education, including key resources for teachers.

This is the global gateway to educational partnerships! Information on projects, collaboration, funding and programmes. Toolkits, case studies and resources for teachers / schools.

This is the global gateway to educational partnerships! Information on projects, collaboration, funding and programmes. Toolkits, case studies and resources for teachers / schools.

enter the debate in USA advocates TEDed and YouTube

"The GLP is a ground-breaking new programme which will create a national network of like-minded schools, committed to equipping their students to succeed in a globalised world by helping their teachers to deliver effective teaching and learning about development and global issues at Key Stages 2 and 3."

A new programme. Worth taking part.

OSDE IN BRIEF\nThe OSDE methodology supports the creation of OPEN SAFE SPACES FOR DIALOGUE AND ENQUIRY about GLOBAL ISSUES and PERSPECTIVES focusing on INTERDEPENDENCE. \nIn these spaces, people are invited to ENGAGE CRITICALLY with their OWN and with DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES, think INDEPENDENTLY and make INFORMED and RESPONSIBLE decisions about how they want to think and what they want to do. \nThe OSDE methodology offers a SET OF PROCEDURES and SUGGESTED GROUND RULES that can be adapted to different age groups and contexts.\nThe key is to create spaces where people GATHER TOGETHER to LISTEN and TRANSFORM THEMSELVES - LEARNING and UNLEARNING together, re-inventing ways of RELATING to one another and IMAGINING OTHER POSSIBLE FUTURES.

Education for Sustainability (E4S) resources, links, news & help for tutors, students and teachers trying to embed ESD (Education for Sustainable Development) and GC (Global Citizenship) in ITE (Initial Teacher Education). These materials inform the "sustainability debate" in HE and schools, encouraging\nAWARENESS, REFLECTION, ACTION, and CONNECTION with a range of VIEWPOINTS.\n

We Are What We Do is a global movement that believes it's not just politicians, institutions and big businesses that can change the world - ordinary people can do it too.

We Are What We Do is a global movement that believes it's not just politicians, institutions and big businesses that can change the world - ordinary people can do it too.

"Join the largest online community of youth interested in global issues and creating positive chnage." looks interesting, any of you using this?

Elizabet Sahtouris: The biology of Globalisation " All living systems self-organize and maintain themselves by the same biological principles, which we can identify and abstract. Among the principles essential to the health of living systems are empowered participation of all parts and continual negotiation of self-interest at all levels of organization. Humanity constitutes a living system within the larger living system of our Earth. Essential to the health of humanity is empowered participation of all humans and negotiated self-interest among individual, local and global economies as well as the Earth itself."

Earthkeepers One Tribe Trading Company is an organization with a focus on environmental integrity, deep ecology, community relations, tribal values, and global peace.