Sustainable development

Global Citizenship

Geography

Key reading on development

Literacy

Learning outside the classroom

ITE stimulus material

Full A-Z list of publications

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Enabling global learning through the KS3 curriculum
Designed to offer an overview for curriculum managers, staff teams and those supporting schools.  It draws upon the varied experiences of teacher groups who have grappled with the teaching and learning implications of current global issues.  It offers a spectrum of ideas, activities and starting points as a stimulus to your own planning.

Global learning in primary schools
Explores practical ideas about the educational needs of children within a changing global context, drawing on the creative work of a wide range of key stage 1 and 2 teachers. Supports professional development and will stimulate discussion about global learning approaches.

Sustainable development

Food & farming
Supports children as they learn to make connections between their own community and the wider world. Bananas, strawberries and an African garden provide colourful case studies. Includes full colour photographs and lively teaching ideas. KS2/3
Partnership: FACE

Water issues
Uses water as a way in to exploring sustainable development with KS2 children. Pack of A4 colour photographs are included to support discussion about water issues in different places all over the world. Uses the seven key concepts for sustainable development education as an organising framework. KS2
Partnership: Severn Trent Water

Climate change
These materials adopt a learner-centred, enquiry approach, to this highly topical issue. Shares ideas for planning and teaching and is supported by full colour photos and illustrations, internet links and downloadable material. KS2/3

Lessons in sustainability
Ideas for teaching about sustainable development issues, produced in response to the World Summit in Johannesburg. Includes activities on themes of water and sanitation, the health of our environment, agriculture and food, and climate change. KS2/3

Learning today ... with tomorrow in mind
A poster pack designed to support whole school planning on sustainable development education and to stimulate further thinking, across the curriculum and the key stages.

Educating for sustainability
Resource produced jointly by Gambian and British teachers. Information on sustainable development themes is combined with case studies and lively classroom activities.
Partnership: National Environment Agency, Gambia

Waking up
Takes every-day items [soap, shampoo, breakfast cereals etc], looks at the plant products they contain [eg aloe vera, palm oil, sugar] and considers sustainability issues surrounding them. Ideas for using a school visit as a stimulus to learning. KS2
Partnership: Birmingham Botanical Gardens Education Base

Special offer set
Responding to the DfES Sustainable Schools Framework
Set of 4 resources useful for planning, curriculum and whole school thinking. Supports work responding to the Sustainable Schools Framework.

Global Citizenship

Young children & global citizenship
Children’s experiences involve connections to places and people throughout the world. This resource draws on creative thinking and practice by KS1 and Foundation Stage teachers for supporting children’s growing sense of their global citizenship. It includes children’s work, case studies and ideas for taking the work further.

Whose citizenship? ... a teachers’ toolkit
Offers a toolkit of ideas for enabling a global approach to ‘local’ citizenship investigations. Approaches include the use of newspapers, statistics, photographs, local visits and web-sites. Teachers involved also share their insights and reflections about key principles and potential pitfalls. KS3

Rehearsing our roles
Drama-based activities to support work with children as active citizens. Enables them to explore possibilities and viewpoints in a dynamic, challenging, yet safe way. Offers a toolkit of activities. KS1-4

Citizenship & Muslim perspectives
Explores the context for work on Muslim perspectives and priority issues for schools. Case study material illustrates the potential for classroom approaches, and web-site and resource references offer further support.
Partnership: Islamic Relief

Cities and citizenship
Cities are significant places, locally, nationally and globally. As places of innovation and diversity they are at the cutting edge of development. This teacher’s handbook offers ideas to raise issues and prompt enquiry. Case studies enable students to investigate different perspectives and think creatively about their role as global citizens. KS3/4

Building new citizenship
Explores themes of identity, sustainable development and participation. The activities are based upon a premise of commonality: that we share experiences of citizenship with others in the world, and exploring these experiences can enhance our own understanding and awareness. Contains photos, maps and artwork. KS3

Family Album
A highly versatile set of 32 colour photographs for raising issues through Citizenship. All the images are taken within the UK. An essential part of the Citizenship teacher’s toolkit [see page 5 for further details].
Partnership: Parentline Plus

Special offer
Key Citizenship Resources
Set of 4 resources packed with materials to support Citizenship teaching. Includes case studies, lesson plans and support for curriculum planning.

Geography

What is development?
Geographical Association Silver Award, 2004
A comprehensive resource to support enquiry about development issues. Photos, world maps, cartoons, web-site support and teaching ideas provide a stimulus, but also help teachers take a fresh look at development and how it is taught. KS3

Citizenship in common?
A poster pack to support learners’ understanding of the relationship between Europe and Africa. The four maps [each using a different style] represent this relationship by focusing on historical, trade, wealth and future dimensions. KS2/3

Jamaica
A poster pack focusing on Jamaica and the island’s links with Britain. It enables children to explore Jamaica as a place, its historical context, Jamaican identity and some of the issues affecting the country today. KS2

Key reading on development

80:20 development in an unequal world
5th edition
An updated and completely revised version of this essential text for students. It introduces some of the major development, human rights and justice issues affecting the world today. Contributions from a range of authors offer diverse viewpoints, supported by photographs, statistics, quotes and cartoons. The materials aim to stimulate thought, debate and analysis of the issues in order for readers to develop and extend their own understanding.

Free CD of text and extra stimulus material available with book on request.

Literacy

Start with a story
QCA recommended
Ideas for using picture books as a springboard for exploring issues.
Supports planning and includes activities, case studies and an extensive resource list. KS1

Writing our past
2007 sees the Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade. This resource is packed with ideas to support children to research and write about the achievements of people, from all over the world, who have lived in Britain. Takes the life of Olaudah Equiano as an example. Suggests sources for further stimulus. KS2

A different story
Ideas for using stories to raise global issues. The texts used explore issues of conflict, equality and racism and provide a wealth of starting points to support discussion and debate. KS2

Fat felts & sugar paper
Activities to support speaking and listening, including ideas for exploring photographs and debating issues. KS2

Learning outside the classroom

At the heart of it
~ using local collections to inspire global learning
Developed by a group of museums, libraries and archives professionals, using their own experiences to provide a practical, user-friendly toolkit to demonstrate how collections can be used effectively to support secondary education.

Learning Journeys
~ creating a global learning experience at KS2
How can we create powerful experiences and meaningful learning journeys for the children we teach?

ITE stimulus material

Towards Ubuntu
Written by ITE tutors for ITE students. A comparative exploration of the education system and key citizenship themes found here and in South Africa. Provides a wealth of material for debate and discussion on issues such as race, racism and education; literacy and empowerment; disability and inclusion; conflict resolution and peace.

Exploring Ubuntu
Introduces theories about the role of education in development, using South Africa as a case study. Designed to enable enquiry around the issues these theories generate. These issues are key to thinking about the role of schools and education systems anywhere in the world. Lively format, full colour and packed with activities.
For 16-19 and HE, particularly ITE

Comparative education and quality global learning
Engaging with controversial issues in South Africa and the UK
One of the outcomes of a Tide~ project that involved a group of UK teacher educators in a study visit to South Africa. Comparative study supported them in reflecting on their own, as well as South African, educational practice.  This book highlights many perspectives that need to be part of an international debate about the role of education to build a better future built on the commonality of our global experiences.