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Huw Owen, from the Disasters Emergency Committee Scotland and IDEAS Board Member, explains how the Turkey Syria earthquake has impacted on children and young people.
A short engaging film can invite curiosity and empathy around some of the big global issues of our time. Here is our selection for all ages. Each one has accompanying activity ideas.
Here is our selection for ages. Each one has accompanying activity ideas.
What role can maths play in understanding and addressing global issues young people care about? We hear from Maths teachers who have been exploring this in the classroom.
© Crispin Hughes/Oxfam
How much do young people value education here? Have they made the link between what they learn at school and their futures?
Aims
- To compare the value of education for children in different parts of the world
- To begin to understand the link between education and development
© Aly Wight
This active lesson explores how life chances and the ability to participate in society are influenced by education.
Aims
- To understand the reasons why children’s have unequal access to education and the barriers involved.
- To reflect on the ways education improves our life chances.
The harder you work the richer you get? Find out your pupils viewpoints on this and other issues, and consider the impact a global citizenship approach has on these attitudes and opinions.
Aims
- To find out what pupils views are on a series of statements connected to global citizenship
- To measure how pupil’s views change over time and reflect on why they changed
Ciara Regan, editor of 80:20 Development in an Unequal World, explains the central role women have to play in the development process if it is to be successful.
Global Citizenship provides real-life contexts which engage learners’ curiosity and make them want to use maths to formulate ideas about the world. Anne Kane, Oxfam Education, suggests ideas and resources for taking this approach.
Is it true that the world’s 80 richest people own the same amount of wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population? An activity to introduce an exploration of inequality.
Developing critical thinking around global issues is central to developing global citizens. This is a simple, easy-to-remember framework which can provide a focus for work on issues. It can be applied to almost any theme/ issue and you can use a range of resources such as a photograph, a plant, an object or even a story as the stimulus.
