A Transformative Approach to Global Education

Dr Cathryn MacCallum Sazani Associates

Global Learning• Summary of presentation

• Global Learning in Schools is best achieved through extending a Professional Learning Community (PLC) model to focus on the global

• Journey from School Links to Global Professional Learning Community (ERLAFS, GLEW, HSS)

Our GPLC incorporates the key values of the global learning ethos:Participation InclusionCritical and creative thinking

Healthy & Sustainable Schools

Framework• Pedagogical Approaches• Global/Local Issues• Peer-Peer Learning

Approach:•Subject specific•Interdisciplinary•Whole School

Healthy & Sustainable Schools • Aim: To develop an educational

intervention to improve the quality of teaching and learning of life and enterprise skills.

• Goal: To ensure that children completing secondary education have life skills that link learning to livelihoods with global awareness and enterprise skills.

• Theory: Children that complete secondary education with these skills will actively engage and will increase their involvement in all aspects of livelihood development at a community level.

Curriculum Enrichment

Shared learning resources

Environmental Awareness

Child focussed learning

Teaching using different approaches

Shared Learning Opportunities

Global Professional Learning Communities and Collaborative Working

The eight key characteristics of our GPLC:

• shared values and vision; • collective responsibility for pupils’

learning;• collaboration focused on learning;

• group as well as individual professional learning;

• reflective professional enquiry;• openness,

• networks and partnerships;

• inclusive membership; • and mutual trust,

respect and support

Diamond Ranking Exercises

Stakeholder Plan & Review workshop

Activities, Inputs & Outcomes Planning

Criteria for the HSS Award

Planning

Action

Communication and Participation

Achievement of Award

One HSS

•Satisfactory completion of three topics

Two HSS

•Satisfactory completion of 5 topics•A whole school healthy and sustainable management programme

Three HSS

•Satisfactory completion of 9 topics,•A whole school healthy and sustainable management plan• Inclusion of healthy and sustainability principles within your school development plan

Achievement of HSS Award

A question of criticality

• Small island in a global arena• Tourism juxtapose Salafism• Knowledge and understanding• Critical and reflexive approaches to learning• Secular criticism and worldliness (Said 1993)• Confidence to address complex and often

controversial issues and to not have the answers.

Thank you

www.sazaniassociates.org.uk

cathryn@sazaniassociates.org.uk