The Global Learning issue

Development education:

“an active learning process, founded on values of solidarity, equality, inclusion and co-operation. It enables people to move from basic awareness of international development priorities and sustainable human development, through understanding of the causes and effects of global issues to personal involvement and informed actions. Development education fosters the full participation of all citizens in influencing more just and sustainable economic, social, environmental, and human rights based national and international policies (DEEEP, 2004).”

The Global Learning is proposed as the application of the pedagogy of development education.

Global Learning can be defined as:

"The global dimension explores what connects us to the rest of the world. It enables learners to engage with complex global issues and explore links between their own lives and people, places and issues throughout the world. The global dimension can relate to both developing and developed countries. It helps learners to imagine different futures and the role they can play in creating a fair and sustainable world." (The National Curriculum)

By including the global dimension, links can easily be made between local and global issues and people are given the opportunity to:

1. Critically examine their own values and attitudes

2. Appreciate the similarities between peoples everywhere, and learn to value diversity

3. Understand the global context of their local lives

4. Develop skills that will enable them to combat injustice, prejudice and discrimination

Education

The Global Learning Initiative aims to equip students with the skills, knowledge and

dispositions to understand, negotiate and succeed in a globalized world.

How?

1. New programs that gives faculties practically complete control of transforming the curriculum to assure that students have appropriate global learning experiences

Underlying the idea of the global dimension to the curriculum are eight key concepts:

2. Experiences abroad offered by Universities

Doble degreesErasmus projectOverseas project

3. Professional and after studies programs

Erasmus placementLeonardo da VinciDeals for university professors and secondary

school teacher for education Individual internship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6pX06sOEdw

How to build a curriculum that shows this new “global dimension”.

My experience:

NGOs approach

NGOs that generally have to deal with this topic have to face with two main question:

1. Inequalities in the level of education between countries

2. Differences in the access of education for everybody

an awareness campaign to be effective must:

1. Inform content, knowledge and skills

2. Sensitize motivation, emotion and volition

3. Get people involved communication, action and co-operation

Examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1nN6mvzabg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lma5oPLelw

Globalization and global learning

How the globalization of markets has influenced the daily life and costumes of peoples very far away from each other

How this mostly economic aspect has developed and it has transformed itself in a comprehensive frame

what’s about the curriculum part?

Thank you all for your kind attention