What is Global Citizenship Education
“an educational process aimed at increasing awareness and understanding of the rapidly changing, interdependent and unequal world in which we live”
By challenging stereotypes and encouraging independent thinking, GCE helps students critically explore the root causes of global justice issues and how they link with our everyday lives
GCE inspires solidarity by supporting people to realise their full rights, responsibilities and potential as global citizens in order to take meaningful action for a just and sustainable world
WWGS Geography Guide
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1.Discuss the interactions and interconnections within these goals - how systems both human and natural interact (consider linkages between people, places, environments)
2.What are some of the implications of the current global systems and structures, which promote and facilitate overconsumption? Who is gaining and who is not?
Group 1 (p.17)
Strand 1. Focus: Renewable V Non-Renewable Energy Sources
REVIEW - Go through the focus and suggested activities
REFLECT - What activities would you use? How would you adapt them?
CONSIDER YOUR APPROACH:
1.Whose various viewpoints are missing hear?
x
2.What critical questions need to be asked on this issue?
x
3.How is this connected to other justice issues?
x
4.What responses? E.g. how might students raise awareness/ take action/ stand in solidarity?
x
Group 2
Strand 2 Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) (P.20)
REVIEW - Go through the focus and suggested activities
REFLECT - What activities would you use? Use the videos as an introduction to the topic, then use the spheres to discuss the socio & economic consequences of the fracking. How would you adapt them?
CONSIDER YOUR APPROACH:
1.Whose various viewpoints are missing?
x ethical viewpoint --> students could form this through discussion
2.What critical questions need to be asked on this issue?
x Sustainability of the process
x Safety --> health and environmental
3.How is this connected to other justice issues?
x
4.What responses? E.g. how might students raise awareness/ take action/ stand in solidarity?
x debating the issue within the class and with other schools
x social media campagin
x local contact highlighting concerns
Group 3
Strand 2 Focus: Soil (P.24)
REVIEW - Go through the focus and suggested activities
REFLECT - What activities would you use? How would you adapt them?
CONSIDER YOUR APPROACH:
1.Whose various viewpoints are missing?
x
2.What critical questions need to be asked on this issue?
x
3.How is this connected to other justice issues?
x
4.What responses? E.g. how might students raise awareness/ take action/ stand in solidarity?
x
Group 4
Strand 3 Focus: Refugees and Climate Migrants (P.33)
REVIEW - Read through the focus and suggested activities
REFLECT - What activities would you use? How would you adapt them?
CONSIDER YOUR APPROACH:
1.Whose various viewpoints are missing?
x
2.What critical questions need to be asked on this issue?
x
3.How is this connected to other justice issues?
x
4.What responses? E.g. how might students raise awareness/ take action/ stand in solidarity?
x
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