{"id":330145,"date":"2010-02-17T06:03:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T11:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/applications\/blogs\/pressoffice\/?p=10851"},"modified":"2010-02-17T06:03:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T11:03:55","slug":"what-is-a-global-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/330145","title":{"rendered":"What is a global citizen?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\"Diane<\/a><\/p>\n
Diane plots opportunities to teach global citizenship<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

‘So what is global citizenship?’ I asked the group of assembled teachers attending\u00a0the Global Citizenship Training session, which was\u00a0part of\u00a0the ‘Environmental Education for a Sustainable Future’\u00a0day run by Salford City Council and attended by schools across the borough.<\/p>\n

Most\u00a0people seemed a little hesitant to put forward their understanding of global citizenship, but after a bit of a chat with their neighbours the ideas came pouring forth. The general feeling was that global citizenship was about involving young people in making connections between their world and the WHOLE world! Spot on – as well as this, of course global citizenship is\u00a0a way of teaching that involves young people in taking charge of their own learning, covering global issues\u00a0in\u00a0all parts of the\u00a0curriculum and developing the skills, values and knowledge needed to act a s a ‘global citizen’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After a quick definition of\u00a0the term\u00a0’global citizen’ http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/education\/teachersupport\/cpd\/<\/a>, teachers brainstormed the skills, knowledge and vales they wanted their learners to adopt in order to become one. A wealth of wisdom was apparent in what the teachers concluded: In order for students to engage with the global, teachers wanted their students to know about themselves and distinguish the\u00a0difference between ‘want’ and ‘need’. They wanted young people to gain social and creative skills and wholesome values such as integrity, kindness and a sense of justice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Teachers than plotted out opportunities for teaching global citizenship throughout the curriculum. Evaluations were positive,\u00a0 one teacher said the training; “made me aware of ‘global citizenship’ which is a new phrase to me”, another commented “I really enjoyed this and have lots of different ideas to put on my action plan for school”.<\/p>\n

Check out the pictures here: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ylmex38<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

If you would like to book in similar training for your school or an event please contact Jo-Anne Witcombe on 01612342793 or jwitcombe@oxfam.org.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Diane plots opportunities to teach global citizenship ‘So what is global citizenship?’ I asked the group of assembled teachers attending\u00a0the Global Citizenship Training session, which was\u00a0part of\u00a0the ‘Environmental Education for a Sustainable Future’\u00a0day run by Salford City Council and attended by schools across the borough. Most\u00a0people seemed a little hesitant to put forward their understanding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}