Work in Schools

HEC Global Learning Centre helps prepare young people for an increasingly globalised world by:

promoting critical and creative thinking,

enabling “student voice” and supporting participation,

raising the profile of global issues,

encouraging positive local action for global change.

 

Global Learning is an approach which leads to greater understanding of global inequalities, why they exist, and what can be done about them.

 

Global Learning in schools aims to give pupils:

a global perspective by using active learning methods, based on enquiry into issues and ideas,

the knowledge, skills and attitudes which promote justice and equality in a multicultural society and interdependent world.

 

Underlying global learning are eight key concepts:

Developing the global dimension in the school curriculum

DfES March 2005

To see examples of recent work click here Further examples of the range of work carried out with primary pupils can be seen through the link on the left to East End Talking, the website for Tower Hamlets primary pupils to create and present their work to share with other children and to learn about being active young citizens.