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Education for Global Citizenship: A Guide for Schools Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: Oxfam GB Education for global citizenship supports young people to explore and question the world around them. It promotes critical thinking, advocates social justice and encourages learners to apply their learning to real-world issues.This guide is packed with practical information for mapping global citizenship across different subject areas and age groups. It also includes inspiring case studies from schools that take a global citizenship approach to teaching and learning. 
Global Citizenship in the Classroom: A Guide for Teachers Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: Oxfam GB This guide is packed with practical tools and advice for teachers wanting to embed global citizenship in their classrooms. Learn how to effectively bring a global lens into your teaching with our handy planning framework, participation methods, and tools to assess learning.Develop your teaching practice with both innovative and tried-and-tested approaches. Help your learners ask questions, make connections, and take action as active global citizens. 
Background: Using Photographs in the Classroom Corporate author: Oxfam GB It's a universal truth that a picture tells a thousand words. Images and artefacts can help bring your lessons to life. They can challenge stereotypes, engender empathy and increase your learners' understanding of other countries and cultures.Explore how to effectively use photographs in your lessons to foster debate and promote positive images of the countries you're learning about. 
Maths and Global Citizenship Corporate author: Oxfam GB Maths can help your learners better understand different people, places and patterns in the world. Teaching it with a global angle can also give an insight into how maths can be applied and used to address and inform real-world issues.This guide includes creative ideas for how global citizenship can be utilised in core areas of the curriculum like ratios and fractions, probability and number. It's also filled with innovative resources for use in your classroom. 
English and Global Citizenship Corporate author: Oxfam GB English lessons are an opportunity for your learners to explore new and diverse cultures, hone their language skills and develop empathy.This guide includes ideas for learning about the world whilst improving speaking and listening, reading, writing and media literacy skills. It also contains handy links to further resources and ideas for books which can help capture your learners' imaginations. 
Global Citizenship Guides: Teaching Controversial Issues Year of publication: 2006 Corporate author: Oxfam GB This guide aims to demonstrate how, by enhancing young people’s ability to handle controversial issues, teachers can support and develop them as global citizens.This guide explores:what controversial issues arewhy controversial issues should be taughtwhy some issues are, or can become, controversialwhat guidance exists for handling controversial issuesclassroom strategies for handling and exploring controversial issuessome practical activities for teaching controversial issues. 
Science and Global Citizenship Corporate author: Oxfam GB Nurturing global scientists is key to the creation of a clean and fairer world for the future. A global citizenship approach enables learners to appreciate the relevance of science and investigate how it can be used to answer vital questions to global challenges.This guide includes practical advice for embedding global citizenship in topic areas like health and disease, water and climate change. It also has handy links to teaching resources which can be used in your lessons. 
Youth Participation for Active Global Citizenship: Future Youth School Forums Project Report Year of publication: 2018 Author: Anna Jarkiewicz | Joanna Leek Corporate author: Oxfam GB | University of S odz (Poland) The Future Youth School Forums (FYS-Forums) project took place in Cyprus, Italy, Poland, Lithuania and the UK from 2015 to 2018 and was funded by EU Erasmus+. Its aim was to show how creating a group of engaged young global participants requires the engagement of teachers in activities to promote global citizenship – and to provide teachers and young people with the tools to promote effective and inclusive youth leadership across formal and informal education through global citizenship forums.This report on the project looks at the role of teachers and partnerships with students in raising critical awareness of global citizenship. 
Back to School With Global Citizenship Corporate author: Oxfam GB Global citizenship is all about encouraging young people to develop the knowledge, skills and values they need to engage with the world. Ideal for use at the start of the academic year or a new topic, the following activities support learners aged 7 to 14 to develop some of the key elements of responsible global citizenship: to ask questions, make connections, and explore viewpoints and values. 
The Sustainable Development Goals: A Guide for Teachers Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: Oxfam GB This guide supports teachers and educators working with young people to deepen their understanding of education about and for the SDGs and to see how global citizenship education (GCE) approaches and methodologies can underpin good practice. The guide also explores the benefits and challenges of using the SDG framework with learners in schools.