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Write for Rights 2018: A Human Rights Education Toolkit for Educators Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: Amnesty International The annual Write for Rights (W4R) campaign is one of Amnesty International’s biggest human rights events. In 2018 the campaign focuses on women human rights defenders who have suffered human rights violations or are at great risk because of the positions they have taken on certain human rights issues.This Human Rights Education toolkit was created to support teachers’ participation with their students in the W4R campaign. It provides a broad perspective on human rights issues and offers the opportunity to open young people’s minds to global concerns. By learning about and writing persuasive letters to help end human rights violations and achieve justice, teachers and students contribute to the international human rights movement and see for themselves how words can make a difference in the world.This toolkit was created for students aged 13 and above and is primarily designed for use in a school setting: both inside the classroom as well as in clubs or school-wide events. Activities can also be adapted for use in other, non-formal education contexts such as youth groups and community settings. The toolkit contains general activities on human rights and highlights six women human rights defenders from the W4R campaign who have made extraordinary contributions to the advancement of human rights around the world. Escribe por los derechos 2018: Carpeta de materiales de educación en derechos humanos para educadores/as Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: Amnesty International La campaña anual Escribe por los Derechos es uno de los mayores eventos de derechos humanos de Amnistía Internacional. En 2018, la campaña se centra en defensoras de los derechos humanos que han sufrido violaciones de derechos humanos o corren grave riesgo a causa de la postura que han adoptado respecto a ciertas cuestiones de derechos humanos.Esta carpeta de materiales de Educación en Derechos Humanos se creó para ayudar a profesores y profesoras a participar con sus estudiantes en la campaña Escribe por los Derechos. Ofrece una amplia perspectiva de cuestiones de derechos humanos y brinda la oportunidad de abrir la mente de los y las jóvenes a cuestiones de preocupación mundiales. Al aprender sobre estas cuestiones y escribir cartas convincentes para ayudar a poner fin a las violaciones de derechos humanos y lograr justicia, los profesores y profesoras y sus estudiantes contribuyen al movimiento internacional de derechos humanos y ven con sus propios ojos cómo las palabras pueden hacer cambiar las cosas en el mundo.Esta carpeta se creó para estudiantes de a partir de 13 años y está concebida principalmente para utilizarla en un entorno escolar: tanto dentro del aula como en clubes o eventos de toda la escuela. Las actividades también se pueden adaptar para utilizarlas en otros contextos de educación no formal, como grupos de jóvenes y entornos comunitarios. La carpeta contiene actividades generales sobre derechos humanos y destaca el caso de seis defensoras de los derechos humanos de la campaña Escribe por los Derechos que han hecho contribuciones extraordinarias al progreso de los derechos humanos en todo el mundo. Écrire pour les droits 2018: Manuel d´éducation aux droits humains pou les éducateurs et éducatrices Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: Amnesty International La campagne annuelle Écrire pour les droits est l’une des plus importantes actions d’Amnesty International autour des droits humains. L’édition 2018 est axée sur les défenseures des droits humains qui sont victimes de violations de leurs droits fondamentaux ou en grand danger du fait de leur position sur certaines questions relatives aux droits humains.Le manuel Éducation aux droits humains vise à favoriser la participation des enseignant-e-s et de leurs élèves à la campagne Écrire pour les droits. Il offre une perspective large sur les questions relatives aux droits humains et la possibilité de sensibiliser les jeunes à des préoccupations mondiales. En en apprenant davantage et en rédigeant des lettres convaincantes pour aider à mettre fin aux violations des droits humains et à obtenir justice, les enseignant-e-s et leurs élèves contribuent au mouvement international des droits humains et voient par elles/eux-mêmes que les mots peuvent faire la différence.Ce manuel est destiné aux élèves de 13 ans et plus pour une utilisation en contexte scolaire, tant en classe que dans des clubs ou des manifestations organisées à l’école. Les activités peuvent cependant être adaptées à des contextes d’apprentissage plus informels comme des groupes de jeunes et des associations. Le manuel propose des activités générales sur les droits humains et met en avant six défenseures des droits humains choisies au titre de la campagne Écrire pour les droits qui ont apporté des contributions extraordinaires à la progression des droits fondamentaux dans le monde entier. 
Global citizenship: a typology for distinguishing its multiple conceptions Year of publication: 2013 Author: Laura Oxley | Paul Morris Corporate author: Society for Educational Studies | Taylor & Francis The promotion of ‘Global Citizenship’ (GC) has emerged as a goal of schooling in many countries, symbolising a shift away from national towards more global conceptions of citizenship. It currently incorporates a proliferation of approaches and terminologies, mirroring both the diverse conceptions of its nature and the socio-politico contexts within which it is appropriated. This paper seeks to clarify this ambiguity by constructing a typology to identify and distinguish the diverse conceptions of GC. The typology is based on two general forms of GC: cosmopolitan based and advocacy based. The former incorporates four distinct conceptions of GC – namely, the political, moral, economic and cultural; the latter incorporates four other conceptions – namely, the social, critical, environmental and spiritual. Subsequently, we briefly illustrate how the typology can be used to evaluate the critical features of a curriculum plan designed to promote GC in England. The typology provides a novel and powerful means to analyse the key features of the very diverse range of educational policies and programmes that promote GC. La Citoyenneté Mondiale: une typologie pour distinguer ses multiples conceptions Year of publication: 2013 Author: Laura Oxley | Paul Morris Corporate author: Society for Educational Studies | Taylor & Francis La promotion de la «Citoyenneté Mondiale» (CM) a émergé comme un objectif de scolarisation dans de nombreux pays, symbolisant l'abandon des nationaux vers des conceptions plus globales de la citoyenneté. Il intègre actuellement une prolifération d'approches et terminologies, reflétant à la fois les diverses conceptions de la nature et les contextes socio-politico au sein duquel il est approprié. Ce document vise à clarifier cette ambiguïté en construisant une typologie pour identifier et distinguer les diverses conceptions de la CM. La typologie est basée sur deux formes générales de CM: cosmopolite base et sur la base de plaidoyer. L'ancien incorpore quatre conceptions distinctes de CM - à savoir la politique, morale, économique et culturelle; celui-ci comporte quatre autres conceptions - à savoir, le spirituel sociale, critique, de l'environnement et. Par la suite, nous illustrons brièvement comment la typologie peut être utilisé pour évaluer les caractéristiques essentielles d'un plan de programme conçu pour promouvoir la CM en Angleterre. La typologie fournit une nouvelle et des moyens puissants pour analyser les principales caractéristiques de la gamme très diversifiée de politiques et de programmes éducatifs qui favorisent la CM. 
The Critical global educator: global citizenship education as sustainable development Year of publication: 2016 Author: Maureen Eills An acknowledged challenge for humanitarian democratic education is its perceived lack of philosophical and theoretical foundation, often resulting in peripheral academic status and reduced prestige. A rich philosophical and theoretical tradition does however exist. This book synthesises crucial concepts from Critical Realism, Critical Social Theory, Critical Discourse Studies, neuro-, psycho-, socio- and cognitive-linguistic research, to provide critical global educators with a Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) framework for self- and negotiated evaluation. 
Learning about Development at A-Level: A study of the impact of the World Development A-level on Young People’s Understanding of International Development (Development Education Research Centre Research Paper; No.7) Year of publication: 2012 Author: Gill Miller | Elizabeth Bowes | Douglas Bourn | Juan Miquel Castro Corporate author: Development Education Research Centre (DERC) Learning about development has been a feature of the school curriculum in England for a number of years, most notably through Geography and there has been increased interest in examination courses at post-sixteen. By reviewing what young people have learnt and gained from such a course, this report aims to demonstrate how young people perceive international development issues and what impact this has had on their views about the wider world. 
The Global Learning Programme: Celebrating Achievement; A Selection of Case Studies and Quotes from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales Corporate author: Global Learning Programme (GLP) The Global Learning Programme has achieved unprecedented success in its reach to schools across the United Kingdom, with over 10,000 schools registered, and more than 40,000 teachers and 500,000 pupils involved. A high proportion of schools that engaged with the programme had not been involved with global learning previously, and there is a high percentage of positive impact recorded in schools all across the UK. Each of the programmes, in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, has a range of case studies and other evidence from schools on their websites. Here is gathered together a small selection of these and a range of quotes that show glimpses of what has been achieved, the diversity of the schools, and the benefits and impact of global learning. 
Fair enough? Talking about aid and development Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: Oxfam | Christian Aid This resource aims to introduce to learners the concepts of aid and development and how these differ; how a limited development budget might be most effectively spent; critically evaluating media stories around development spending and the Global Goals for Sustainable Development. There are four session plans. Each includes an outline of the session with activity description, background information, photocopiable resource sheets for learners and links to online articles and video. 
Cosmopolitan Sidestep: University Life, Intimate Geopolitics and the Hidden Costs of “Global” Citizenship (Area; Vol. 51, No. 4) Year of publication: 2018 Author: Mike Dimpfl | Sara Smith Corporate author: Royal Geographical Society | Wiley In higher education in the US today, particular practices of global engagement are positioned as essential to student learning. Institutional stakeholders foreground the potential of outward‐facing orientation to the globe while sidestepping local connections to racial inequality and injustice foregrounded by student and waged‐worker activism. Faculty and student composition, course content and hierarchies of waged work have been targeted by activists from within and without. In this example, relations between labour, students and administrators at a large southern research university in the USA reveal the mechanisms by which especially neoliberal cosmopolitanisms require an intentional and narrow rendering of what and who counts in the production of campus life. A discussion of student activism and changes to housekeeping work practices reveal how power is produced and divided by controlling and corralling particular kinds of social reproductive labour. In light of the redistribution and erasure of this labour, we argue that US universities are geopolitical in nature, shaping young people's orientations to an imagined global citizenship to create a specific form of cosmopolitanism that centres whiteness and makes claim to a globally oriented generosity rather than a justice‐oriented framework with explicit connections to the breadth of waged work undergirding university life and practice. To create this possibility, the university frequently side‐steps complex interconnections between student life and systems of racialised, ethnicised and gendered exploitation in local spaces in favour of a focus of similar inequalities in the world “out there.”