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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. 
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. 
Strengthening Coordinated Education Planning and Response in Crises: Global Mapping Report and Analysis Framework Year of publication: 2019 Author: Susan Nicolai | Allison Anderson | Marian Hodgkin | Arran Magee Corporate author: Overseas Development Institute (ODI) This report presents a framework for analysis of formal coordination approaches for education planning and response in emergencies and protracted crises. It reviews concepts and definitions of coordination, approaches and structures for coordinated planning and response, and expected outcomes of these processes, with a focus on humanitarian structures across the humanitarian–development nexus.It is part of a set of publications produced in partnership with the Global Education Cluster, the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies and UNHCR – the UN Refugee Agency – with funding from the Education Cannot Wait Fund. The conceptual framework and set of research questions that emerge from this report is applied to six country case studies, which will be published in December 2019. 
Active citizens: globally connected, locally engaged; facilitator's toolkit Year of publication: 2014 Corporate author: British Council This toolkit has been created to help facilitators to design and deliver the Active Citizens programme all over the world. Active Citizens is a social leadership programme which promotes intercultural dialogue and social responsibility as key leadership competencies in the 21st century. Active Citizens is run by the British Council working with civil society organisations all over the world. It began in 2009 and has been delivered in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. It has reached more than 100,000 people to date through its training, conferences, social research and International Study Visits. The toolkit is in five sections - the introduction to the programme, preparing a workshop, delivering a workshop and post-workshop. There is also a large resource of workshop activity plans to support facilitators throughout the training cycle. The Active Citizens programme promotes community-led social development. It motivates members of communities to take responsibility for their social needs and gives them the knowledge, skills and experience to address them. The main audiences for the programme are community leaders working in, and with marginalised communities. They are people and institutions established, trusted and valued in the community - CSOs, NGOs, religious leaders, politicians, youth workers etc. They are influential and working to improve the lives of people living in their community. The programme develops skills and knowledge to identify and engage networks to help achieve goals as well as skills to plan and implement a project. The networks are between individuals at community level; institutions engaged in social action at community level; and institutions engaged in social policy dialogue at a national level. It includes cross-sectoral networking e.g. with the business community, media, etc. The building of these networks increases social inclusion, community resilience to conflict and increases social development in communities. See Diagram 1 on page 9. The programme is flexible and adaptable. It has been delivered to diverse groups, from rural communities in North-West Frontier Province Pakistan to urban communities in East London UK, to communities vulnerable to post-election violence in Kenya and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sri Lanka. 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. 
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. World citizenship education and teacher training in a global context: Canada, India and South Africa Year of publication: 2011 Author: George Cappelle | Gary Crippin | Ulla Lundgren Corporate author: Children's identity and Citizenship in Europe (CICE) In this study we change our focus from a European setting to a global one. We were interested to see how our observations from the first study would be reflected in a more global context with focus on the cases of Canada, India and South Africa looking at both the models for world citizenship education and the influence of contextual factors.In choosing these countries we were interested in:Countries on different continentsCountries in different stages of national, social and economic developmentCountries in which there was considerable diversity in the populationCountries in which citizenship and world citizenship education was seen as an important priorityCountries, because of the limitations of researchers, which used English as a primary language.In addition to background research we asked for assistance from professors in the field of teacher education in the three countries to provide us with information on key questions related to citizenship education and teacher training. 
Programming with Adolescent Boys to Promote Gender-Equitable Masculinities: A Rigorous Review Year of publication: 2018 Author: Rachel Marcus | Maria Stavropoulou | Nandini Archer-Gupta Corporate author: Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) | UK aid This review brings evidence from 36 studies of 34 programmes working with adolescent boys and young men to promote more gender-equitable masculinities. It draws on studies with a range of evaluation designs; the key requirements were adequate description of methodology and a valid comparison between participants and non-participants, or of attitudes and behaviour before and after participation. 
Violence against Women and Girls and Resilience: Links, Impacts and Perspectives from the Chadian Context Year of publication: 2017 Author: Virginie Le Masson | Colette Benoudji | Sandra Sotelo Reyes | Giselle Bernard Corporate author: Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) This report explores the links between gender-based violence (GBV), and the resilience shown by survivors, their households and the wider community. The purpose of this study is to explore two main questions: 1. How does violence against women and girls (VAWG) impact the processes of social change required to build resilience? 2. How can resilience programmes address VAWG? 
Global Education Digest 2015-2017: Compiled by the Development Education Research Centre Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: Development Education Research Centre (DERC) This is the first edition the Global Education Digest, a bibliography of recent published academic and research material relevant to the field of global education. This Digest has been compiled by Development Education Research Centre (DERC) on behalf of Global Education Network Europe (GENE) in the framework of ANGEL activities. ANGEL (Academic Network on Global Education & Learning) is the academic network of global education researchers and academics. The Digest is divided into eight themes/ areas of work, and within each we have identified policy reports, books, academic articles and doctoral research related to global education. Items for inclusion were found through keyword searches of Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and British Library (including ETHOS and Proquest) databases, as well as through informal discussions with colleagues in the field. The core focus of the Digest is on literature on global education. Selected literature with a focus on related concepts, such as global citizenship, environmental education, and education for sustainable development, has also been included where these have clear links to concerns in global education.