This page contains
details of resources and links to help support teaching and learning
on issues related to Investing in people.
Global
Dimension
Search the Global Dimension database under
the themes ‘Health’ or ‘Education’ for an extensive list
of resources.
Developing Rights
Background information and classroom activities for 11-14 year olds
exploring how young people are claiming their rights around the world.
Case
study
material
comes from countries including South Africa and Ethiopia.
The Rights Site
UNICEF site exploring child rights and issues around rights such as
water, refugees and child labour presented in students friendly language.
Young People's Commission
for Africa website - the outcome of a project which linked 25
UK schools with 25 schools in Africa between January and June 2005.
The teacher
resources section contains fact sheets and lesson plans/ideas.
Publications
The following publications may be available for teachers to borrow
or purchase from a local Development Education Centre (DEC). Click
here to find your nearest DEC. Unless otherwise stated, all the
publications are also available through the Oxfam
catalogue where resources can be found quickly by title or ISBN
and ordered online.
Secondary
Title: My Village, My Life: A Global Citizenship Resource on Village
Life in West Africa
Description: This resource focuses on groups
of people living in Mali and Burkina Faso. Pupils find out about their
lives and decide how they would respond in the same situations. Activities
range from role play and debate to group work and research. Development
issues covered include girls’ education, income generation, living
with disability, moving to a city and environmental education. The
resource features:
•
a CD containing all the resource sheets as Word documents and a variety
of photos
•
topic sheets for further information.
Publication Date: Sep 2004
Publisher: International Service
ISBN: 0954489500
Price: £14.25
Title: Developing Rights: Teaching About Rights and Responsibilities
for Ages 11 - 14
Description: This handbook starts with young people's
own concerns and examines these in terms of rights issues, putting
them into a social
and global context. It helps young people discover how to take responsibility
for claiming and maintaining rights for themselves and others by learning
from the example of other young people in the UK, Lebanon, South Africa,
Ethiopia and Brazil. For
webpages on this resource from the Cool Planet (Oxfam) website containing
classroom activities click
here. For webpages
Publication Date: Dec 2004
Publisher: Oxfam
ISBN: 187072724
Price: £14.00
Title: Just Acting
Description: A volume of drama sketches that communicate global issues.
It contains 15 sketches on global issues such as trade, water, HIV/AIDs
and debt, along with supporting information. The sketches, for two
to nine actors, are easy to perform and should be a good way to introduce
issues to young people.
Publication Date: Dec 2002
Publisher: Christian Aid
ISBN:
Price: £8.75
Title: The Challenge of Globalisation
Description: Provides a framework through which young
people can gain an understanding of the complex issue of globalisation.
It explores
not only the economic and geographical aspects of globalisation but
also the moral and ethical debates which concern young people's lives.
Publication Date: Mar 2003
Publisher: Oxfam
ISBN: 1870727576
Price: £14.00
Title: Living on the Line
Description: A video pack featuring extracts from
Channel 4's "On The Line" series, supported by a range of
teachers' notes and classroom activities. "On the Line" was
a Millennium project linking the diverse countries that lie along the
meridian line. The resource builds on the broadcast material developed
for this project and features 10 short films focusing on key issues
including trade (illustrated with an example from Ghana), conflict
(Algeria), migration (Spain) and globalisation and change (Mali). Available
from Action
Aid
Publication Date: Oct 2001
Publisher: Action Aid
ISBN: 1872502717
Price: £28.20
Title: Who Decides?: Citizenship through Geography
Description: This global citizenship resource pack
focuses on conflict and peace-building in Burundi and HIV/AIDS work
in Uganda. The wide range of activities encourage students to explore
issues in their own lives and make links with the experiences of
young people around the world. Available from Action
Aid
Publication Date: Dec 2001
Publisher: Action Aid
Price: £20.63
Title: This City Life, PSE/RE
Description: A video resource with a series of activities
which enable students to learn by reflecting on the experience of other
young people. It explores issues about families, relationships and
leaving home; risky behaviour and its consequences; prejudice and discrimination;
children's rights; participation and citizenship. The video provides
interviews with young people, the booklet provides background information,
and the floppy disk offers further information and pupil pages for
easy adaptation.
Publication Date: Dec 1999
Publisher: Leeds DEC
ISBN: 1871268060
Price: £28.40 Title: Locococo
Description: This game, with supporting activities
and information, provides a framework in which young people can explore,
develop and discuss some of the concepts involved in human rights and
development. It raises issues of inequalities and says that by buying
fair trade goods children can take action.
Publication Date: Dec 2000
Publisher: Humanities Education Centre
ISBN: 1873928971
Price: £16.00 Primary and Secondary
Title: Children’ Rights series
Description: A series of five glossy hardback
books that explore children's rights through themes including health,
education
and homes. All five
books explore the impact of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the
Child and through first-hand accounts look at how children's rights are becoming
a reality. Available from Save
the Children
Publication date: Aug 2004
Publisher: Save the Children
Price: £10.99 each book
Title: Food and Farming - local & global
Description: This booklet looks at how food is produced
in the UK and worldwide and questions what is behind our food production.
The booklet is relevant to
many
subject
areas and explores questions such as who grows our food,
what their lives are like and what issues they face. The book develops the
themes further by looking at issues of interdependence in food production,
as well as environmental themes such as water, health and sustainable development.
Publication date: Sept 2004
Publisher: Tide: Birmingham DEC
Price: £8.75
Title: Global Express: Justice in Africa?
Description: A new edition of this rapid response
magazine series for teachers of 8-14 year olds on world events and
global issues in the news. This issue covers the Commission for Africa,
post-colonial Africa, Economics, International bodies, African initiatives
and UK advocacy, as well as teaching activities and recommended resources.
Provides a useful introduction to current issues on Africa and is ideal
to inform activities and events leading into Make Poverty History,
Live 8 and the G8 events.
Publication date: July 2005
Publisher: Manchester Development Education Project (DEP)
Price: £5.00 per copy, available through the Global
Express website or by contacting Jane Angel: 0161 445 2495
Title: Exploring Our World: Investigating Issues of Interdependence
and Social Justice in the 21st Century
Description: This resource covers topics such as
sustainable development, trade, child work, debt and refugees. It
provides students with geographical
knowledge and opportunities to develop their understanding of issues
of inequality and social justice at local and global levels.
Publication Date: Dec 2001
Publisher: One World Centre for Northern Ireland
Price: £22.51 Title: Change the World in 8 Steps
Description: A pack of nine full colour posters designed
to introduce pupils to the eight Millennium Development Goals. For
webpages on this resource from the Cool Planet (Oxfam) site with photos
and activities click
here.
The issues covered
by the posters include:
• Trade, aid and debt
• Education
• Environment
• HIV/AIDS
• Poverty and hunger
• Gender
Publication Date: 01 Apr 2005
Publisher: Oxfam
ISBN: 1870727681
Price: £15.00
Title: Water Numerate: Daily Maths for the Global
Citizen at Year 6 and 7
Description: Designed to support numeracy and daily
maths lessons in years 6 and 7. This text provides three weeks of planned
lessons on data handling and percentages and offers the opportunity
to analyse the positive impacts of a well system on a Nepalese hill
village, by following the life of one girl. Note: currently out of
print.
Publication Date: Dec 2000
Publisher: Water Aid
ISBN: 0951346687
Price: £6.88 Primary Title: Water
Literate
Description: A useful resource for the KS2 Literacy Hour. It includes a range
of non-fiction texts and activities and a set of colour photos. around the themes
of water, development and sustainability in Tanzania. Note: currently out of
print.
Publication Date: 1999
Publisher: Water Aid
ISBN: 0951346652
Title: Feeling Good about Far away Friends: Daily Life of a Maasai
Family in Kenya
Description: This resource offers pupils an
opportunity to explore what they feel about their own localities
and themselves, and to explore
a distant locality. The colour photographs provide points of classroom
discussion, and there are also opportunities for map work. The pack
includes background information for the teacher on Maasai culture
and on the individuals featured in the photographs.
Publication Date: Dec 1995
Publisher: Leeds DEC
ISBN: 1871268753
Price: £18.89
Title: Global Citizenship: the Handbook for Primary Teaching
Description: This handbook explains the term "global
citizenship" and develops its guiding principles into clear, practical
pointers for use in school. By discussing the issues, ideas, and approaches
in this handbook, users will be able to explore and develop their own understanding
of global citizenship and bring its concepts into all their educational practice,
through every subject area and across the whole school.
Publication Date: Oct 2001
Publisher: Oxfam
ISBN: 1899857478
Price: £25.00 Special Needs
Title: A Special Kind of Strength
Description: This resource is designed to enable
young adults, with moderate and severe learning difficulties, to
participate in and
enjoy a range of activities which explore the links between the
lives of two women in East Africa, and the students' own lives and
experiences.
The teacher's handbook provides
a range of creative and participatory activities with photocopiable
worksheets and maps. The accompanying video is divided into ten
self-contained stories focusing on different daily tasks such as
fetching water,
growing, preparing and eating food, going to market and feeding
animals. An interactive multimedia CD-ROM is also available (stock
number
168939), which focuses on life in Sanawari, a locality in Tanzania,
and contains 14 sequenced stories. The CD-ROM is an ACORN disc
- a PC version is in development. Available from Leeds DEC
Publication Date: Dec 1995
Publisher: Leeds DEC
ISBN:
Price: £27.91
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