Local Projects
Centre for Global Education York
The CGE provides a resources centre and support to teachers, student teachers and community groups. It also offers training on all areas of the global dimension.
9x9x9:building global connections
A 3-year project funded by DFID. This project is working with primary
schools that have global school partnerships with Ghana. During the
project pupils will be looking at the millennium goals and considering
issues such as health, education and environmental issues that effect
nine year olds in York and Fanteakwa both now and in the past and
consider what it might be like for 9 year olds in the future. For
more information contact
c.dell@yorksj.ac.uk
Sans Frontières/Sin Fronteras! – French & Spanish
engaging with the wider world
A 3-year language project funded by The Department for International
Development (DFID). The objective of this project is to work with primary
school teachers of Spanish and French to embed the global dimension into
their existing schemes of work. This will enable pupils to develop their
language skills while raising their awareness of the wider world and
promoting a sense of their own role as responsible global citizens. Read
more…
Global Dimensions in the Secondary Curriculum
GE has funding for the next 3 years from DFID to work in partnership
with 6 secondary schools to develop the global dimension and
sustainable development into the secondary curriculum. Read more…
York Young Peoples’ Action Group
The project is funded by DCSF for 2 years from April 2009 with the aim
of encouraging young people’s participation in democracy around
youth choices and opportunities and of creating greater sustainability
for future generations in York. Read
more…
FREE AT LAST
A traveling exhibition about the Slave Trade and includes panels on the
connections between Yorkshire and the slave trade in the Caribbean. The
exhibition is very portable and can be borrowed by schools and community
groups contact cge@yorksj.ac.uk There
are also primary and secondary teaching materials to support the exhibition.
Contact details: cge@yorksj.ac.uk
General telephone: 01904 876839
Website: www.centreforglobaleducation.org
