Whole School Development and the Global Dimension: Capturing models of practice across the UK

In a changing educational context in which the 'Global Dimension' is being more clearly defined in school curricula across the UK, one practitioner observed,

‘Suddenly development education isn’t on the fringe – it is mainstream’

This report focuses on embedding the global dimension across a whole-school community. It outlines the many elements, identified by development education practitioners, that contribute to this process. Examples of current practice are provided, together with detailed information about relevant awards, benchmarking and self-assessment frameworks. Discussions at two ‘Global Schools’ conferences in 2007 pinpointed areas in which future support to schools may be strengthened. We hope that ‘Whole-School Development and the Global Dimension’ will provide a useful resource to the development education network in taking forward this support, and to schools through identifying opportunities for strengthening global dimensions in subject curricula and the whole-school environment.

Author

Michila Critchley and Rob Unwin

ISBN

978189763

Publisher

DECSY

Publishing Date

29 February 2008

Suitable for

Education practitioners

Website

http://www.decsy.org.uk/pubdetails.asp?id=20