Oxfam Education: Global Citizenship

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Global Citizenship
Global citizenship gives learning meaning by being exciting, relevant and grounded in 'real-life' scenarios (Oxfam Education, no date). The Citizenship Foundation (2017), highlights some of the main benefits of teaching global citizenship. They believe it:
• Challenges misinformation and stereotyped views about Southern countries, and allows children to counter ignorance and intolerance.
• Acknowledges that we have power as individuals: each of us can change things, and each of us has choices about how we behave. But this power can be even greater when we work collectively.
• Demonstrates how the world we live in is unfair and unequal, but promotes challenging and changing this.
• Encourages us to recognise our responsibilities towards each other, and learn from each other.
Teaching approaches used to promote global citizenship have a positive impact on learners and can raise standards. Education for global citizenship helps enable young people to develop the core competencies which allow them to actively engage with the world, and help to make it a more just and …show more content…

The development of intercultural competences facilitates relationships and interactions among people from various origins and cultures as well as within heterogeneous groups, all of whom must learn to live together in peace (UNESCO, 2013). This is fundamental to the concept of international education outlined by UNESCO as well as the International Baccalaureate (2012) and Goñi (2004). However the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee raise concerns that the quality and extent of citizenship education is inconsistent throughout the UK and are looking at means of addressing this (Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Education and Skills

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