Project Summaries - October 2007 Recipients

Aotearoa Global & Development Education Network

Thinking it Through: Critical Literacy in Global Education in Aotearoa

This project aims to create the foundations for a learning community of educators who will explore the links between critical literacy and global education, and the principles and key competencies in the new curriculum. A series of workshops and learning activities will focus on the relationship between language, worldviews, social practices, power, identity, citizenship, diversity and local/global issues. The methodology used in these workshops will invite participants to engage in dialogue and enquiry about issues they find relevant in their own contexts and will encourage openness and engagement with the diverse perspectives of Aotearoa.

Critical Literacy Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRDp6FNynm0

ChildFund New Zealand

Global Teachers Partnership

An opportunity for teachers from Zambia to come to Aotearoa NZ to partner with local teachers and team teach in schools. NZ students will have the chance to engage directly with the teacher about Zambia and all the social, political and environmental issues facing a developing country affected by poverty. By interacting and discussing these issues with the Zambian teachers, Aotearoa NZ students will be able to put these issues in a real human context - something that learning from a textbook could not compare with.

Christian World Service

Global Encounter for Young People: Making Peace a Reality on Film

In 2008 CWS is hosting three hui for young people in support of the Decade to Overcome Violence. It will involve Aotearoa NZ young people primarily from churches and church schools engaging with representatives from CWS partner groups in Australia, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka and Timor Leste. The hui will involve Maori, local people working on peace and anti-violence issues and other community activists. This aspect of the project aims to extend the experience of the Global Encounter through film in order to make the stories and reflections of those involved available to the wider community.

Community Media Trust

Global Solidarity Education - An International Video Workshop and Community Action

The first part of the project is a live video conference/workshop between teenage students in Aotearoa NZ and young English speaking hacienda or factory workers in the Philippines. The students will learn about the conditions and struggles of those who produce the goods we consume in this country. The second part involves bringing the Filipino film-maker and cultural activist, Ron Papag, to Aotearoa NZ to run workshops in community education and organisation. This will also include practical training in appropriate forms of community film-making. Both parts of the project will be filmed, edited and added to the menu on the DVD package - School for Environmenal and Cultural Action (documentary promoting environmental education) for use in secondary schools and the non-formal education sector.

GirlGuiding New Zealand

Global Education and International Activities Tent, Jamboree J'08

GirlGuiding New Zealand is strengthening its focus on the active involvement of its members in community action, mutual aid, and global educational and support initiatives relating to girls worldwide. Our 2008 National Jamboree will have a prominent Global Education and International Activities Tent, as part of the programme and as a drop-in space. It will include activities/displays by GirlGuiding NZ, and various other organisations, cultural groups, and our international visitors. Our projects in Uganda and Fiji will receive particular emphasis, through the participation of representatives of those Guide Associations who will then stay on for further discussions with national GirlGuiding NZ personnel.

Human Rights Communities in Education Trust

Resource Kit (Secondary)

The Building Human Rights Communities in Education Initiative is a collaborative initiative through which schools and early childhood centres become communities in which human rights and responsibilities are known, promoted and lived. The Resource Kit (Secondary) allows social studies classrooms to contribute to the human rights community and is also one of Aotearoa New Zealand's contributions to the Global Human Rights Framework. The Resource Kit will contain background information, teacher notes, activities for classrooms, cartoons, online posters, where to find other materials and support, and the process by which the resource kit was developed.

UNICEF New Zealand

Child Rights CD

The aim of this project is to produce a CD with supporting resources to teach the topic of child rights at upper primary/intermediate level. The CD will contain power point presentations on the basic rights of children (e.g. Right to a Name and Nationality, Right to Education, etc), images for each right (for teachers to use/adapt to suit their requirements), a historical overview of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF photo-essays which feature an image and information on each article of the convention, child rights case studies (stories), and classroom activities.