Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship

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Education for Sustainable Development and Global
Citizenship
Claire Fowler Welsh Assembly Government
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ESDGC

• What is ESDGC?
• Where is it found at present within education?
• Levers for change
• What does it look like?
• Developing partnerships

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What is a sustainable and globally aware citizen?

• Someone who is aware of the wide world and has a
  sense of their own role as a world citizen
• They are outraged by social injustice
• Someone who respects and values diversity
• They actively participate in and contribute to
  the community at a range of levels from local to
  global
• They take responsibility for their actions.
• They have experience of the natural world
  including practical projects and real world
  issues.

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What is ESDGC ?

• the links between society, economy and
  environment and between our own lives and those
  of people throughout the world
• the needs and rights of both present and future
  generations
• the relationships between power, resources and
  human rights
• the local and global implications of everything
  we do and the actions that individuals and
  organisations can take in response to local and
  global issues

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What it is not

• a separate subject
• a series of discrete concepts or topics
• confined to the classroom
• the responsibility of just one teacher in the
  school
• about transmitting a set of answers to pupils.

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Where is it found at present in formal education

• Within policies and guidance from DCELLS and
  Estyn
• Within individual subjects
• In the hearts of many teachers
• Implicitly within the ethos on many schools
• Within many award schemes and initiatives

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Opportunities and Levers along the way 1.
Policy opportunities
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Opportunities and Levers along the way 2. The
ESDGC Action plan

• Deliver ESDGC.
• Through Leadership
• Embed in Teaching and Learning
• By Institutional Management
• With Partnerships
• Within Research

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Opportunities and Levers along the way 3. Estyn
Baseline Survey

• Evidence of good practice
• No clear delivery across all aspects
• Imbalance between ESD and EGC

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Opportunities and Levers along the way 4.
Curriculum 2008

• ensure relevance to the twenty-first century,
• support Government policy including .
• Curriculum Cymraeg,
• Wales, Europe and the World
• equal opportunities,
• education for sustainable development and global
  citizenship,
• world of work and entrepreneurship

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ESDGC themes

• Wealth and PovertyIdentity and CultureChoices
  and Decisions
• Health
• Climate changeConsumption and WasteNatural
  Environment

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Building a common understanding for ESDGC

• Scope the breadth of ESDGC and provide clarity of
  content for teachers
• Provide clarity to NGO/external partners
• Begin to define excellence in this area

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Putting the ESDGC Jigsaw together

• What would the ESDGC picture look like?
• Who do we work with to put it all together?
• What does excellence look like?