Future Friendly Schools - Global Citizenship
What makes a Future Friendly School? Through this participatory process, you will help to identify and prioritize the most relevant indicators for certification across our three focus areas of environmental stewardship, student voice, and global citizenship. We appreciate your participation and look forward to your insights! This page is for voting, commenting on, and suggesting new indicators in the area of global citizenship. You can switch to the other certification indicators through the links in the header. If you’re interested in partnership or participating as a founding school in the program, contact us at education@takingitglobal.org!
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imparting ideologies and principles into students, faculty and management that relies on global interests
Education is the manifestation of mankind and hence mending and nurturing of personal and professional aspects of an individual from a young age at school forms a significant criteria. Rather than focusing on national interests schools must induce a self well being among its children to have a broad vision and a global outlook onto contexts such as social development issues, all forms of economy , technology etc. The child must endure practical knowledge encompassing the theoretical study . A sense of being a part of this mother earth must be cultivated in every child and thus the factors that…
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Awareness of United Nations Organizations
The students should be aware of United Nations bodies and their role in shaping the globalized world.
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Co-operation of contrasting communities / geographies
Co-operation of contrasting communities / geographies..
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School & Jail
School & Jail are the only two places on the earth where we don't prefer to go by choice. Rather, we are forced to enroll. Think of this seriously. Look at the innocent faces of children while entering the school and while leaving the school. Difference can't go unnoticed. Why children clap their hands with joy when holiday gets announced. What are those things for which children refuse to go to school? Why they sometimes play tricks to bunk off the school? Why children impatiently wait for Sunday to come? How many children will prefer to go to school themselves…
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Building clean and safe pit toilets in primary schools to prevent diarrheal diseases due to poor hygiene and sanitation practices in kids
Over 1800 children a day die from diarrheal disease due to lack of safe water, sanitation and basic hygiene. Over 2.5 billion people all over the world don’t have access to clean and safe toilets. As a result of this many illness which is a direct cause of poor sanitation arise affecting millions of people especially children of school going age. Many deaths related from severe diarrhea today kills a child in every 20 seconds making it the second most deathly disease in developing countries claiming lives more that HIV/AIDs, malaria and measles combined. The Making Toilets **** Again Project…
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Cultural diversity on campus, student societies,
As an undergrad student in the United Kingdom,
I could name a few factors that clearly indicate a more diversified cultural environment. I should firstly emphasise on the political dimension, since it was the laws & regulation policies of this particular state that allowed students from all across the world to study in the United Kingdom, thus broadening their horizons and being able to pursue their dreams. Secondly, it was globalisation itself, since it incentives young folks to travel around and explore new shores. Thirdly, I'd argue that the creation of a public sphere, a forum, where many cultures can…
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adapting and incorporating methods that have proven effective in other countries. Allowing for international debates and sharing experiences
exchanging ideas at a global sphere is an effective way to broaden knowledge and skills as well as to evaluate our programs
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Strong ties to local farms and Community Supported Agriculture
CSA is a growing movement in the U.S. that encourages the investment of communities in local farms as well as local farms in their communities. The basic economic model is such that consumers buy shares at the beginning of the season that meet the budget determined by the farm. In return, the members receive weekly distributions of the seasonal produce as they come available for harvest. This way the farmer can focus on growing food of the highest quality by sustainable means in the interest of building community, rather than planting monocultures of cash crops for profit, without consideration of…
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Exchanging learning experiences while locally engaging and global connecting of education centers to fulfill multidisciplinary activities
Establish a research/training centre to fulfill multidisciplinary outreach activities with the participation of both the academic staff and students would enable to explore the curriculum and class work in more practical manner rather than theoretical perspective.This will establish linkages between universities/colleges and industry and will orient students to experience a diverse study and research environment. As soon as they complete the course works they are capable of facing to the job hunting and building their own lives more quicker than the normal student.
Hasitha Priyashantha
Univeristy of Peradeniya
Sri Lanka6 votes -
Membership in The Global Citizen Initiative http://www.theglobalcitizensinitiative.org/
Membership in The Global Citizen Initiative http://www.theglobalcitizensinitiative.org/
Become an ABC4All Mentor and receive a copy of the book, Global Citizenship:
A Path to Building Identity And Community in a Globalized World by Ron Israel, FREE! ABC4All Global Mentoring TEAM Project http://projects.tigweb.org/abc4allglobalteam3 votes -
Hiv/Aids Should be included into all schools curriculum especially In Secondary schools among teens.most private schools do not educate and.
Hiv /Aids should be included into all schools curriculum especially In Secondary schools among teens.most private schools do not educate and enlighten der teens in secondary school on these issues because they shy away from it and don't tend to see its importance as parents don't subscribe to their kids being taught on ****** reproductive health issues and Hiv/Aids. Reproductive health care and Hiv/Aids and life building skills should be made a compulsory subject in all schools both primary and secondary
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Students need to be critically aware of the impact that their life choices have on people everywhere in the world, including the local
The impact of everything we use/ purchase has an effect on both the environment and other people. What were the conditions that it was made under? Are they fair? If not, what are you supporting? Does it match your values, if not why do you have it? What is the environmental impact (water/carbon footprint) ? do you drive? or fly? what is your carbon footprint? learn to reduce it. what is your human footprint? It is crucial that we empower ourselves and understand the personal responsibility that we all have. Think and act Holistically.
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Include children in the design of their own schools, curriculum, and education.
Respect children's voice, opinions, ideas and perspectives. Acknowledge and respect their capacity to design their own education and learning environments.
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Schools and other education institutions should be guided by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most comprehensive and widely accepted global agreement on how children should be protected, provided to, and included within broader society. Any institution that has influence on the lives of children should be guided by a framework that respects and includes children's perspectives, opinions and ideas. It all begins with respecting human rights.
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Motivating teachers to give off their best to students
Teachers across the globe should be motivated as doctors and other professions. They must be given the necessary tools needed, with this even if posted to rural areas, they will feel happy to go there and teach.
Another aspect too is in-service training for teachers; They need to be trained on the job as new students with different perspectives enter in school year after year with it attendant wide range of sophistication and technology. If teachers are not abreast with changes in technology, they will always be undermined.
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flexible contextualized curricula
When we have flexibility on curricula from our context which will have global nonrecognition then students will have a charm for the program we offer.
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Gender Equality
The recent **** and utter insensitivity plus lack of empathy to the young woman's pain and humiliation in Delhi by the rapists (who after raping her inserted an iron rod into her which killed her) has prompted me to ask if this is worth teaching. Then there is female foeticide and dowry deaths and many women not being able to choose if they want to work outside the home or not. Don't know what exactly could be taught though.- perhaps they could be topics of debate between students.
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Group Discussions
A trained teacher’s input and guidance would be essential. The aim would be to develop both - speaking and listening skills. The teachers would have to ensure there is no squabbling, digging in, scoring points off each other.
Group discussions have huge benefits. For example they teach us to
gather relevant information present the information well, in the time allotted. focus on what others are saying understand other points of view and realise there are many answers (not just mine!) to a question.1 vote
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