University of Oxford Department of Education (OUDE) April 2009 -March 2010

Local4Global funding for work with Oxford Brookes University was transferred by agreement to OUDE for 2009 -2010 as a result of recent changes at Oxford Brookes. RISC is still developing a partnership with Brookes and is currently involved in working with tutors on the process of revalidating a number of their courses, so that Global Citizenship is embedded within them.
Slow progress this year meant the Brookes funding could be better spent on developing RISC's partnership with OUDE, where Global Citizenship work is being embedded within three main curriculum areas.

Work that has taken place

• Two members of RISC's Education team met with Janet Orchard (RE Tutor) to plan a GC training day for her PGCE interns and their school mentors. The day took place at OUDE on 21.05.09; it included newly developed RISC workshops on Challenging Islamophobia, Faith Gardens and Charitable Giving. The feedback was very positive and the day provided useful contacts with RE teachers in local schools.
  Participants said they had learned

The importance of challenging stereotypes and being aware and alert to bias in teaching resources.  

Why global citizenship is important!  Different ways of challenging and approaching the issues. Faith gardens made me think.

The key thing about finding similarities rather than differences.

Lots - I have actually planned lots of activities - some will be happening in my classroom tomorrow and some I will put to our SLT.

I'll be even more careful about the images I use/how I use them.  Will definitely use some of the activities/quotes/ideas.

New things to try.  Lots of ideas I want to attempt.  Emphasising the need to challenge stereotypes and assumptions.

Be armed to work with this systematically and with government policy documents and not just on my soap box

I will
certainly reflect on how my teaching will have influenced pupils in their views.  How I can ensure that in future this is done in a more beneficial way.

I have developed more of an interest in global citizenship due to the connections that were made clear during the day.

Too much to write about!

• RISC's education team worked with Katharine Burn (History Tutor) to plan and deliver part of the PGCE Citizenship Option to interns from seven different curriculum areas across the Department of Education. This was piloted in 2008 with a full session on 22.10.09. Participants said they would take away

Strategies for helping pupils think about the world - similarities, concepts and a critical approach to fundraising in schools

The idea that Global Citizenship should be embedded in every subject of the curriculum

An awareness of encouraging students to realise their role as local/national/global citizens and how they can act on this

The idea of encouraging students to think globally about political issues and develop a confident voice, within and outside the classroom

The event took place on 23.02.2010 when all 80 interns came to RISC. Following an introduction to GC, the scientists and geographers took part in a carousel of 4 workshops focusing on how to embed GC in the secondary Science and Geography curricula. The RE interns explored RISC's artefacts collection and discussed ways of using them to deliver GC within the RE curriculum.

Their evaluation of the day was very positive - comments included

Assessment session was really useful - methods of assessment and how you could use information gathered to inform teaching.

We all make assumptions at a local and a global level and need to be constantly challenged about these even as adults and it is even more important that as teachers we challenge our students within.

Too much to write; feel so inspired and able to tackle global citizenship in my classes / whole school

I now have a better understanding of my own assumptions and ideas for how to address this for myself and students

Already at my school in a science BTEC class I have seen teachers who have concentrated on differences between developed and ‘under developed' countries.  I attended a
lecture at OUDES on global citizenship and thought originally that the points were well made though overstated.  My experience from being in school has proved that I was wrong and that more teachers and pupil need this education.

At a subsequent meeting with the same group of tutors, it was agreed that the programme should be developed next year to include the RE interns in the GC workshops and possibly extend this to include History interns in 2012. New RE and Geography tutors will visit RISC in the autumn for a further planning session.

It will be essential to secure funding if RISC's partnerships with OUDE and Oxford Brookes are to be developed further.

Key Outcomes

• Global Citizenship is embedded in three curriculum areas at OUDE: Science, Geography and RE

• It is now a focus for the Citizenship option course
• Plans are in place to do further work with tutors and replicate the success across other curriculum areas and within the Professional Studies Programme
• Work at OUDE has been disseminated to tutors in other ITE institutions and is being replicated within the PGCE programmes at Reading and with Oxford Brookes.