Start the Change and Global Issues – Global Subjects

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Global citizenship education provides a wealth of real-life contexts for learning all subjects. Start the Change focussed on global inequalities, migration, and the SDGs. Over 400 schools and nonformal educational centres used the project’s manual and the guide Teach the Change! Eight Steps to be a Global Teacher. With the step-by-step guide, Start the Change helped teachers and educators to integrate SDGs and global citizenship education into their didactics. Global Issues – Global Subjects prompted teachers and schools to integrate global issues across all subjects. For example, climate change, gender equality, and migrations can be learnt during math lessons. Issues connected with plastic pollution, gender, and health can be explored in a series of science classes. Or teaching modern languages with a global citizenship approach can open pupils’ minds to cultures and social issues. Global Citizenship Education encourages students to understand other ways of thinking and different perspectives of the world.

Teachers involved in Global Issues – Global Subjects across Europe reported how the training courses and toolkits challenged their implicit bias, their language, as well as the way they engage with students.

“I will pay attention to the gendered language I use in the classroom to ensure the students do not copy this mentality.” – Italian teacher

“[I appreciated] the quality of the subject-oriented toolkits and their relevance both to the school context and to the curricula.” – French education coordinator

“[Cross-curricular approaches help] overcome the most common obstacles of incorporating Global Education in the classes: time scarcity, the school council apathy and low interest of other colleagues.” – Italian teacher

“Teachers began to embed Global Citizenship in the classroom and felt more able to do so.” – Scottish education advisor

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