Educating for Global Social Justice

Background to the project

This EU-funded project is now in it's second year. We are working with partner schools in Bulgaria, Estonia, Slovenia, Latvia, and Portugal, to raise awareness about the Millenium Development Goals and Poverty Reduction. We are inviting secondary schools to join us in this inspiring project which supports cross-curricular themes, as well as mainstream curriculum in all subject areas.

The aim of the project is to support teachers with training and resources to become more informed about the real issues that underpin global poverty so that they feel confident and inspired to incorporate global social justice issues into their lessons.

The hope is that by the end of the project in June 2012, young people in the Education for Social Justice School's will have greater understanding of the causes of global poverty and will have become inspired to take action to raise awareness in the wider community.

Currently 11 UK schools are involved, with a similar number from each of our partner countries. Resources, lessons, newsletters and student actions are available on the project learning platform/moodle to schools who join us. A conference is being held in Slovenia in April 2012 to which some students and teachers will be invited to share their experiences.

To find out more please ring Lesley at Leeds DEC on 0113 380 5659, or e-mail lesley@leedsdec.org.uk.