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Jehan Al-Azzawi, transition teacher at Liberton High School, outlines her innovative approach using Global Citizenship as a context for navigating transition.

Published in Schools

How do we teach for peace and justice? Ellis Brooks, Peace Education coordinator with the Quakers and Diana Firth, Global Education Advisor with Wosdec, reflect on how we can approach sensitive issues in the classroom.

Published in Features

We need boldness and bravery in discussing the Israel-Palestine conflict in our schools. Jehan Al-Azzawi, transition teacher at Liberton High School, Edinburgh explains.

Published in Features

How did the UK change during the Victorian era? What are the legacies we feel today? Explore this and other questions with this new Global Citizenship planner.

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Published in Activities

Pupils from Oakgrove Primary School will be taking their unique performance of Wangarĩ’s Trees for Peace to the Scottish Parliament on 21 September, International Peace Day. Here Ellis Brooks from the Quakers shares their project.

Published in Schools

Global Goal 16 calls for peace, justice and strong institutions. Charlotte Dwyer, Global Education Advisor at Scotdec, considers strategies for exploring this in the classroom. 

This activity provides a forum for children to discuss ways of dealing with conflict which might occur in the playground or classroom.

Using an extract from Nelson Mandela’s biography Long Walk to Freedom pupils explore the difference between fact, fiction and opinion. Suitable for ages 10 – 14.

This activity focuses on  the Baka people who live in the Congo Basin Rainforest in Cameroon as a case study to explore land and rights.

Wendy Young from Christian Aid provides an insight into creative responses to peace and conflict.

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