It gets you thinking. How can we wage it when we are under the same sky. What are we fighting for? Why are we still at war? We are all equal, so were's the love?
Listen and enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYioy5aYixw
Friday 22 February 2013
We are all equal, so were's the love?
I found this amazing song. The singer named Trevor Hall sings about " Where's the love?".
It gets you thinking. How can we wage it when we are under the same sky. What are we fighting for? Why are we still at war? We are all equal, so were's the love?
Listen and enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYioy5aYixw
It gets you thinking. How can we wage it when we are under the same sky. What are we fighting for? Why are we still at war? We are all equal, so were's the love?
Listen and enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYioy5aYixw
Multicultural Education
WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?
I found some really interesting pictures describing multicultural education. It is at least 3 things:
1. An idea or concept,
2. An educational reform movement,
3. And a process
Who am I?
IDENTITY - WHO AM I?
Everything around us shapes who we become, and what we believe about others and about ourselves.
Race, family, sex, gender, age,class, sexual orientation, abilities, religion, social and political contacts, languages. All these factors are facts of who we are.
Who am I? Who are you? "The answer depends in large part on who the world around me says i am" -Tatum, 2003, p.18)
Could you answer this in 60 seconds " I am_________."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-h_fJFQcds - this is a really interesting video, explaining what is identity.
Classroom activities
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Game 1: " Take a step forward". It is really simple game. All the pupils stand in line, then the teacher ask different questions, and if you say yes, you take a step forward. For example: Do you have a brother? I have a brother, and therefore a take a step forward. And if you say no, to the next question, you stay where you are.
Game 2: " Identity Pie Chart". It is a game that represents your identity. The game increase awareness of your own cultural background and how it compares with others. It raise awareness of the importance of self-identity based on affiliations with groups. The game consider the influence of self-identity on individuals' experiences. All the individual in the classroom create a pie chart identifying the importance in your self-concept. You can see a picture of my pie chart.
Tuesday 12 February 2013
ÖRESUNDSKLASSRUMMET
The project Öresundsklassrummet - young people's participation in the sustainable society of the future
The main aims of the project Öresundsklassrummet is to promote everyday integration in the Öresund region and to engage students and teachers in envisioning a new learning process for a sustainable society.
It is to promote everyday integration in the Oresund Region. Around 25 teachers and 300 students from eight elementary schools in Lund, Malmö and Copenhagen are directly involved in the project, increasing the students’ participation in planning their education.
The main components of the project is:
1) a cross-border collaboration between students in the age of 13-15 across the Öresund
2) learning circles, where teachers and researchers together can reflect on teaching and learning processes
3) development of new methods and concepts of education for sustainable development.
The students gained a deepened reality-based knowledge about the themes of green mobility and technology, an insight into productions of goods and environmental consequences. They get a deeper understanding of how decisions are made and implemented in a municipality.
What are the problems and challenges in Öresundsklassrummet?
- language
- communication
- work cultures
Thursday 7 February 2013
9/11 was a wake-up call for global education in the US.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9M8Pd1B3tI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I was watching this 30 minutes youtube clip and it really gave me a lot of thinking.
This videoclip shows the wake-up after the 9/11. 9/11 was a wake-up call - a stark reminder that the USA isn't isolated from the world. If we don't understand the world, it can have serious negative consequences. The american education system is not know by its global focus, but they reflect the national outlook.
From the age of the 10 upwards, pupils learn about the politics and the world trade network. The teachers give the pupils a better awareness of international affairs in the elementary school.
Schools teach world languages alongside art, and 15-year-olds use role play to debate African economic policy.
Global citizenship in the United States, the term was used by U.S President Barack Obama in 2008.
In the increasingly interconnected world, the actions and decisions of ordinary citizen are more likely to affect others across the globe than ever before. This can be extremely beneficial but can also be extremely dangerous. Within the educational system, the concept of Global citizenship in education (GCE) is beginning to supersede movement such as multicultural education, peace education, human rights education and international education.
Many elements seen to spawn global citizenship, but one is noteworthy, the continuos tension that globalization has unleashed between local, national and global forces. While the world is being internationalized, at the same time its also being localized. The world shrinks as the local community
(village, town, city) takes on greater and greater importance.
Then I ask myself..
What if 9/11 never happened? Would USA change their way of looking at global education? What has to be done to truly make the world a better place?
I was watching this 30 minutes youtube clip and it really gave me a lot of thinking.
From the age of the 10 upwards, pupils learn about the politics and the world trade network. The teachers give the pupils a better awareness of international affairs in the elementary school.
Schools teach world languages alongside art, and 15-year-olds use role play to debate African economic policy.
Global citizenship in the United States, the term was used by U.S President Barack Obama in 2008.
In the increasingly interconnected world, the actions and decisions of ordinary citizen are more likely to affect others across the globe than ever before. This can be extremely beneficial but can also be extremely dangerous. Within the educational system, the concept of Global citizenship in education (GCE) is beginning to supersede movement such as multicultural education, peace education, human rights education and international education.
Many elements seen to spawn global citizenship, but one is noteworthy, the continuos tension that globalization has unleashed between local, national and global forces. While the world is being internationalized, at the same time its also being localized. The world shrinks as the local community
(village, town, city) takes on greater and greater importance.
Then I ask myself..
What if 9/11 never happened? Would USA change their way of looking at global education? What has to be done to truly make the world a better place?
Wednesday 6 February 2013
What are the challenges to teachers working with children in a globalized world
WRITE AND PAINT A GROUP POSTER
Language, communication, religion, words
Today’s
students will need extensive knowledge of
the world and the skills and dispositions to engage with people from many cultures
and countries. They will need these to be
responsible citizens and effective participants
in the global marketplace of the 21st century.
Few teachers today are well prepared to educate students for this new global context.
(Teacher Preparation for the Global Age, The Imperative for Change by Longview Foundation)
Tuesday 5 February 2013
What did I expected from the course globalisation and professional change?
FIRST DAY
At first I didn't really have any expectation for the course. I had an idea of what we would be doing, but i did not know that the other students from different countries were attending the course and class.
I thought it would be a course where we talked about different cultures and countries and their pros and cons for globalization and professional change.
Overall I think it was a really good course today, we learned each others culture in a different way and talked about globalization in their country and what was so different from here to there.
We talked about the challenges in their country and how it affected their way of teaching. We had the time for talking to each other and ask questions about their experiences while traveling abroad. We got a bigger view of each countries way of seeing globalization.
At first I didn't really have any expectation for the course. I had an idea of what we would be doing, but i did not know that the other students from different countries were attending the course and class.
I thought it would be a course where we talked about different cultures and countries and their pros and cons for globalization and professional change.
Overall I think it was a really good course today, we learned each others culture in a different way and talked about globalization in their country and what was so different from here to there.
We talked about the challenges in their country and how it affected their way of teaching. We had the time for talking to each other and ask questions about their experiences while traveling abroad. We got a bigger view of each countries way of seeing globalization.
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