DEA - promoting education for a sustainable and just world

quote I am proud that the Government is supporting DEA in its work to raise standards in the teaching of global issues quote

Prime Minister Gordon Brown

DEA is an education charity that promotes global learning. We work to ensure that people in the UK learn about global issues such as poverty and climate change and develop an open-minded, global outlook.

Our present focus is on schools and youth work. We work to change what people learn and how they learn, through influencing policy and improving educators' practice. Our national network of member organisations and supporters share our conviction that the role of education today is crucial in shaping a better tomorrow.

 

DEA‘s members include all the large development NGOs as well as a wide network of Development Education Centres and education NGOs based locally around the UK.

 

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Featured news

New publication: Exploring Together

New DEA pack exploring the global dimension to secondary subjects.

Exploring together: a global dimension to the secondary curriculum provides starting points for exploring what the global dimension means for particular subjects and can also be used for cross-curriculum planning. One copy of the Exploring together pack is being sent to all secondary schools in England from 21 May 2009. You can download additional copies as a PDF file.

There are many local organisations, including Development Education Centres, that can support schools with work on the global dimension. Find out more about our network.

 

News

29/06/2009
July deadline to help put global learning in primary schools

DEA's draft response to the Primary Curriculum Review suggests ways in which global learning could be strengthened in the primary curriculum. You can help by responding to QCA as soon as possible before the deadline of 24 July.

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29/06/2009
Vacancy: Policy and Research Manager

£28,000 - £30,000
Education has a crucial role to play in promoting a more just and sustainable world. Help us develop the policy environment and research base for global learning.
Closes: 5pm 21 July. 

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Blog

02/07/2009 Hetan's blog - could a leaner curriculum offer room for global learning

I went to see Michael Gove, the Conservative Shadow Minister for Children, Schools and Families, speak at the RSA this week on the topic 'What is Education For?' He argued that schools have lost their primary purpose in promoting learning and have been saddled with other agendas from healthy eating to community cohesion.

 

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