Devon Development Education
Beverley Naidoo (left) presents the Award to Sue Errington and Ghee Bowman from Devon Development Education
Devon Development Education won the 2006 DEA Global Learning Award for their informal community education work at the Global Centre in Exeter.
Regular meetings and discussions about a variety of global issues are held at the Global Centre in the evenings and during lunch hours. Over the past year participants have looked at large general topics like the Make Poverty History campaign and the Millennium Development Goals, as well as considering specific topics with invited speakers, such as the president of Guild of Students at the Islamic Centre at Exeter University, and local people who worked on rebuilding infrastructure after the Indian Ocean tsunami.
The Centre has a growing reputation as a place where learners can engage with global issues and learn about ways in which they can become actively involved as responsible global citizens. In one participant’s view:
"…I feel the Global Centre is such a valuable resource for community and global action. People come across information from so many different directions and you don’t know how this information is going to affect them. If centres like this are available they can help change and stretch people’s thinking, which is vitally important in a world which is becoming so globalised and so imbalanced. We have to begin thinking like a global community as so many different forces affect us all. Doing this project in this setting really brought this home to me, and I hope it will stay with me…."
More examples of practice:
- Preston College and Lancashire Global Education Centre
Global Perspectives in English literacy programme - Walsall College of Arts & Technology
'Achieving Together' citizenship programme for young people - Amicus-MSF
distance learning course for trade union members - Cornwall College: working with trainee teachers in the post-16 sector
to develop their expertise to disseminate global educational values - Croydon College: Constructive Dialogue on Globalisation Issues
project focussing on the A level Economics, Business Studies and Sociology programme - Pendleton College and Christian Aid
developing a sustainable global learning strategy across the college - Wigan and Leigh College: Dispelling the myths
making links with FE instutions in India and China a springboard for teaching and learning about global interconnectedness.