Our Global Future

How can education meet the challenge of change?

Questioning Education: A discussion paper forms the basis for this programme of discussion and debate. It draws on groundbreaking Ipsos MORI research into Young People’s Experience of Global Learning.

Questioning Education aims to provoke and contribute to a debate on how education policy can move forward to better prepare young people for their global future. DEA are actively seeking policy ideas, contributions and submissions to this debate. The process aims to uncover practical and imaginative proposals that will help embed global learning in the English education system.

Please join the debate:

  • Email your responses to Questioning Education and the key questions below.

  • Attend one of the series of consultation and discussion events which DEA will be organising around the country. Details will be posted here.

  • Organise your own discussion event. For information and advice on this, please contact Helen Young, email: helen.young@dea.org.uk.

  • Submit a DEA Thinkpiece that contributes to the debate. See www.dea.org.uk/thinkpieces.

Key Questions


Comments are welcome on all aspects of Questioning Education. The following questions, from p5, have been designed to act as a starting point for discussions:

  1. What enables global learning to be embedded in everything schools do? What is different about schools where this is already happening to those where it is not?

  2. What lessons can be learnt from the implementation of Citizenship around the challenges of bringing about a cultural shift in the education system?

  3. How can political will for global learning be translated into reality in schools?

  4. What are the main support needs of teachers and school leaders around global learning? How might these be addressed?

  5. What should agencies, such as TDA, do to support teachers to move from being deliverers of a set curriculum to being creative developers of a curriculum?

  6. How might DCSF funding better support creative partnerships between local and national NGOs and schools?

  7. What would ensure that upcoming changes, for example, the primary curriculum and the 14-19 diplomas, include global learning?

  8. What is the role of local authorities in taking global learning forward?