Global School

The goal of the Global School is to support the teaching of global education in schools.

Global education in the Global School means looking at educational issues through the perspective of global equality and mutual responsibility. Global education contains themes such as human rights, peace education, equality, intercultural issues, education for sustainable development, media education and environmental education.

Teachers can receive materials, ideas for lessons, and lesson plans from the coordinator of the Global School, as well as training and courses regarding the themes of global education. The library of the Global School has a variety of material from different non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as well as purchased materials.

NEWS AND TRAININGS

Celebrate Children's Rights in 2009!

Convention on the Rights of the Child was signed twenty years ago 20th November 1989. Schools and homes are encouraged to celebrate this and study children's rights more carefully. The Global School offers a wide range of materials on children's rights in Finnish, but in our library you can also find materials in English. The material in the Global School library is available for loan and it can be loaned free of charge through the teaching material centre (Address: Oulun Opetusvirasto, Taka-Lyötyn katu 4, 4th floor). For example the following book might be interesting:

Exploring Children's Rights - Nine short projects for primary level

Critical Documentary Making Workshops

Teachers in Oulu region are invited to this course taking place in autumn 2009 - please reserve your place in the training calendar of the city of Oulu: koulutuskalenteri

Dates: Wed 28.10., Wed 11.11., Wed 2.12. at 13-16

Place: Oulun kaupungin opetustoimi, Taka-Lyötyn katu 4, 4.krs

Primary and secondary school teachers in special needs or mainstream education are invited to take part in a PhD action research project, exploring critical documentary making as a classroom activity.

The critical documentary making activities are designed to fit within the scope of curricula and to use equipment and software frequently available in schools. In a typical classroom documentary making project pupils research subject based or cross-curricular themes and collaboratively make documentaries for a peer audience. In addition to deepening their knowledge of the documentary subjects, and developing social and technological skills, pupils are encouraged to engage in active citizenship. Critical documentary making is a pedagogically rich classroom activity which many pupils in special education and mainstream schools find extremely motivating.

Through a hands-on approach, workshop participants will learn how to use the basic tools for making documentaries, in a variety of formats, from conception to edited film: participants do not need a background in ICT, Media Studies, or Film-making.

Teachers taking part in the action research will be required to undertake at least one critical documentary making project with their own pupils by 30 April 2010 and to keep and submit a diary (preferably in English) about their and their pupils' critical documentary making experiences. Teachers will be invited to discuss their experiences during the spring semester 2010, and the researcher needs two teachers to take part in a longitudinal follow-up study about their and their pupils' critical documentary making activities.

Please note the working language for the in-service workshops is English.

For further information please contact the researcher, Ros Cooper, roscooper@mail.com