The Varianty Educational Programme of the biggest Czech NGDO People in Need started a one-year pilot project "Our Common World". The overall objective of the project is to integrate issues of DE into the formal education system at Czech schools. The project reacts to Czech educational reform which has allowed schools to change their curriculum and opened space for missing issues, such as global poverty, climate change, human rights or the world economic interdependency.
The target group is Czech high school teachers in various regions who would enhance their students’ global citizenship in future. Teachers are trained in interactive educational methods and global issues through so called "blended learning courses". The combination of e-learning and direct contact with teachers (workshops, trainings, meetings) presents a unique and innovative approach of distant learning in Czech reality. Apart from the teachers' trainings, the project implies an intensive cooperation with the Varianty's partner schools’ directorates in order to build up sufficient background to implement new methods and issues and include them in long-term teaching plans.
At the same time, the project assists to promote active global citizenship in practice and helps teachers and students to take an action and participate in various development campaigns, school projects and join social networks to support human rights or humanitarian activities etc.
For more information on the project, please contact Lenka Sobotová at lenka.sobotova@clovekvtisni.cz or visit http://www.varianty.cz/ and http://www.peopleinneed.cz/.
Photo: Petra Skalická
Information provided by Lenka Sobotová, People in Need
Information provided by Lenka Sobotová, People in Need
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