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Conference Report published: Global learning is good education

Wednesday January 07 2015

The report from last November's conference, Global Learning is Good Education: How we can work together to inspire schools and teachers to create a sustainable, fairer world, has just been published, and can be downloaded from the Think Global website.

The report, which can be downloaded here, covers conference sessions including:

  • Keynote speech by Jane Davidson, Director of INSPIRE at Trinity St David University;
  • Understanding Islam - Challenging Islamophobia;
  • Learning in a Global Context - The New Primary Curriculum;
  • The role of Teacher Education in promoting Teachers as Agents of Change: opportunities and challenges in a changing landscape;
  • Understanding public attitude research and paradigms of development;
  • Quality or Quantity? Measuring the impact of Global Citizenship on attitudes and core values

Presentations and workshop powerpoints are also available online.

 

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