Think Global - promoting education for a sustainable and just world

Global Dimension

quote The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. quote

Albert Einstein

 
This short video outlines our work

Think Global is a national education charity, and the hub of a community of schools, NGOs and businesses which care about global learning and development. Our goal is to help create a more just and sustainable world, through the power of global learning.

 

The world today is neither just nor sustainable. Poverty and hunger, unequal distribution of wealth and opportunity, environmental degradation and diminishing resources are some of the challenges that today’s young people will inherit. These problems are huge – but they are surmountable. At Think Global we believe in the ingenuity and basic humanity of people to solve these problems. Our members include 10,000 teachers and school leaders, and 140 organisations including international and national non-governmental organisations, universities, faith groups and unions, all of whom believe it is possible to create a world which is both just and sustainable. This belief drives the Think Global community.

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We work to equip people with the knowledge and skills they need to make better decisions for a just and sustainable world. We support them to learn more about the challenges we all face.  Better understanding leads to better decisions. We call the development of this deeper understanding, the acquisition of ‘global capabilities’, of which there are three:

  • Global understanding: acquiring knowledge about the world
  • Global open-mindedness: developing insight into global relationships
  • Global resourcefulness: the ability to think critically and to imagine alternative futures

We believe that, in the long run, it is the development of these capabilities that will play the biggest role in creating a just and sustainable world.

Featured news

Try free teacher CPD taster material

Think Global is sharing taster content from an e-learning module 'International Development and Poverty'.

You can download content from the module, which forms part of our top-rated online CPD course, ‘Developing a global learning school’ run by our trainers who are teachers specialised in global learning.

The modules run over six weeks for an hour each Tuesday after school.

The taster material can be downloaded from our e-learning and CPD pages: http://think-global.org.uk/pages/11062

These courses are available to all schools. If your school has registered for the Global Learning Programme for England (GLP-E) and has completed its Whole School Audit you can use GLP e-credits to fund the £200 cost of the courses. 

To find out more about the GLP, visit the GLP website.

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News

05/12/2014 Think Global calls on Ofsted to recognise 'the global' in its education inspection framework

In our response to Ofsted's consultation on the framework for inspection of education institutions, we have called on the inspection body to explicitly recognise the importance of preparing young people for life and work in a globalised world.

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23/11/2014 Jane Davidson speaks up for importance of global learning

Former Wales minister and current Director of INSPIRE at the University of Wales Trinity St David delivers a strong endorsement of global learning at the national conference of Development Education Centres.

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07/11/2014 PISA education surveys and global competences

In 2018, for the first time, the OCED ‘PISA’ international comparisons of students will measure ‘global competences’.  Watch the video of Think Global's lunchtime talk on 6th November, Assessing students’ skills – the relevance for global learning by Bethan Burge, Research Director, Centre for International Comparisons, National Foundation for Educational Research.

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22/10/2014 UK Public Attitudes to Development: Building New Responses

Bond and Think Global are offering 24 NGO staff  the opportunity to participate in a part-time course over three months (January – March, 2015) to explore recent research into UK public attitudes to development.

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