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Ethical Purchasing Guidance for Schools & Colleges
Published
2013
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PDF
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FREE
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This free guidance document will assist schools and colleges with 'Ethical Purchasing'. It has been developed by the Centre for Global Education York together with the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation.
There is already government guidance available with a strong focus on ‘environmental sustainability’ but very little advice on ‘ethical tr...
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World on your Feet
Published
2012
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Website
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This set of lessons for primary Geography (Year 6 - ages 10-11) uses the methodologies of Philosophy for Children and Community of Enquiry to explore the stories behind trainers.
A wide range of issues are covered, starting from what makes a good trainer, making promotional leaflets, and gradually finding out about the trainers available locally and where they come from.
Key que...
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Making Markets Work
Published
2012
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- PDF
- Website
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Making Markets Work is a hands-on series of activities from Practical Action. It covers 4-5 lessons that will develop understanding of Geography’s big concepts of systems, development and decision-making, within the context of South Asia. It uses the milk market system in Bangladesh as an example.
Thinking skills strategies and aspects of the SEAL curriculum are incorporated to he...
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80:20 Development in an unequal world
Published
2012
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Book
DVD- Website
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£17.50
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This popular development education resource was first produced in the early 1980s. It has now been completely revised and updated for its 6th edition.
Its title reflects the fact that over 80% of the world's population lives in the "Developing World" and less than 20% live in the "Developed World", but consume far more of the world's resources. It asserts that such inequalities did not ...
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- Aid,
- Climate change,
- Conflict,
- Development,
- Economy,
- Environment,
- Equality,
- Gender,
- Globalisation,
- HIV/Aids,
- Human rights,
- Participation,
- Population,
- Poverty,
- Social justice,
- Sustainable development,
- Trade
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Food for Thought
Published
2012
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Film
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Poster- Website
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FREE
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Food for Thought is a set of downloadable resources from Oxfam to help young people aged 8-16 find out about the inequities in the global food system, and explore how small farmers are affected by issues such climate change and global trade. The resources are designed to be used as part of a wider Food for Thought schools project, and there is also a free Food for Thought wallchart available, w...
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Get thinking global
Published
2011
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- PDF
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This activity kit aims to help you begin your global dimension journey, or think about where to go next. It starts with young people’s own lives, giving you ideas on how to encourage students to explore the ways their daily choices and actions...
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Ethical Textiles
Published
2011
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- DVD
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£45.00
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Filmed in Bangladesh, one of the world's largest textile manufacturers, this resource explores the social cost of our cheap textiles. With footage filmed inside a number of Bangladeshi textile factories, it explores the issues of sweatshop labour, poor working conditions, a fair wage and the right to unionise and asks who is responsible? It then compares the social impacts of this mass-scale te...
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Fair's Fair
Published
2011
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- DVD
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Teacher's Pack- Website
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The London 2012 Olympics provides a great opportunity for pupils to learn more about who makes the sportswear and sporting merchandise they buy. This cross-curricular teaching pack for ages 9-14 brings alive the concepts of human rights, equality and fairness by telling stories of people who make these goods in poorer countries, often working with few rights, and for poverty wages.
The ...
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Global Issues 5
Published
2010
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- Book
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£8.95
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This is the fifth in a series of five write-in project organizers, one for each year of the International Baccalaureate's Middle Years Programme (which covers ages 11-16).
It contains six units, each with a different theme drawn from the UN Millennium Development Goals and structured around a unit question. Two or three different subjects are brought together within each unit, to struct...
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- Art and design,
- Design and technology,
- English,
- Geography,
- History,
- Mathematics,
- PE / dance,
- Science
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Global Issues 3
Published
2010
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- Book
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£8.95
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This is the third in a series of five write-in project organizers, one for each year of the International Baccalaureate's Middle Years Programme (which covers ages 11-16).
It contains six units, each with a different theme drawn from the UN Millennium Development Goals and structured around a unit question. Two or three different subjects are brought together within each unit, to struct...
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- Art and design,
- Design and technology,
- Drama,
- English,
- Geography,
- History,
- Mathematics,
- Music,
- PE / dance,
- Science
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