DEP's Current Projects

Initial Teacher Education and Training is a project to enable and enhance the ability of teachers to address the global dimension in the classroom. It will reshape and develop Initial Teacher Training courses at Manchester Metropolitan University to raise awareness and understanding of global issues amongst staff and teacher trainees.

Global Express is a topical magazine resource for teachers of 8-14 year olds on world events and global issues in the news. Global Express is available from our resource centre. Back editions are available free on the website as pdfs.

The Learning for Sustainable Cities project looks at the concept of sustainable cities and communities and aims to identify opportunities for young people to be involved in positive change.

The Peer Education Project will pilot innovative methods of delivering the Global Dimension, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Social Inclusion (SI) principles. It will work with a number of schools in clusters and use peer school (secondary to secondary) as well as secondary-primary school feeder systems. Also involving community organisations, the clusters will employ whole school and participatory methodologies to deliver the above principles, forge close school-community links and empower pupils with regard to local-global development issues.

The Developing Citizenship project is a national project set up by Oxfam, UNICEF and Save the Children (and funded by the Department for International Development) aiming to develop whole school approaches to teaching global citizenship. As part of this, DEP is working with four schools in Greater Manchester, helping them to create individual projects about Citizenship.

Connecting Communities: The Games We Play This project enables children to explore their cultural communities' similarities and differences through an educational and creative play process. The project will be replicable and adaptable to the needs of schools and the children.