Connecting global issues and local experience

If people are to have an effective involvement in social transformation, they need a critical understanding both of the society in which they live and of the alternative visions which people share. Global Education aims at such an understanding.

Participants in the programmes begin to draw the relationships between the different levels and aspects of society based upon the concrete knowledge which they hold. They see the links between, for example, the local, national and international dimensions; or between cultural, political, social, economic and religious questions. Using the information they have to hand, and sources which are readily accessible, they can develop their knowledge through a genuinely problem-posing approach to education.

This one-day introductory programme is aimed at professionals who seek to reflect on issues of current concern.