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WFS Guide to School Innovation
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In order to facilitate integration of sustainability education in your school, we are compiling the WFS Guide to School Innovation.
It features 7 key Experience Fields for nurturing the characteristic features and competences of a "Fair Global Citizen" and projects for their easy installation. The presented projects are extremely useful, because they can be intiated by teachers OR students without changing the conventional curriculum!
The included WFS Lesson Pack offers a variety of innovative lesson plans that involve effective youth projecteering and relate to the lifelong-learning resources of the WFS Online Learning environment.
Part 1: Seven School-based Experience Fields for Fair Global Citizenship
Part 2: WFS Lesson Pack
Part 3: Best Practice Curricula
Part 4: Fair Global Citizen Handbook
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Global Sustainabiliy Education GSE is a lifelong process of self-guided learning in interaction with a worldwide community of sustainability-oriented youth and competence leaders.
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| Part 1: Seven School-based Experience Fields for Fair Global Citizenship |
1. A permanent FORUM FOR SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES in your school
2. A permanent POSITIVE NEWS-BOARD on best practices from around the world
3. Treasure Mapping: CHARTING LOCAL SUSTAINABILITY projects, structures and organisations and people.
4. Access to resources for SELF-GUIDED LIFELONG LEARNING beyond the school-fence
5. Effective LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTEERING in cooperation with civil society organisations
6. Effective INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTEERING
7. Growing up in a GLOBAL FAMILY environment
8. A live experience of ETHICAL VALUES
1. A permanent FORUM FOR SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES in your school:
Install a permament sustainability forum in your school. The worldwide outstanding International School Peace Gardens programme (ISPG) of IHTEC combines conflict resolution and sustainability education. The curriculum includes the entire school, parents, the community and local sustainability related youth and civil society organisations. As a consequence, the ISPG becomes a communal place of peace, reflection, celebration and sustainability co-projecteering. The ISPG curriculum unfolds a variety of interdisciplinary activities that involve and empowering students for effective ecological conservation and restoration of their regional environment, including mountain, arctic, marine environments and more.
[ISPG Programme, see below]
2. A permanent POSITIVE NEWS-BOARD on best practices from around the world:
Put up a Positive News-Board featuring a monthly selection of outstanding international news on project successes, youth leaders and pacemaking organisations. Activities can be combined with the Positive News lesson plan. Students can co-edit their own Positive News edition drawing on global resources of Positive News online magazine and their Local Agenda21 office and civil society organisations. This way, students are connected to the local networks for sustainability innovation. Also, they learn about a new culture of meaningful communication and reporting.
[the WFS Positive News Online Magazine]
3. Treasure Mapping: CHARTING LOCAL SUSTAINABILITY projects, structures and organisations and people.
Closely related to Positive News. Pupils research positive actors, places, spaces, institutions and fun things that enrich their home town and region, and collect them by categories on a city map. This fun research and networking project visualises the many unseen and unperceived people, institutions and places that give quality to local life. Pupils meet and develop more appreciation for the committed people of their hometown. The map serves as a tool for raising public awareness and networking. It can be published in schools, townhall, NGO offices and local newspapers. A small group can host it for long term development and regular updates.
4. Access to resources for SELF-GUIDED LIFELONG LEARNING beyond the school-fence:
Introduce students to free, world-leading information resources on sustainability issues, online networks of youth leadership communities and participatory netizenship environments.
[the WFS LearnScapes, in particular the Youth Camp]
5. Effective LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTEERING in cooperation with civil society organisations:
Involve students in self-determined local projecteering in interdisciplinary cooperation with local administration and civil society organisations.
[ISPG curricula and others, see below]
6. Effective INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTEERING:
Involve your students in effective support of their international peers. In international communication, students detect basic needs of a partner group that is subject to economically poor living-conditions. Students co-develop projects for supporting their peers. Children develop an appropriate understanding of basic needs, affluence and lifestyle. They learn about meaningful development cooperation and effective fundraising, establish international ties for evolving inter-communal activities.
7. Growing up in a GLOBAL FAMILY environment:
Set up a permanent, ever-evolving Living Exhibition "The World is my Family" in your school-building for nurturing a feeling of omnicultural understanding and appreciation. Xenophobia can be overcome by daily exposure to a peaceful, interesting, inspiring, exciting and - finally - "normal" multicultural world. This multimedia exhibition can easily be co-developed with partner schools and youth groups from around the world and the local multiethnic community. It develops an understanding for life abroad, deconstructs stereotypes, involves youth in international and intercultural youth journalism and establishes inter-communal ties between the partner schools for potential exchange, fair travel community visits and development cooperation.
[The World is my Family Exhibition]
8. A live experience of ETHICAL VALUES:
Introduce students to a holistic experience of ethical values with the world leading program Living Values (supported by UNESCO).
[Living Values Programme]
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Part 2: WFS LESSON PACK
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We are preparing a WFS Lesson-Pack with innovative activities that guide children and youth towards effective collaboration with local and international institutes, civil society organisations and youth leadership communities. Every lesson plan involves group experience, leads to concrete results and builds up competence for shaping the future.
Exploration of the complex themes of Sustainability, Futures, Solutions and Cultures will be facilitated by the use of illustrated online LearnScapes. They will include a lot of tidal wave knowledge, participatory elements and tools for immediate application in private life.
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> State of the World lesson plan
> Positive News lesson plan
> Youth Leadership lesson plan
> Positive Futures Exposition lesson plan
> The World is my Family lesson plan
> Future Scenario lesson plan
> Culture Sculpture lesson plan
> World House lesson plan
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| Part 3: BEST PRACTICE PROJECTS |
International School Peace Gardens
A holistic curriculum for installing a permanent forum for sustainability issues and conflict resolution in your school
The worldwide outstanding International School Peace Gardens programme (ISPG) of IHTEC combines conflict resolution and sustainability education. The curriculum includes the entire school, parents, the community and local sustainability related youth and civil society organisations. As a consequence, the ISPG becomes a communal place of peace, reflection, celebration and sustainability co-projecteering. The ISPG curriculum unfolds a variety of outstanding interdisciplinary activities that involve and empower students for effective ecological conservation and restoration of their regional environment:
Creature Corridors - Migrating Species Program, Watershed Peace Pathways, Marine Peace Parks, Mountains / Space, Arctic Acrobats, Sunrays - Peace in the Middle East, Butterflies Breath - Rainforest Program
This program is coordinated by Julia Morton-Marr, Founder and President of IHTEC. She chairs the Peace and Sustainability Education Working Group (Science for Peace) and the Sustainability Education Sessions of the Interdisciplinary Conference on the Evolution of World Order EWOC (Council on Global Issues).
Website: http://www.ihtec.org
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| Part 4: FAIR GLOBAL CITIZEN HANDBOOK |
upcoming...
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For information, cooperation and support:
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e-mail: office@worldfutureschool.org
c/o Positive Nett-Works Association
House of Democracy and Human Rights
Greifswalder Str.4, 10405 Berlin, Germany
phone: 0049 (0) 30 - 69 53 64 69
mobile: 0049 (0) 176 - 2205 9374
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