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Global Partnerships

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A school partnership can be an on-going relationship between two or more schools in different parts of the world, established to deliver mutually agreed learning objectives. An effective long-term partnership of this kind can provide innumerable benefits.  
 

Benefits of Partnerships

 
Global issues have become part of young people's lives in a way they never have been before. A recent Mori poll found that eighty per cent of middle and secondary school pupils believe it is important to learn about global issues at school. Benefits include:
  • professional development for teachers
  • added value to the ethos of the participating schools improvement in performance across the board
  • enhanced content of classroom teaching across the curriculum
  • pupils acquiring new skills, attitudes and experiences through direct contact with peers in other countries.
 

Teaching about global issues enables young people to:

The themes below are which many young people can identify personally. A partnership with a school or schools in another country can enable them to integrate such themes into the learning experience and can offer a powerful, effective and enjoyable framework within which these issues can be addressed.
  • appreciate similarities between people around the world
  • examine their values and attitudes
  • understand interdependence
  • develop the skills to combat prejudice, xenophobia and discrimination
  • develop a better understanding of the world they live in
  • play an active role as global citizens
  • encourage understanding and friendship between them.
Partnership activities do not operate in isolation from the other work of the school; indeed the approach that we advocate ensures that the partnership is fully embedded within the curriculum and wider aims of the school, so that its contribution can be delivered in a strategic and co-ordinated way.

In their various ways, the curricula across the UK present schools with a number of new challenges in relation to the delivery of citizenship, including a global dimension. School partnerships offer a coherent and strategic way of addressing issues of interest to young people, together with opportunities for direct participation in collaborative projects and collective decision-making.
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