Information about 2011 awards
These three projects were successful in gaining funding in 2011.
1. Campaign! Make an impact
Click here to read about the aims, actions and outcomes of this completed initiative.
2. Promoting citizenship and values education in primary schools facing challengingocio-economic circumstances
Click here to read about the aims, actions and outcomes of this completed initiative.
3. Citizenship in common - experiences from Cardiff and Birmingham
Countries involved
England
Wales
Leads
Scott Sinclair, Cyfanfyd, ESDGC Schools Network
Cathryn Gathercole, Tide - Global Learning
Becky Link, Tide - Global Learning
Descriptor
Both cities, Cardiff and Birmingham, have initiatives that seek to build a stronger sense of city community by focusing on cohesion, wellbeing, sustainability and responding to climate change. The project will enable teachers from both places to increase their own awareness of the citizenship issues involved and to develop stimulus material and activities that enable their pupils to engage with such issues.
The project will also explore the proposition that cities in all parts of the world are developing policies relating to such citizenship themes and that this could provide the basis for developing learner understanding of the issues in their own place.
Each group will also bring distinctive experience to the project. In Birmingham the Tide ‘Cities project’ has already established a bank of work [see website]. The project will build on this and enable teachers in Cardiff to apply what has been learnt to their own case studies. In Cardiff the Welsh Government
Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship [ESDGC] policy offers a context for innovatory citizenship work. This experience will contribute to teacher awareness in Birmingham. Both groups are working on improving opportunities for learners to have a voice as active citizens.
In Wales, backed by initiative from Estyn [HMI inspection body], we are seeking to develop more effective ways of involving groups of teachers in creativity to improve the quality of citizenship work. The project will contribute to learning about such an approach both through the methods it uses and by accessing
other successful experiences in Birmingham.
England
Wales
Leads
Scott Sinclair, Cyfanfyd, ESDGC Schools Network
Cathryn Gathercole, Tide - Global Learning
Becky Link, Tide - Global Learning
Descriptor
Both cities, Cardiff and Birmingham, have initiatives that seek to build a stronger sense of city community by focusing on cohesion, wellbeing, sustainability and responding to climate change. The project will enable teachers from both places to increase their own awareness of the citizenship issues involved and to develop stimulus material and activities that enable their pupils to engage with such issues.
The project will also explore the proposition that cities in all parts of the world are developing policies relating to such citizenship themes and that this could provide the basis for developing learner understanding of the issues in their own place.
Each group will also bring distinctive experience to the project. In Birmingham the Tide ‘Cities project’ has already established a bank of work [see website]. The project will build on this and enable teachers in Cardiff to apply what has been learnt to their own case studies. In Cardiff the Welsh Government
Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship [ESDGC] policy offers a context for innovatory citizenship work. This experience will contribute to teacher awareness in Birmingham. Both groups are working on improving opportunities for learners to have a voice as active citizens.
In Wales, backed by initiative from Estyn [HMI inspection body], we are seeking to develop more effective ways of involving groups of teachers in creativity to improve the quality of citizenship work. The project will contribute to learning about such an approach both through the methods it uses and by accessing
other successful experiences in Birmingham.
