Development Education resources

CAFOD Resources

Catholic Agency for Overseas Development - Various activities and resources, mostly relating to third world. (127)

Edualter

Barcelona based NGO making resources (127)

Centre for Civic Education

US Organisation with some resources, mostly about democracy and how the US works. (127)

Get Global!

Resource designed to stimulate young people into thinking about global issues and getting active. Prepared by various NGOs (127)

Global Learning Online

Sounds very promising, but very few materials. (127)

Salto Youth

SALTO is Support and Advanced Learning and Training Opportunities within the European YOUTH programme. Has many excellent ideas for development education, though not specifically for language teachers (127)

Oxfam Cool Planet

Excellent online resources, designed for Citizenship Education in the UK. Also many purchasable resources. (127)

QCA "Respect for all"

Collection of lessons around the theme of tolerance, for use in British schools. Particularly useful should be those in the sections for citizenship and English (127)

Amnesty International HRE

Well developed resources for human rights education, more aimed at students in countries with poor human rights records. Not many to choose from though. (127)

Global Dimension

Excellent website - basically the blueprint for this one, except the resources are not designed for TEFL. (127)

Global Eye

Wonderful online resources, with new issues every month. (127)

ActionAid UK (Schools)

Select primary or secondary, then downloads, for a modest collection of resources aimed for British schools. (127)

Global Links

'Crazy' website, produced by Action Aid, with a collection of resources based on the Get Global! catalogue. (127)

Human Rights Education Assoc.

Rich manual for human rights education in Eastern and Central Europe, prepared for Amnesty International. Quite hard to get round though. (127)

my Europe

myEUROPE is a Web-based project which aims to help teachers raise their pupils' awareness of what it means to be a young citizen in Europe. (127)

National Curriculum in Action

Rich resource to promote citizenship education in British schools. (127)

Compass

A Manual on Human Rights Education, produced by the Council of Europe. (127)

TEFL resources

Breaking News

Ready-to-use EFL / ESL lesson plans based on current affairs. Graded news articles, listenings and communicative activities. (127)

Newswise

Commercial website with lesson plans based around newspaper articles. You have to subscribe to use it, but there is a selection of free samples. (127)

Bill Chapman's Classroom Tools

Collection of TEFL resources, some of which touch on global issues (127)

BBC World Service

Weekly lessons based on news articles, occasionally related to global issues. Quite light, though. (127)

Teaching English

Co-produced by the BBC and the British Council. Some good lesson plans related to global and social issues. (127)

English-4U

Good general ESL plans, some relevant topics. (127)

Discovery Educational Software

Free printable worksheets, puzzle makers to download, software for foreign languages, EFL and other subjects. (127)

ESL City

Large collection of worksheets designed for TEFL teachers to adapt and use.w (127)

Organisations (NGOs, governments & supra-governmental)

Angelus Silesius House

Non-Formal Civic Education centre in Wroclaw, Poland (where I worked!) (127)

Campaign Against Arms Trade

Excellent information about the arms trade, with specific case studies and general statistics (127)

War on Want

War on Want fights poverty in developing countries in partnership and solidarity with people affected by globalisation. They campaign for workers' rights and against the root causes of global poverty, inequality and injustice. (127)

UNHCR

UN Refugee Agency (127)

Global Education News

An electronic newsletter where global education coordinators or practitioners can share global education news and best practices. Hosted by the Council of Europe (127)

Refugee Council

Main British NGO for Refugees (127)

Amnesty International

World's leading human rights NGO (127)

News, Articles & Information

The Guardian

Major British broadsheet newspaper (with open access to archives) (127)

BBC

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Z-Net

Excellent collection of comment articles. Leftist slant. (127)

Washington Post

Major US newspaper. Often good for a laugh. (127)

CIA World Factbook

May be surprising, but has in-depth and relatively objective information on all the world's states. (127)

World Values Survey

Database of responses to surveys carried out for academic research. Interesting stuff! (127)

Geohive Global Statistics

Always good to have a reliable source of statistics. (127)

Globalisation Guide

Anonymous brief guide to globalisation (127)

Palestine Chronicle

Online news about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (127)

The Independent

Main British centrist newspaper (127)

The Daily Telegraph

British right-wing newspaper (127)

The Times

Britain's most popular quality newspaper. Centre-right. (127)