Society for Fair Trade Kristýna Hrubanová

Our Mission We are striving for: - new approach in education - raising awareness about fair trade - one of the alternatives for enforcement of sustainable development in the global South - encourage czech public in adopting responsibility for the consequences of our consumer behavior - ecological and socially responsible approach to production, business and consumption

Basic Information Society for Fair Trade - founded in NGO, voluntary based organization - 20 employees and 100 volunteers - accredited educational institution by Czech Ministry of Education - part of the alliance Czech Against the Poverty, founder member of czech platform Asociation for Fair Trade, member of Czech Forum of Development Cooperation

Our Activities - global development education - campaining for responsible consumption - promoting fair trade - fair trade shops NaZemi

NaZemi - 7 volunteer-based fair trade shops (both food and handicraft goods) - providing credible information about fair trade and responsible consumption - profit is used to secure co-financing of our educational projects

Responsible Consumption = „World in the Shopping Cart“ - awareness raising about global aspects of production, business and consumption - cooperating with other national and international NGO's on projects advocating better working conditions and improvement of social and environmental consequences of production

Our activities campaign for fair working conditions in the toy production

Global Development Education - running interactive workshops for students and seminars for teachers - producing and distributing innovative educational materials - cooperating with schools and youth ecological and educational organizations - taking part in conferences and publishing articles - member of Czech working group of global education

Global Development Education Watoto - a project of development and multicultural education for kindergartens - pilot project in was the first activity of that kind in the Czech Republic - created in cooperation with Irish NGO Trocaire

Global Development Education Global Issues in the ELT Classroom - education project for teachers of English - raising awareness on UN Millenium Development Goals - output: resource book with lesson plans

The World in your Shopping Cart - awareness raising project and education program - set of 7 interactive workshops - aims to enhance awareness about impact of our consumption patterns on people in developping countries Global Development Education

The World into all Subjects - resource book with 34 lesson plans - aims to bring global dimension into the usual school subjects (Geography, Maths, Chemistry...) - goes cross the subjects

Global Development Education PARTicipate – art and global issues - original project from RISC (England) - 6 handbooks for teachers - use the work of artists from all over the world to introduce some global problems - practical ideas how to use activities in art lessons - Artists from China, Benin, Iraq, New Zealand...

La Ngonpo - Czech – Ladakh educational project - methodological materials for teachers – we start piloting this year - aims to build partnership between students and teachers in Ladakh and in Czech Republic

Reading and Writing to Critical Thinking – course with the focus on global issues - long-term course for teachers (80 hours) - based on the RWCT methodology - follows the natural process of learning - starts this year

our context - school reform in 2007 – cross cutting themes including global topics - SFT – acreditted as educational institution - close cooperation with centres for environmental education and centres for further teacher education

our context - we try to reach the faculties of education - active members of NGO platform (GE strategy) - we aim to contribute to the general discussion about education in Czech Republic

questions... questions for discussion in small groups

Could learning about different countries/cultures be considered as global education?

What do you find more important in terms of global education – information (knowledge) or the formation of attitutes, values and critical thinking?

What do you, as teachers, need more – information about global topics or methods how to deal with them?

Does the teacher need to be an expert on global themes to include them into his/her lessons?

Do we, as teachers, need to answer all students´ questions? What should be the role of the teacher in the classroom?

Thank you for attention.