Goals of Global Education Project

Global Education is an initiative of the Australian Government’s Overseas Aid program. The goal of the NSW Global Education Project is to raise awareness and understanding of development issues amongst secondary teachers and students As well as university students in NSW. Geography in Stages 4, 5 and 6, play a key part in achieving the goals of global education by:

·         developing understandings of social, cultural, economic, technological, political and ecological interdependence on a global scale

·         promoting knowledge and understandings; values and attitudes; skills and processes as well as involvement and action relevant to living responsibly in a multicultural society and an interdependent world

·         providing models of interconnectedness, interdependence and inter-relationship of world cultures in an educational effort to promote cooperation and progress

·         enabling students to become better informed, responsible, global citizens capable of contributing positively and actively to the world surrounding them.

·         enabling students to acquire a global perspective and recognise that others may have different views of the world

·         developing students understanding of their place in the world, so they may overcome parochialism and ethnocentrism and so become better informed adults making wise, just decisions

·         recognising commitment to the common good, both intergenerationally and intragenerationally, if societies and environments are to be sustainable

·         recognising that people fear and attack what they do not understand and so sharing of information is more likely to sustain world peace and lead to international understanding