The world in our trolley! Global education trainings for teachers and students
Within the framework of our project, Schools act globally, Artemisszió Foundation organized global education trainings for teachers and students about the current set-up of agricultural trade and how it maintains and deepens global inequalities between the North and the South.
In today's supermarkets, we encounter products from faraway places. At the same time, we rarely think about the exact origin of these products and the lives of their producers. We are all consumers, yet we do not think about the ways we influence other people's lives through our acts of consumption. With the time of globalization, our lives are characterized by ever-increasing interdependence.
1.2 billion people live in absolute poverty and there are 852 million people suffering from hunger today. 95% of these people live in developing countries, and the majority of them live in rural areas. For the producers of developing countries, it is of outmost importance that they receive a fair price for their products. However, the current set-up of international trade currently favors the multinational companies from developed countries.
Within the framework of our project, Schools act globally, Artemisszió Foundation organized global education trainings for teachers and students about the current set-up of agricultural trade and how it maintains and deepens global inequalities between the North and the South.
  
In our teacher trainings, participants had the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the functioning of agricultural trade and its effect on the lives of people in the global North and South. In addition, they could learn about the methodology of global education and try out interactive games, with which they can incorporate the topic of rural poverty into the school practice.
We collaborated with Bori Simonyi (Protect the Future) and France Mutombo (Africa Foundation), who have held two inspiring lectures on agricultural trade, respectively, Kongo.
In our workshops for students, we have used interactive games to familiarize high school students with the topic at hand. We touched upon the following:
- where does chocolate come from?
- what is it like to be a producer in a developing country?
. who benefits from the trade with bananas?
- what can you do as a consumer to make the world a better and just place?
In the next phase of the project, we will organize further trainings for teachers and students alike in 2008 and 2009. If you are interested, please contact as via email
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This project is funded by the European Union.
Training of trainers in the domain of global education
In March 2007 our colleague, Éva Tessza Udvarhelyi participated in the final seminar of the long-term training course on development education organized by the Polygone network in Madrid. The long-term training has been aimed at improving the skills of trainers working in the field of popular education and global education with a special focus on international development and global responsibility.
The training is part of a 2-year project, which aims at familiarizing trainers from 30 countries with the concepts, theories and methods of development, popular and non-formal education through four seminars and a virtual platform. Participants of the training come from Latin American, African, European and Asian organizations.
The first seminar of the training took place between September 18 and 25, 2005 in Rodízo, Portugal, where the main aim was to delineate similarities and differences between the three educational forms (development, popular and non-formal education) and to establish a theoretical basis for the training.
The second seminar was held between Januar 22 and 29, in Estibaliz, Basque Country, Spain. The second seminar dealt with the values, models, goals and difficulties of development and development education. In addition, participants started working on the so-called First Practice.
Between the second and the third seminar, all participants held a training of development education (First Practice) in their country of origin. For her First Practice, our colleague chose to carry out a workshop focusing on globalization and international social movements within the framework of a Volunteer Club for foreign EVS volunteers staying in Hungary.
Between September 24 and October 1, 2006, the third seminar was organized in Liege, Belgium. The issue at hand was the integration of theory and practice, in addition, the method of systematization in non-formal education was introduced.
  
The fourth seminar will be held between March 18 and 25, 2007 in Madrid, Spain. Before this seminar, all participants will have developed the so-called Second Practice, a concrete training tool for the domain of development education.
The last seminar was concerned with the systematization of the experiences over the two years of the training course and was mostly made up of the workshops held by participants and the evaluation of the training course.
Information on the method of systematization (in Spanish, English and Portuguese): http://www.alforja.or.cr/sistem/virtual.html
This long-term training is organized by Polyglone Network, a development and popular educational network. The network was established in 1996 in order create a platform, where participating organizations could discuss the role of education in fostering social change in the countries of North and South. Currently, organizations from 39 countries participate in the network from Africa, America, Asia and Europe. All participating organization are involved in education for social change.
More information on the network: www.webpolygone.net
More information on the training: www.cidac.pt
The virtual platform of the training: www.lvc.webpolygone.net
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