Projects and Partnerships

WOSDEC has extensive experience of leading and partnering with other organisations on a wide range of projects which promote Global Citizenship in schools and communities.

Current Projects

Global Citizenship in Scotland (GCiS)

WOSDEC is funded by the Scottish Government to coordinate and deliver Global Citizenship in Scotland (GCiS), a national project that supports educators to embed Global Citizenship across teaching and learning, as a key strand of Learning for Sustainability.

Social Justice, Rights and Equality

WOSDEC has co-designed an animation to support educators to embed Social Justice, Rights and Equalities (SJRE) across Early learning Centres, schools and communities. Designed in collaboration with Hannah Moitt,  a multimedia graphic designer, the animations can be accessed on Education Scotland’s SJRE website.

Education Institute of Scotland (EIS)

For many years WOSDEC have worked with the EIS to deliver Professional Learning for their members.  This has included Rights, Anti-Racism, Learning for Sustainability and Peace Education. 

Anti-Racist Education Resource www.antiracisted.scot

WOSDEC, along with Scotdec, has developed an online Anti-Racist Education resource as part of the Health and Wellbeing curriculum. The resource, funded through the Scottish Government’s Anti Racism in Education Programme (AREP), supports educators across all levels of Curriculum for Excellence to build an anti-racist curriculum.

Global Storylines and Theatre of the Oppressed

WOSDEC are partners with Active Inquiry (hyperlink) on this Paul Hamlyn funded project.  Working with schools across 4 different local authorities, we are exploring how we can (a) write new stories based on what social justice issues are important to learners and their local communities, and (b) enhance our existing Global Storyline work (hyperlink) using Theatre of the Oppressed pedagogical approaches.

Quakers

WOSDEC and the Quakers have a longstanding partnership where we co-design and co-deliver Peace Education, as well as advocating for increased Peace Education within the Curriculum.

Also…

Douglas Academy Anti Racism and Pupil Voice whole school project

Global Citizenship in the Community

Anti-Racism network

Past Projects

  • We partnered with GCFN in 2022 to build their staff confidence and skills in delivering a programme of teaching across Glasgow.

  • We have worked with Oxfam Scotland in a variety of contexts. Oxfam Scotland funded some of our partnership work and resources, such as our Gender Justice resource, the Climate Justice resource and recent updates to our Mandela resource.

  • We partnered with TGP, RSC, Scotdec and Eco-Active Learning to produce a Climate Justice and Human Rights resource for schools for use before, during, and beyond COP26.

  • WOSDEC and SFTF have worked together for several years to provide training to teachers on exploring Fair Trade in the classroom. We have co-created resources for teachers, including lesson plans for Just Trading Scotland’s 90kg Rice Challenge for Schools.

  • YUVA are a large NGO supporting Global Citizenship Education in communities across Turkey.  WOSDEC worked together with YUVA on a Climate Justice capacity-building project for community organisers in Scotland and Turkey, funded and supported by MiTOST Citizenship in Action.

  • In December 2021, third three year, UK wide programmed concluded. WOSDEC was part of a consortium, along with Learning For Sustainability Scotland, the IDEAS network and Scotland Malawi Partnership to deliver the project outcomes across Scotland. This involved offering one-to-one mentoring and professional learning opportunities, supporting teachers and school to:

    • develop the knowledge, values, skills and confidence in their learners to equip them to participate as active citizens, striving for a sustainable and equitable world.

    • partner with schools both nationally and internationally,  collaborating on the Sustainable Development Goals.

    • Identify opportunities for meaningful, inclusive, real-life learning, making links to Curriculum for Excellence and other educational priorities.

  • WOSDEC partnered with the Education staff at the David Livingston Trust to produce joint Global Citizenship resource material for schools. This included accompanying training for teachers.

  • We worked in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation to create this educational resource which uses the context of apartheid era South Africa to celebrate the life of Nelson Mandela, his links to Scotland and the activism of the Scottish anti-apartheid movement. It gives teachers tools to explore examples of modern day racism with learners, and strategies to challenge this. We have trained teachers across the West of Scotland on use of the resource.