DDE Projects and Programmes
Take Mali
Primary and Secondary. This project uses French within the Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 Framework for Languages, to explore whether tourism can lift people out of poverty, in Mali, West Africa.
Food for Thought
Primary school project
One of the longest running and most successful DDE projects involving school linking between Devon primary schools and schools in two districts in Uganda. The project is successfully teaching children about the importance of sustainable food production.
Cultural Champions
The Cultural Champions programme is an innovative programme designed to raise awareness in schools of the diversity of people in the UK.
Model United Nations Assemblies
Secondary and sixth form.
A Model United Nations (UN) Assembly is a simulation or role play of the United Nations. Participants take on the role of delegates from countries who are members of the United Nations and debate serious global issues such as climate change, child soldiers or the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Fairtrade
The Global Centre has been one of the steering group partners involved in working towards achieving Fairtrade status for the County of Devon. Devon first achieved Fairtrade status on 8th October 2008 and this was successfully renewed in March 2010. There is a dedicated Fairtrade Devon website for further details or vitsit the Fairtrade pages on this site for more information.
Early Years
Our Early Years work at Devon Development Education is led by Jane Habermehl, an Early Years teacher and trainer, with over 25 years experience of working with young children.
Global School Partnerships
Global School Partnerships (GSP) is a DfID funded programme which provides advice and guidance, professional development opportunities and grants to help develop school partnerships between schools in the UK and schools in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Coping with Conflict
This curriculum development project was funded by the Department for International Development (DFID). The project offered the opportunity to explore conflict and its impact from the personal to the global and used a Thinking Skills or Philosophy for Children approach. Teachers and pupils were able to develop their knowledge and understanding of the issues through interaction and discussion with peers in Northern Uganda, Hebron and City Academy Bristol.
