story, they face various challenges as a community and together they find ways to tackle them. Global Storylines has become a favourite learning tool to develop pupils’ key life competencies. For more information: http://www.nazemi.cz/en/global-education.
Estonia Themes related to Global Education (fair trade, global environmental problems, democracy, developing countries, etc.) are included in various subjects, mainly in civics, history and geography courses. There is an optional course ‘Globalising World’ in upper-secondary school. So far, the projects by NGOs are the main activities of integrating global development issues within formal education. NGO Mondo is the leading organisation in the field of Global Education in Estonia. Mondo founded Mondo Global Education and Training Centre (in Estonian Mondo maailmaharidus- ja koolituskeskus) with a library and filmclub in the same house, and organises events, activities and training about GE issues for different target groups: pupils, teachers, youth, journalists, general public. NGO Mondo has developed teaching materials, including digital study materials, and trained teachers to use them. The internet portal ‘Global School’ (www.maailmakool.ee) gathers Global Education materials that can be used in various courses and subjects.
Finland The Unit for Development Communications is financing a project (tentatively entitled ‘The World in the School’) that offers in-service training and concrete Global Education tools for teachers and other actors in the education sector in order to support the implementation of GE according to the new curricula. The project is co-ordinated by Kepa (the umbrella organisation of Finnish CSOs working with development issues) and several Finnish CSOs active in Global Education will participate in its implementation. The focus is on the competences of a global citizen. The project consists of different types of events, tailor-made study modules, materials to be produced and shared on the internet, consultation and mentoring, support activities for networking and marketing, reaching approximately 1000 teachers during 2016 and 2017. The concluding event at the end of 2017 aims to gather about 100 participants. At the Finnish National Board of Education (FNBE) a major curriculum reform of the entire sector of general education has just been undertaken. New national core curricula have been prepared for basic education, additional classes of basic schools, basic education for adults, as well as for general upper secondary schools. In the Finnish system, the core curricula are the main steering instruments. This type of profound reform is undertaken once every eight to ten years. The implementation of this reform started in August 2016, and
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