DEED

Development Education in Dorset

Registered Charity No 1072827

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At any one time, DEED is involved in a number of projects to promote global understanding in schools and the community.  We usually work in partnership with others - education authorities or community groups in Dorset and development organisations in the UK and overseas.  

To Begin at the Beginning - Between April 2002 and March 2005, a 3 year project exploring appropriate global perspectives in Early Years education.  It consists of a programme of creative workshops for children and linked training for early years practitioners and children's families, designed to develop their understanding and awareness of the world and building the foundations of global citizenship.  Funded by the Community Fund. 

For further information, contact Joanna Brightwell at DEED

Thinking Positively, Making a Difference - a programme fo workshops and INSET for schools and community groups using successful examples of people around the world working for their own development and acting as role model 'global citizens'.  Topics include women's and children's rights, food and fair trade.   Funded by the Department for International Development.

Contact Louise Boston-Mammah for more details.

We Grew It Ourselves - a programme supporting schools to design, create and manage productive school gardens.   Workshops and INSET will explore issues such as food, fair trade, water, compost and Healthy Schools.  Funded by the SEED Programme.

  Contact Sarah Heyes for more details.

Contact Louise Boston-Mammah for more details.

DEED on Your Doorstep - an education worker travels to schools with a DEED van full of books, activity packs, readers and audio-visual materials from DEED's resource centre and offering programmes of in-service training in support of the global citizenship curriculum requirements. 

University Links - working with staff and students from Bournemouth University to audit and promote global prspectives in the formal and informal curricula of the University.   Working document 'A Global Vision for Bournemouth University' published June 1999.  Copies free on request.

Global Schools in the New Millennium - working with senior teachers and maths teachers in a group of secondary and middle schools to identify and explore global perspectives to support spiritual, moral, social and cultural development at whole school level and in the maths curriculum.

Now extended 1999-2001 to consider similar issues in Art & Design, Technology and Science.

Sankofa - Ghanaian traditional crafts in a modern world - a travelling exhibition of textiles, carvings, brass, musical instruments, pots, baskets and jewellery complemented by photographs, video and music. The exhibition can be hired for a day or two, a week or longer.

Summing Up the World: Mathematical Activities with a Global Perspective (Key Stages 3 & 4) - a book of 15 classroom ready activities for teachers who want to widen the contextual basis of their students' mathematics but haven't the time to search out their own data.   Includes world issues such as FOOD, WATER, POPULATION, DEBT, WOMEN'S ROLES, WORKING CHILDREN and many more.  All activities are fully photocopiable (for educational use only).

£6.00 + £1.50 p&p

A Story to Tell - Coming to Dorset from Around the World - a new book which tells the stories of 35 people who live in Dorset but have roots in other parts of the world.  A guide for teachers and youth workers will follow early in 2000.

'Every person has a story to tell, but not everyone has someone to hear it.  If we are to have healing . . . we must learn to listen to each other's stories.'

£5.95 + £1.50 p&p

Inside Stories - an information and activity pack about the illicit drug trade, drug traffickers and foreign prisoners in UK prisons.

The pack focuses on the cocaine trade, from the coca growing peasants in the Andes to the South American, West Indian and Nigerian 'mules' imprisoned in the UK.  It features personal stories of drug offenders and links the problems of drug abuse here to issues of development in the producing and trafficking countries.

£7.99 + £1.50 p&p

Frontpage - a newspaper simulation exercise about Ethiopia and Eritrea

Frontpage asks significant questions about the press and its coverage of world events.  It takes the player on a 'journey' to Ethiopia and Eritrea to discover the 'truth' about a story they have been given by an editor.  Back in London, the 'journalists' write and lay out the story for the front page of their newspaper.  This is an excellent exercise for English and Media Studies students as well as adults, teachers and youth groups.

£2.00 + £0.50 p&p

Spice of Life: Grenada - A Caribbean Case Study

This activity pack about the development possibilities of the small Caribbean island of Grenada includes local newspaper articles, black & white photos, and colour slides illustrating everyday life, and an activity book.  Written for Key Stages 3 & 4 and post 16, it explores many cross-curricular issues including culture, environment, economy and heritage.

£19.50 + £2.20 p&p

Dominica - A Small Caribbean Island

Dominica is a volcanic island, its mountainous slopes covered with luxuriant rainforest.  Its people have historical and trading links with Britain and Europe and its culture interweaves Carib, African, French and British threads.  Dominica therefore offers an ideal context for the study of a 'locality in an economically developing country' and scope for cross-curricular themes at Key Stages 2 & 3.

The pack includes a video featuring a Dominican storyteller and poet, a booklet giving many ideas for activities, student resource sheets and information for teachers.

£20.00 + £2.50 p&p