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December 20, 2018

English Resources

Age Group:
Junior Cycle / Senior Cycle / Transition Year
Themes:
  • Languages
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Subjects:
  • English
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English is a great subject to explore Global Citizenship Education. A good start is Toni Pyke’s blog on Using Novels to Explore Development Issues:

We have a WWGS guide for English – Jun Cycle and Senior Cycle based on the suggested texts and other ideas.

 

Here’s a few recommended resources for English:

interdependenceintro

Oxfam guide English_Global_Citizenship_Guide

Exploring the Inconvenient Truth: tl-guide-inconvenient-truth-activities

English & DE 1 pager

English Ubuntu-ebook-2009

APA_Outsiders_web

Some Oxfam resources for English:

Comparing Young Lives English Taster Activity – FINAL

Comparing Young Lives Teachers Overview FINAL

edu-more-or-less-equal-english-slideshow-a-110116-en

edu-more-or-less-equal-english-slideshow-b-110116-en

edu-more-or-less-equal-english-session-1-110116-en

 

There’s articles like this that pop up from time to time that look at the role of the English language in Inequality:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/decay-of-english-language-makes-it-perfect-for-lying-1.4012377