International Steering Team

Address 233-237 Roundhay Road
City Leeds
Country United Kingdom
Website www.leedsdec.org.uk
Phone 0113 380 5660

Leeds Development Education Centre was set up by Oxfam in 1978 to promote a greater understanding of global development issues to young people and adults. Based in Leeds the DEC seeks to support teachers and youth workers across West Yorkshire to bring a global dimension to their work.

What is development education?
Development Education aims to help people develop their understanding of the links between their own lives and those of other people throughout the world. Development Education activities explore the economic, social, political and environmental forces that shape our lives, and examine the interplay between local, national and international issues, processes and events.

What we do
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
Leeds DEC works with schools to develop strategies to improve the delivery of the global dimension in the school curriculum.
The centre collaborates with educators across the UK, Europe and the global South to develop and publish guidance and active-learning materials for schools and youth groups on a range of topical global issues, including Fair Trade, Global Citizenship, Sustainable Development, Human Rights and Social Justice and Diversity.
We also provide professional development for teachers and youth workers through involvement in our curriculum development projects.

RESOURCE CENTRE
A wide range of books, photo-packs, activity packs, posters, handbooks, CD-ROMs, videos, games and simulations are available through our bookshop, library and mail order services. Our artefact boxes, containing everyday objects from different cultures can also be borrowed,and a set of primary topic boxes is available on a wide range of topics for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.

TRAINING SERVICES
We can provide whole training days or contributions to staff INSET on PHSE and Citizenship with the Global Dimension, Race Equality and Sustainable Development, and on the use of development education resources to deliver these areas of the curriculum.

Number of staff
We have 8 members of staff, all part-time except for one. We have 2 regular volunteers and some who are short –term. 

Staff members involved in the project
Trish Sandbach, Hannah Nunn, Kae Sinclair. Hannah and Kae are on short-term contracts.

Other Leeds DEC Projects
Awareness for Fairness
Making the Most of the New Curriculum
Education for Social Justice
Follow-on Project on the Millennium Development Goals

News

Sculpture workshop

Global Education in the GEPS Marktgasse

Two students each from class 1 till 4 attended an art workshop with Reinhard Herrmann. Together they're creating a "divers" sculpture.
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Many artists in one world

Global Education in the GEPS Marktgasse

The students and teachers of the GEPS Marktgasse are inviting everyone who's interested to their vernissage! -> Friday, 1st June 2012 in their school hall
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War: What good is it for?
One World Day. (Brudenell Primary School, Leeds) Students from Politics, Law and Geography Departments of the University of Leeds worked with Year 6 children from Brudenell Primary School on the topic: “War, what good is it?” from the 3 different department perspectives. The children were studying World War 2 as their topic and this event enabled them to reflect further on the reasons for and the results of wars. The day the children spent at the University with the students was a culmination of work done in school with them, in their school . Each slide on the 3 power-points relating to Politics, Law and Geography, is the result of an individual child’s work or a pair working together For all the presentations click on the link.
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Black Gold

A science investigation into oil drilling and spilling

The pupils of St. Benedict's Primary School in Leeds have done a lengthy studuy of black gold:oil- how it is formed, who produces it and consumes it.
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Water in fruits and vegetables

Global Education in the primary school St. Elisabethplatz

The students of Waltraud Gross' class asked "how much water contains our food?" And they got to the bottom of it!
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Ce projet est mené avec l’appui de l’Union Européenne. Les contenus de celui-ci sont la seule responsabilité des organisations de mise en œuvre et ne peuvent en aucun cas être considérés comme reflétant l’opinion de l’Union Européenne.

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