Topic 2 Key Underpinnings of GCED

Key underpinnings:

• Focuses directly on key development and human rights issues locally and internationally
• Seeks to stimulate, inform and raise awareness of issues from a justice and/or rights perspective
• Routinely links local and global issues
• Explores key dimensions such as individual and public dispositions and values; ideas and understandings, capabilities and skills
• Critically engages with the causes and effects of poverty and injustice
• Encourages public inquiry, discussion, debate and judgement of key issues
• Encourages, supports and informs action-orientated activities and reflection in support of greater justice
• Takes significant account of educational theory and practice
• Emphasises critical thinking and self-directed action
• Seeks to promote experiential learning and participative methodologies
• Routinely challenges assumptions by engaging with multiple, diverse and contested perspectives