Change the Attitude, Change the Climate! (GLOCAL)

Change the Attitude, Change the Climate! 
Think Global, Act Local! (GLOCAL)
Restorative Justice for climate change

Erasmus+ Grant agreement: 2020-1-UK01-KA201-079000

Background

Climate Change is an issue that affects all of us; we will witness droughts, rise in sea levels, heat waves, decline in agriculture and difficulty accessing water. Climate change will drastically affect certain communities around the world, some of the most disadvantaged regions will be the most ramifications. 

Project Aim

The GLOCAL project aims to enhance Climate Change education and address key competences around the professional development of teachers and address basic skills in learners while meeting their needs in an educational programme on climate change.  Furthermore, the project involves student mobility and offers them a chance to be involved in strategic changes about their schools and education. 

The rationale of this project was developed as part of a consensus of understanding that sustainable living is a "must" and a necessary part of today’s education offer for students from all educational sectors.  It is also based on restorative justice and its principles of power-sharing and respect. 

The project aims to boost participants’ creativity and expression by motivating them to create powerful awareness raising messages on the current environmental situation; develop participants digital competences by using the e-learning platform; disseminate project’s results at local level by means of the "GLocal" calendar and at national and international level by means of the project’s website and Facebook. The project will disseminate its results at national and European levels, in so doing helping to achieve the objectives of the new EU Youth Strategy and the Erasmus+ Inclusion and Diversity Strategy in the field of youth.  

The GLOCAL project goals:


✅ Enhance climate change education enriching it with the restorative justice values and practices.

✅ Address key competences around the professional development of teachers when it comes to the environment and restorative justice.

✅ Address basic skills in learners.

✅ Improve student mobility via strategic changes.

✅ Boosts participants creativity and expression via powerful awareness raising messages.

✅ Develop digital competences by using e-learning platform.


Visit our Theory of Change to learn our approach and expected outcomes.

Educational Resources & ecourse

This resulted in a training programme for professionals and volunteers working in formal (e.g. schools) and informal (e.g. in the community) educational settings. The main objective of this deliverable is to develop and test an innovative training programme that will give to professionals/ volunteers in schools and informal educational settings skills, knowledge and confidence in teaching and indeed dealing with environmental issues including restorative justice.

GLOCAL e-book

The GLOCAL e-book will be the ultimate pride and concluding IO of the project. This Output will bring together all the research, pilots, learning and findings of the project into one e- book that will feature chapters in the participating languages as well as a comparative chapter in English. The IO will feature in two e-book versions: one short version with all the executive summaries of the national chapters in English including a comparative chapter in English and one long version with chapters reflecting the findings from each participating country and written in local languages. The main body will be written in English but chapters will be included in the various participating country languages. The annexes will include the training material and examples of innovative educational practices in the project area. The e-book will be provided for free and through open access and will have a ISBN number (via RJ4All Publications) and catalogued in the British Library. 

This course is for teachers, educators, youth leaders, organizations, and people of all ages on climate change along with the concept of restorative justice and how to effectively protect the environment using its values.

  • Click here or on the above graphic to enroll in our e-course.  
  • Click here to access the training manual.

Join the course now to make a difference for a sustainable future!


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Disclaimer:

The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein

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