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Commonwork resources

Resources Commonwork has produced the following resources for sale:

From Spectators to Spect-actors: using forum theatre to explore global citizenship.

A resource booklet for teachers, youth workers and facilitators

This resource introduces teachers, youth workers and others to the concepts of global citizenship and forum theatre. It includes step-by-step session plans with information on getting started, warm-up games, exercises and activities. The booklet is suitable for youth workers and teachers at Key Stages 2-4 in Citizenship, Drama, English, Geography, PSHE, RE and cross-curricular work as well as development education and theatre-in-education practitioners.

Forum theatre as a participatory form of theatre is a powerful tool to explore global citizenship. To receive a complimentary printed copy of the resource booklet (while stocks last) please email info@commonwork.org or alternatively you can download the resource as a PDF, for free, from this website.

Globetrotters Handbook New Key Stage 2/3 publication – ‘Globetrotters Club’ Fun activities to engage children in global citizenship This handbook and CD provide a series of ten after school sessions exploring a number of countries and a range of issues such as climate change, rich and poor, and conflict resolution. Each issue links to one of the eight key concepts of the global dimension and is situated in a particular country to help reinforce the concepts of global interconnectedness and interdependence.

The material has been piloted in schools by teachers and children and contains material to support curriculum work on the global dimension. The material is aimed at KS2/3 but has been successfully adapted for younger and older students. It is also suitable for youth groups.

In addition Commonwork recommends the following resources for use with groups:
• Get Global - www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/get_global
• Global Citizenship; The Handbook for Primary Teaching
• RISC’s Growing Up Global: Early Year’s Global Education Handbook - www.risc.org.uk/education/risc_publications.php

We also collaborate with other organisations in working towards engaging schools and groups in sustainable and global issues.

• GOSE - www.go-se.gov.uk - Government Office for the South East
  Eco Schools - www.eco-schools.org.uk
  KCC/ASK Advisory team - www.kenttrustweb.org.uk/ask
• Development Education Association - www.dea.org.uk
  A national network of organisations that are committed to development education
• SUSTAIN - www.sustainweb.org The Allliance for better food and farming
• Soil Organisation - www.soilassociation.org
• RISC - www.risc.org.uk - Reading International Solidarity Centre

For more details, please contact:
Jo Sheach
Tel: 01732 463255
Email: jos@commonwork.org