Global citizenship brings together education for citizenship, international education and sustainable development education and recognises the common outcomes and principles of these three areas.
Making connections between them better equips learners with skills, knowledge, values and attitudes required to understand and address complex global issues which often transcend individual disciplines.
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Meeting the challenges of the modern world
Building the Curriculum 3The curriculum must be inclusive, be a stimulus for personal achievement and, through the broadening experience of the world, be an encouragement towards informed and responsible citizenship.
The 21st century has presented new opportunities and challenges and requires a different approach to education. In a fast-changing world, it is necessary for young people to acquire the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to adapt and to thrive. Their education should prepare them for living and working in a global society.
This is why developing global citizens is a key learning context within Curriculum for Excellence and why it is firmly embedded within the experiences and outcomes across all eight curriculum areas.
The embedding of global citizenship within the totality of all that is planned in the curriculum ensures that young people will be able to play a full and active part in society - politically, socially, economically, environmentally and culturally and understand Scotland's role within the wider world.
In this video, practitioners, pupils and representatives of Education Scotland explain the importance of global citizenship and how it makes a difference to them.
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