The Global Ed. Website is an education resource for students and teachers. It has information on a wide diversity of global issues including development economics, governance, HIV/AIDS, human rights, health, refugees, women, the environment, food security and agriculture. Information on countries assisted by the Australian Government's overseas aid agency is also available.

Australian aid helps people by improving governance, private sector development, trade, education, water supplies and sanitation, providing emergency aid in times of crisis, building schools, hospitals and larger-scale developments and by providing technology and expert knowledge for agriculture and industry. The Global Ed. program provides teachers and students with the chance to investigate these issues on a local, regional and global scale.

Helping students to understand Australia's relationship with the world's developing countries in particularly important, especially with those in our own neighbourhood.

Case studies, teacher's notes and student activities

Most of the information on the Global Ed. Website is presented in the form of case studies. Each case study is written by a professional curriculum writer and targeted to Australian state and national curriculum. All case studies are reviewed prior to being published to ensure they are of high educational quality and relevant to Australian education areas of learning. The material shows positive approaches to the challenges and opportunities that the global environment presents.

Case studies on the Global Ed. Website cover issues relevant to both primary and secondary school levels. In some cases however, a case study may cover a specific area of learning at a particular level, for example, upper secondary economics.

Teacher's notes and student activities are included for each case study. Teacher's notes provide an overview of the case study. They list key objectives and outcomes and shows how the case study relates to Australian school statements and profiles and at what level. Teacher's notes also provide advice on preparation and procedure and list other resources relating to the case study and area of learning. Student activities cover a range of cognitive processes designed around the case study. The activities are produced so all or some may be used depending on the teacher's objectives.

Click here for a list of primary school case studies.
Click here for a list of secondary school case studies.

Other educational resources

The Website also provides information on a diversity of other resources available to teach global education in the classroom. This includes the latest videos, publications and other items such as posters. A short summary and information on how to obtain the resources is listed.

Click here for a list of primary school resources.
Click here for a list of secondary school resources.

Navigating the website

The Global Ed. website has been designed to be viewed in any browser, from graphical browsers down to speech or braille readers.

If you would like this website to download more quickly, depending on your browser, you should be able to turn off the graphics (look under the help option of your browser). This will mean that any images or graphics will not show.

This Internet site is compliant with the AGLS metadata standard.

This Internet site is Bobby approved for people with disabilities, in accordance with W3C Guidelines for web accessibility.

People with disabilities who wish to access PDF format publications should either:

1. Submit the URI of the PDF document to an online converter provided by Adobe, which will return the text in HTML format readable by appropriate speech conversion software.
2. Download the PDF document and send it by email to Adobe for conversion and return in plain format.
3. Download an additional free plugin for Acrobat 4 and Acrobat 4 Reader, called Acrobat Access. Full instructions on downloading and using this plugin are provided by Adobe - currently available for Windows users only.

We recommend that such users visit the Adobe Acrobat Access website and select the option that best suits their needs.

People with disabilities who require further assistance should call the AusAID Internet Manager on telephone 02 6206 4737.

If you'd like some help with navigating through this site, click here.

Global Education Program

The Global Ed. Website is part of an overall program to bring a greater knowledge and understanding of development issues and the Australian Aid Program to teachers and students in Australia. The program is part of the Australian Government's Overseas Aid Agency. Click here for more information on the Aid program.

Aside from funding the production of Australian school curriculum material, the Global Ed. program supports the professional development of teacher's in global education. Click here for more information on Global Ed.'s professional development project.

If you would like any further information on the Global Education program, click here.

If you have any feedback on the website, click here.

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www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au

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