Teacher Education The units available on this site are copyleft. You are welcome to use and adapt them for educational purposes. Knowledge and Perspectives Notions of Development Poverty and Wealth Consumerism and anti-consumerism Culture and representation Justice and Global Citizenship Progress and Civilisation Notions of Terrorism . Professional Development Booklet PDF document with all units Learning diary model (doc) Units in Word version (draft)

These units follow the OSDE procedures for teacher education/HE/adults:

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1. Engagement with stimulus (prompting cognitive dissonance) & Airing of views - in pairs
2. Informed thinking -where to find out more
3. Reflexive questions - individually (related to own perspectives)
4. Open Space questions -in small groups (focus on different logics and power + origins and implications of perspectives)
5. Airing of burning questions and views
6. Responsible choices -in small groups (decision making processes related to the theme)
7. Debriefing (reflection on learning process and quality of space)

Other suggestions for stimulus (film):

American History X (racism), Fight Club (violence), What the bleep do we know? (knowledge/science), City of God (violence/inequality), Bus 172 (violence/inequality), Crash (interdependence/complexity)