Our World Resources

NEW! Global Survey of Youth Attitudes towards Citizenship, Identity, and World Peace in the New Millennium Survey 2006. (Download)

NEW! 2006 Survey of Youth Identity and Citizenship in the 21st Century Powerpoint Presentation. (Download)

Publications: This section lists useful global citizenship education publications. If you are interested in having a publication listed, please send a hard copy to Ron Israel.

Conceptual Frameworks / Think Pieces

Global Campaign for Education, A Fair Chance: Attaining Gender Equality in Basic Education by 2005, Media Brief. (Brief in PDF format)
This brief stresses the importance of gender equality in basic education to the attainment of other Millenium Development Goals, and lays out necessary actions for governments and donors for reaching equality by 2005.

Cogan, John J. and Derricott, Ray, Citizenship for the 21 st Century, An International Perspective on Education. Kogan Page Lts., London, 1998.
This book seeks answers to three important questions for the field of global citizenship education: (a) What are the major global trends that are likely to have significant impact upon the lives of people during the next 25 years? (b) What will be the characteristics required of individuals in order to cope with or manage these trends? (c) How might these characteristics be developed?

Flowers, Nancy (ed.), Human Rights: Here and Now. Minneapolis, MN: Human Rights
Resource Center, University of Minnesota, 1998.

Shiman, David A., Economic and Social Justice: A Human Rights Perspective.
Minneapolis, MN: Human Rights Resource Center, University of Minnesota, 1999.

Shiman, David, Teaching Human Rights. Denver, CO: Center for Teaching
International Relations, University of Denver. 1999.

Case Studies and Program Descriptions

Banks James A (editor), Diversity and Citizenship Education. Jossey Bass, San Francisco, 2004.
Presents case studies and examples of successful programs from twelve nations, discusses problems that arise when societies are highly stratified along race, cultural, and class lines, and provides guidelines that educators can use to structure citizenship education programs that balance unity and diversity.

Tye, Kenneth A., Global Education: A Worldwide Movement. Harrison Publishing, South Pasedena, California, 1999.
This books reviews and analyzes information on global education efforts in 52 countries. It provides information on the philosophy and definition of global education, global education curriculum content and teaching methods, and problems with and barriers to global education.

Curriculum Materials

Beyond Blame: Reacting to the Terrorist Attack
The curriculum piece Beyond Blame: Reacting to the Terrorist Attack is being on posted this website because we believe it may be useful in alleviating the tensions that result when an all too frequent series of events occur: a terrorist attack (or similar outrage on innocent civilians) is perpetrated, and it results in a society blaming the entire ethnic group to which the perpetrator belongs.

Exploring Humanitarian Law (EHL)
Developed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in close association with the Educational Development Center Inc. (EDC) and with the active participation of twenty countries from all parts of the world, EHL is an international education programme for young people between 13 and 18 years of age . The objective of the programme is to introduce adolescents to the basic rules and principles of international humanitarian law (IHL), i.e. the body of rules which aims to protect life and human dignity during armed conflict and to reduce and prevent the suffering and destruction that result from war. Building on the experiences of a wide variety of countries, the programme is transnational in scope, cutting across political, social, religious and cultural contexts, and can easily be adapted to diverse educational settings.
To learn more about EHL, please click here, or contact Marilyn Felt at mfelt@edc.org.

Rameckers, Frans (editor), Our World Review of Global Citizenship Education Curriculum Materials. Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), Newton , MA, 2003.
Presents reviews of exemplary curriculum materials in fields related to global citizenship education, such as peace education, human rights education, geography, and civics education