#global perspective

@temotizox

Translated from Spanish

Too spot-on not to share it, “Aussie response to Trump's outburst about NATO not being there for us.

Mate. You run a country with 600,000 people without a home sleeping on the streets tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people ration it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcies. A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.

You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on Earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people caged, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to pay bail. Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between math and English while you sell gun manufacturer stock to your mates.

Your minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years. You've got teachers working two jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you. And you've got a convicted felon, tried for rape, protector of pedophiles, porn star shagger, insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire campaign since the Taliban thanked you again for losing. And you call Greenland poorly run?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes broke there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.

'NATO wasn't there when we needed them.' When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years. And you pulled out at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left them dealing with the mess.

So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, take a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminum siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author Unknown

fuck GP classes

worst fucking teacher EVER

i hate my teacher so fucking MUCH she’s so fucking ANNOYING

she keeps making us repeat stuff and change stuff AND IT MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE 

and im so angry bcoz its not a subject i need

and her teaching method is STUPID

and im so fucking TIRED of having to attend this class

THIS CLASS JUST DRAINS ME SO MUCH MENTALLY BECAUSE ITS SO TIRING

its so stupid

and our school focuses so much on it

i mean i would get it if the teacher was good or if the class was enjoyable

BUT THIS CLASS IS LIKE ATTENDING A SHITSHOW IN HELL

Hi everyone!

We would like to share our exciting news with you! This week, we finished our first field e-research in Porta Mosana and, more specifically, with the incredible minds of the high school. We were so thrilled to discuss with all of them our insights, perspectives, and thoughts about different topics regarding their research paper for the Global Perspectives course. This first contact let our team observe and get to know our target group better in terms of motivation, dynamics, and engagement in the classroom. Drawing from our observations, we will keep on sharing interesting and innovative ideas with them in future meetings. 

After a thorough discussion, we helped our client design the course lessons for the next few months following the hybrid system (partly online, partly onsite lessons due to Covid-19) and decided to pay another e-visit in order to further discuss with pupils about our final event. We would like them to be involved in designing the final Global Citizenship market at school or online. We will keep you updated, as soon as we have a more concrete plan for our final event! Until then, check our introduction to a new recipe, and enjoy your weekend! :D

This week was very important for us: our Global Citizenship Market took place on-site at Porta Mosana. We were very excited as this event allowed us to put into practice four and a half months of research, discussion, brainstorming, interviews, and designing.

We are proud to say that our Global Citizenship Market was a success! Our client and mentor were delighted and the pupils rated our activities with more than 7/10! Our activity of drawing a world map from memory was definitely a hit.

What is a good project without some background research, thought, and constant discussion? This week, our team focused on our “Project Report” where we collected ideas about our next steps and goals, and we did some research on the general framework of Global Citizenship. 

We discovered that Global Citizenship Education (GCED) is a term widely used by UNESCO together with numerous institutions worldwide, aiming at a peaceful and prosperous world which is based on well informed global citizens. These citizens start as lifelong learners who value respect, ethical responsibility, freedoms, critical thinking, social justice, and sustainability both in a local and in a global perspective. These values helped specify our main goals, which we discussed with our client. 

Education needs to be transformative and offer values for everyone, but no initiative comes without challenges. Global challenges such as lack of teacher capacity and training, inadequate focus on values, government resources, and diverse education systems need to be taken into account in order for the GCED to achieve success.

Next comes the more detailed design of our first meetings with the growing young global citizens, which will be touched upon in the next few days!