{"id":175,"date":"2013-09-18T13:05:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T11:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solarev.org\/climatechange\/?page_id=175"},"modified":"2016-08-22T17:09:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T15:09:30","slug":"report-central-for-global-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/solarev.org\/climatechange\/de\/educational-toolbox\/report-central-for-global-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Central for Global Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><strong>V<span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">isit in the Organisation EPIZ (Central for Global Education in Berlin)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">Setting:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">We visited the EPIZ, to get to know an organisation in Berlin, which is doing educational work in schools about the topic \u201cglobal learning\u201d. This includes environmental topics, also about climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">Aim:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">To get to know about the experiences and methods of an organisation, which also does political, educational work. This knowledge helps us, to improve our own work in political education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">Description:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">The director of the EPIZ (Mary Prinzler) did a small introduction about the main goals of the institution and asked us to present ourselves. Afterwards, she did a presentation about the work that is being developed which ended up with a group game, where we had to order sentences about globalization (based on a game, availabe in <i>globaldimension.org<\/i> website). To finalize, we went to the media library, and saw all the education material available, for teachers, pupils and other people with interest in them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">Introduction of the EPIZ:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"fi-FI\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">The development Educational Information Center EPIZ is an organisation of global learning that is both regional, national and as well as international. EPIZ is financed with the suport of the Berlin senate (State Office for Development Cooperation). The organization has 2 person&#8217;s working permanently in the office and 5 person&#8217;s working in different pojects. It was founded 27 years ago.The main goal is to support civil society organizations in four main areas:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"> Political<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"> Educational<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"> Social<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"> Economical<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">The main-topics, the EPIZ deals with:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">Fair Trade<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">To be fair and responsable towards people around the world <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">To be fair to the environment<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">Eliminate racism in the classrooms<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">Difficulty in being updated <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">Visits to schools (Namibia Project)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">Methods of the EPIZ:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">Media Library for teachers, to support them for the lessons<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">Online Platform<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">Material Development (ex. Compasito Manual and about relevant issues like oil)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">E-learning Platform (teachers are still not useed to work with online materials)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Developmentof interactive methods in political education for school classes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><b>Practical Method, we tried out:<\/b><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">The director seperated us in small groups. Each group got 5 statements about the topic \u201eGlobalisation\u201c. We should arrange these sentences in a hierarchy of our priorities. (Which sentence is the most important for us, which the less?) Afterwards we showed our results and discussed about this in the whole group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">Evaluation:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">The aims of the institution are very admirable. But perhaps the teachers in the particular schools should participate more in the methods choices and give their point of view, in order to have a more efficient, engaged and integrated method, that can reach success in the educational process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">The practical method we tried out, was confusing, although the groupexperiences were good. To share different points of view and help each other in understanding the statements. But it was too complicated, the political sentences have been too difficult. It`s not working, to do this with very young pupils. Before the exercise it would have been important, to get some more informations about the topic. For us, the aim of this exercise wasn`t clear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">We have been impressed of the educational material in the library. There was a lot of variety. But the material was mostly in german and it would have been useful to have it also in other languages, at least in english.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit in the Organisation EPIZ (Central for Global Education in Berlin) Setting: We visited the EPIZ, to get to know an organisation in Berlin, which is doing educational work in schools about the topic \u201cglobal learning\u201d. This includes environmental topics, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/solarev.org\/climatechange\/de\/educational-toolbox\/report-central-for-global-education\/\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":124,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-175","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarev.org\/climatechange\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarev.org\/climatechange\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarev.org\/climatechange\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarev.org\/climatechange\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarev.org\/climatechange\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/solarev.org\/climatechange\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/solarev.org\/climatechange\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions\/177"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarev.org\/climatechange\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarev.org\/climatechange\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}