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Global Inequalities and the Climate Crisis (GICC) is a curriculum resource that supports geography teachers to explore the relationships between global inequality and the climate crisis with Key Stage 3 classes, using the country of Cameroon as a case study.
The resource was produced in partnership with the Decolonising Education for Peace in Africa (DEPA) project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council’s Global Challenges Research Fund as well as Impact Accelerator Account funding from the University of Lancaster.
Drawing closely on research from these academic projects enables the resources to foreground the voices and lived experiences of Cameroonian people themselves, at the same time as situating these experiences in a global context.
The resource responds to the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Africa’s Education report (2022), which found an ‘impoverished treatment of Africa in the school curriculum’, replete with misconceptions (APPG, 2022, p. 10). By developing a detailed case study of one country, informed by ethnographic narratives of lived experiences drawn from residents of that country, the resource seeks to support teachers of geography in providing more sensitive, anti-racist representations of Africa in their classrooms.
GICC consists of materials for five lessons, including lesson PowerPoints, worksheets, and suggested lesson plans. We have endeavoured to plan the lessons in a way that is mindful of the geography teacher as curriculum maker, so we hope that teachers will take these resources and find their own ways to integrate them into their teaching in dialogue with colleagues in their school settings.
The story told in this unit of work has been assembled from a collaboration between academic researchers, school geography teachers and the GA. It is a subjective representation informed by ethnographic testimonies. There are other stories to be told about the relationship between global inequalities and the climate crisis, and other ways the story we tell here could have been narrated. We look forward to hearing about how these resources are used in the classroom.
The GICC team:
Melis Cin, Lancaster University
Alesha de Fonseka, Raffles World Academy Dubai UAE
Aliyou Haman, Aberdeen University
Manu Lekunze, Aberdeen University
Parvati Raghuram, Open University
Dan Whittall, Geographical Association
Chris Winter, Geographical Association
Resources
Download all resources for lessons 1-5
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