Records of the World Studies Trust, including:
Minutes of Trustees meetings and AGM, 1988-2010; Annual Reports, 1996-2005; Global Teacher Project papers, 1999-2005 (also known as the Mentoring Project):outputs from project staff, including training materials and evaluation feedback; World Studies 8-13 Project papers, 1980s-1990s.
The World Studies Trust is an educational charity established in 1988 to 'develop and support work in the formal education sector which promotes the knowledge, attitudes and skills which young people need in order to practice social and environmental responsibility in a multicultural society and interdependent world'.
The Trust was created to oversee the work of the successful national curriculum project 'World Studies 8-13' set up by David Hicks and Simon Fisher in 1980 as a Schools Council project. 'World Studies' was the term used at that time to refer to the international academic field of global education.
Activities of the Trust:
Working with teachers, pupils and others to promote the need for a global demension in the curriculum
Supervising national conferences and workshops on World Studies
Publishing educational materials and reports
Running projects to promote World Studies
Networking with similar bodies, organisations and initiatives
Projects:
1990-1992: national evaluation of the effectiveness of active learning metholologies in promoting core values of Development Education (continuation of the 8-13 World Studies Project)
1993-1996: Initial Teacher Education and Global Citizenship project - worked with teacher-trainers to promote a World Studies approach in initial teacher education
1997-1998; Pilot 'Mentoring project', (which then became the Global Teacher Project)
1999-2005: Global Teacher project (in two phases, 1999-2002 & 2002-2005)
Management structure
The Trust is run by the Trustees Meeting, which also has various sub-groups, such as Publications. Project Management groups were set up for each funded project - these reported back to the Trustees.
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Given by the Trust in July 2013.
