Whole Education

Research conducted by MORI for DEA highlights that whilst 93% of young people think it is important to learn about issues affecting people’s lives in different parts of the world, only around half (56%) have had the opportunity in school to discuss problems from around the world where there are no easy answers. It is exactly this process of grappling with complex global problems that offers an opportunity for Whole Education, and schools are not meeting the demand for this.

Findings suggest that global learning has an impact: those who have experienced global learning in school are keen to understand more about the problems in the world, as well as being more likely than average to believe that what they do in their daily lives can affect those in other countries and that people like them have the ability to make a difference. These more informed pupils also appear to be more open to people of different backgrounds than those who have not experienced global learning in school, and more likely than average to say that they try to do things to make the world a better place. Those who have not experienced global learning in school, are less likely than those who have to be keen to learn more about problems in the world and to believe that they can do things to make the world a better place.

A copy of the report can be accessed here.

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