- May 14th, 2010
World Cup football
- nickmorgan
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Now that the Scottish domestic football season is over, football fans will turn to the FIFA World Cup taking place in June and July 2010. The competition provides a unique opportunity to promote global citizenship issues within Curriculum for Excellence, by looking at the host nation South Africa.
For teachers, the Teachers TV service has produced ‘Africa is calling’ , a video documentary about South Africa’s progress in the lead up to hosting the tournament.
A BBC story ‘the tribe that built a football stadium’ reports on the arena at Rustenburg, which is generating profits that go back into the local community.
The Guardian featured a story about Portsmouth player and South African team caption, Aaron Mokoena, who as a child survived a massacre during the Apartheid regime.
Another Guardian article raises questions about citizenship, rights and inequalities within South Africa and the continuing problems of crime and poverty.
Engaging young people in thinking about inequalities also provides a route in to the ‘1 goal’ campaign, an international effort to increase access to education for all children. This campaign has attracted mass support worldwide to encourage world leaders to make education a reality for excluded children, recognising a fundamental human right and a means to combat poverty. The campaign has produced a range of teacher resources, to help practitioners introduce global citizenship and rights issues in the classroom.
Categories africa, citizenship, international
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