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GLOBAL EDUCATION WEEK 2007

EVALUATION & PLANNING FEEDBACK FORM

1. Please indicate the major achievement of the GEW 2007 in your country1

    - raising awareness of education policy makers, school administrators and teachers in different subjects of civic, gender, human rights, global education issues and how their disciplines can contribute to teaching them to students;
    - developing recommendations and teaching materials for civic, gender, human rights, global education in different school disciplines, extra-curricular activities and general approach to school organisation;
    - training educators in using materials and applying general approaches to tackling these issues in school;
    - broader dissemination of the recommendations and the materials.

2. Please indicate obstacles for a sound implementation of GEW

Lack of an official administering and coordinating structure

3. How is the GEW coordinated nationally?

    Is there any official coordinating structure? No

    Or a Global Education national platform? No

    Which are your main partners at national level? And international level?

    Ministry of Education and Science (very limited involvement,)NGOs, CoE

4. Has any website on Global Education Week activities or resources been developed in your country? If site exists please share its web-address.

No special web-site but the information about GEW and its goals was placed on the web-site of the Ministry of Education and put on the list serve of several ngos and published in the educational press.

5. Please report on networking and/or coordination strategies developed during the GEW (institutional level / local authorities / educational & youth structures / civil society / media)

6. After the week, any comments on the theme choice for GEW 2007 (relevance, adaptability, changes made to theme at national level, usefulness for activities with different age ranges, sectors, etc. )

No changes were made to the theme on the national level. However, the limitation of the activities was their focus on secondary education and cooperation of formal and non-formal sectors in providing it with no attention to adult education.

7. Please report, if possible, relevant quantitative results concerning the GEW in your country (i.e. number of schools - classes, pupils, teachers involved; youth organisations or groups, young people or youth workers/leaders; conferences; training events; news features; materials produced, related figures and dissemination, etc.)

As we treat GEW not as the goal of the activities in the field but an opportunity to highlight some of the achievement resulted from regular and continuous activities by reaching educators and broader public through information campaign (publications, list serves, conference and workshops presentations), I don’t think we can speak about GEW outcomes in terms of quantitative and qualitative results (in our case).

8. Please report relevant qualitative information concerning the impact of the GEW in your country (i.e. type of strategies, methods, projects; reactions and suggestions by teachers, pupils, youth organisations; local communities; educational authorities, Ministry of Education; opportunities for co-operation among NGOs, teachers etc.)

9. For Global Education Week 2007,

· Is there a theme-choosing process at national level; if so, can you describe it for the benefit of other countries that do not have such a process?

Not really, but what is clear from the discussions the educators would prefer a focus on this or that issue within the broad concept of global education. This would help to have a focus in the activities and in the long run to clarify the concept itself, which the educators are still quite vague about.

· Are there any themes already emerging for the week at national level – if so, which themes?

10. Are there any existing or planned educational materials that you would like to share with the network?

The materials mentioned in the answer to question 1 are in Ukrainian and quite specific in terms of the Ukrainian context. They and the approach can be briefed on but the materials themselves won’t be of much use to the network because of the language and specific context.

11. Give concrete examples on how the North-South Centre has been useful in facilitating the Global Education Week in your country;

Would be useful to organise a meeting/seminar for Ukrainian educators devoted to the global education issues and the activities of the NSC or at least arrange a panel at one of the education conferences. We can discuss the possibilities.

12. Please indicate how North-South Centre could improve its actions in supporting your work in GEW in your country and at the European level.

See question 11.

13. Please do suggest ideas for improving the GEW preparatory process; the GEW webpage and the Global Education Newsletter

PR materials like posters, book markers (for children) and hard copies of newsletter provided NSC has funding.

Thank you for your co-operation!

Svitlana POZNYAK
Academy of Pedagogical Science of Ukraine
Institute of Social and Political Psychology
15, Andriivska St. 04070 KIEV
Tel.: (+380) 44 425 68 26
Fax: (+380) 44 425 45 56
e-mail: sveta@svshean.kiev.ua


1 The answer to this question reflects the activities and achievements which were the focus of 2007 rather than GEW only.