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Inclusion and Diversity in Education Glasgow City Council International Education Office

Explore how Glasgow City Council's International Education Office collaborated with 5 schools to enhance inclusion, diversity, and empower learners, especially migrant groups, through various initiatives and partnerships. Learn about their efforts to celebrate cultural differences and promote respect through the INDIE project.

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Inclusion and Diversity in Education Glasgow City Council International Education Office

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  1. Inclusion and Diversity in Education Glasgow City Council International Education Office

  2. 5 Schools • All Saints Secondary School • Hillhead High School • Holyrood Secondary School • Lourdes Secondary School • Shawlands Academy

  3. INDIE Objectives • Raise achievement for all learners • Respect and celebrate diversity • Promote learner voice • Incorporate best practice in to their processes of improvement and self evaluation so as to make these practices sustainable in the long term

  4. EU Context - Migration • “there has been a rise in the number of migrants, including asylum seekers and economic migrants, in Europe as well as increasing levels if migration between the countries of Europe, an aspect of the broadening EU” www.britishcouncil.org/INDIE “there is no history without migration”. Ohlige, Berlin 2009

  5. EU Green Paper The EU Green Paper on migration along with other recent influential reports has identified the low achievement of some migrant groups.

  6. Glasgow City Council Context • Largest Local Authority in Scotland • Highest number of asylum seeker families living in Glasgow compared to the other 31 Local Authorities • Home Office 2000 Asylum Act/Glasgow receiving City • Long history of supporting the teaching and learning of new arrival children and young people

  7. Inclusion and Diversity in Education • Initiative provided focus for the 5 Glasgow schools to develop policy and practice on inclusion and race equality • Young people from each school were offered young leadership training • Worked together to develop the Glasgow Youth Charter on Inclusion and Diversity • Representative from each school attended the Pan European event in Brussels February 2008 to create European Youth Charter

  8. Working with Partners • Greece • Spain • Portugal Glasgow worked with its partners to deliver key points within the curriculum from the INDIE European Youth Charter e.g. point 7 ‘Schools should give possibilities to a wider range of cultures and religions, including more diverse language learning’

  9. October 2009“Stranger Film Festival Amsterdam” • Representatives from all 5 Glasgow schools travelled to Amsterdam to take part in the film festival and work with their European peers to create and produce short films on the theme of anti discrimination

  10. Outcomes and Experiences Relating to the National Curriculum • ‘Welcome to our Land’ an expressive arts project targeted at 3rd Year pupils (15 years old) including newly arrived pupils to develop the concept of diversity and cooperation through addressing the young peoples creativity (Shawlands Academy) • The school invited young people to put forward their ideas on how to celebrate cultural diversity, promote positive relationships and develop an ethos of respect – ‘Interfest’ (Hillhead High School)

  11. Scottish Government Curriculum for Excellence International Education helps to prepare young people for life and active participation in a global multicultural society, by developing in them a knowledge and understanding of the world and Scotland's place in it.

  12. Conclusion Impact of INDIE in Glasgow • Developed migrant pupils voice • Educated young people on the beauty of cultural difference and respect for others • Enhanced educational establishments as culturally inclusive environments to improve attainment “Borders? I have never seen one but I have heard they exist in the minds of some people” Thor Heyerdahl

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