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• Oxfam Schools and Youth contribution to the Primary Review's interim report
  Oxfam believes that the primary curriculum must set learning within a global context in order to prepare children and young people for the demands of the twenty-first century and a world of increasing interdependence. This submission to Sir Jim Rose's primary curriculum review praises the aim to develop ‘responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society’ and the inclusion of ‘human, social and environmental understanding’ as an area of learning but presses for greater recognition of the global aspects of each. It takes climate change as an example of how learners should be encouraged to connect the environmental effects with impact upon people all over the world and the challenges posed for society to deal with this. View the review online.
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• You Are Therefore I Am: How Empathy Education Can Create Social Change
  Reviewing current international and UK examples of empathy education, this paper explores how education can be used to cultivate the empathy required to create social change. The paper offers suggestions as to how the teaching of empathy can be strengthened within England's education system.
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• Evidence to the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee Inquiry into the National Curriculum (March 2008)
  Oxfam believes that learning and teaching should be set within a global context and encouraged the Select Committee to urge government to make the necessary changes to teacher training, assessment and inspection to support the creation of schooling/education fit for the twenty first century.
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• Go Gordon (August 2007)
  When Gordon Brown took over as Prime Minister in August 2007, Oxfam produced this document urging him to make changes to inspection and assessment as well as to teacher training in order to make the England education system fit for the twenty-first century.
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• Life in the 21st century demands a different type of education
  Oxfam believes that a new vision for education in England in needed. This leaflet kick-starts a conversation about what this might be.
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• Transcript of the inaugural Oxfam education lecture at the RSA
  A talk by Dr Leon Feinstein entitled 'A holistic perspective on education for an era of globalisation'. Followed by a discussion with key decision-makers on the topic What should be the education agenda for the 21st century?'
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