Growing Global Citizenship Education In Aotearoa

Resources to support World Water Day (March 22nd) https://www.smartwater.org.nz/water-education/unwwd/?

United Nations World Water Day Celebrate United Nations World Water Day on 22nd March with Smart Water.  Register your school class to receive a fun activity lesson kit. 

As the CAPEs shut down now that the funding has ceased we would like to keep Global citizenship education to the fore but expand to a more global focus.
Our TeachApac site has closed but you can still view the resources on our new GCED NZ site. https://sites.google.com/view/gcednz/home

You can also use our self-directed course on GCED to upskill in your own time.

https://sites.google.com/waikato.ac.nz/capes-course-gced/home

CAPEs GCED Self-Directed Course Welcome to this free course on global citizenship education (GCED). Brought to you by the Centres of Asia-Pacific Excellence (CAPEs) Education Team and Te Whai Toi Tangata

Our website is changing its home. Make sure to visit and bookmark the new site https://sites.google.com/view/gcednz/home.

LatAmCAPE
North Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence
The University of Waikato
Southeast Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence
Te Whai Toi Tangata

GCED NZ Click on a card to learn more about implementing global citizenship education in your classroom.

Want to find out more about global citizenship education and how to implement it in the classroom? Check out our free, online course. Work through the course in your own time to find out the Why, What and How of GCED.
https://sites.google.com/waikato.ac.nz/capes-course-gced/home
LatAmCAPE
North Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence
The University of Waikato
Southeast Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence
Te Whai Toi Tangata

Read all about the Step up to the World | Tū māia ki te Ao: Beyond COP21 Symposium held earlier this year at the Green School in Taranaki.
https://teachapac.nz/resources/green-school-symposium-2024

LatAmCAPE
North Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence
The University of Waikato
Southeast Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence
Te Whai Toi Tangata
Green School New Zealand

Green School Symposium 2024 In April 2024, Green School New Zealand partnered with the Centres of Asia-Pacific Excellence to present a symposium aimed at fostering global environmental sustainability.

Have you registered to spend time with the Polynesian Panthers in Otautahi Christchurch next week?

They'll be running two sessions focused on the activism of Auckland’s 1970s Polynesian Panthers and their ‘three point’ philosophy of:

•peaceful resistance
•Pacific empowerment
•educating Aotearoa New Zealand about persistent systemic racism.

This is our final event in the Step up to the World | Tū māia ki te Ao series, make sure you don't miss out! Register with the link below.

https://ivvy.com.au/event/3EBRYQ/

The Waikato CAPEs education team is proud to present Step up to the World | Tū māia ki te Ao: Global Citizenship Education and the Asia-Pacific, a free event in Christchurch.
Thursday 13 June 2024 from 9am to 4pm at The Christchurch Town Hall. Register here https://www.ivvy.com.au/event/3EBRYQ/

This regionally-focused forum, features special guests the Polynesian Panther Party Legacy Trust presenting 'Our Living Room'
Focusing on the activism of Auckland’s 1970s Polynesian Panthers and the PPP’s ‘three-point’ philosophy: Peaceful resistance, Pacific empowerment and educating Aotearoa, New Zealand about persistent systemic racism. The workshop aims to support teachers in naming, negotiating and navigating racism in schools.

If you missed the forum in Hamilton here's another chance to catch this amazing event.

Join us for a day of learning where you will be
inspired to think critically
empowered to transform
equipped with tools and strategies.
This event is free of charge with morning tea and lunch provided.
LatAmCAPE
North Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence
Southeast Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence
The University of Waikato
Te Whai Toi Tangata

Don't forget to register for Step up to the World|Tū māia ki te Ao:
‘Learning Languages, the heart of Global Citizenship’, next Tuesday, 21 May 2024 from 5.30pm – 7.30pm at Victoria University, Pipitea Campus. Free entry, refreshments supplied.
https://www.ivvy.com.au/event/95DRZ4/

LatAmCAPE
North Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence
Southeast Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence
The University of Waikato

Join us for a moderated conversation and a fun language activity during Aotearoa Spanish Language Week, Tuesday 21st May, at
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
This free event will be dedicated to the essential worth of learning all languages in modern global citizenship.
Panelists include:
🌐H.E Maria Belen Bogado, Ambassador of Argentina to New Zealand
🌐Tufaina Faraimo, Assistant Principal Glenview School, Tokelaun teacher
🌐Dr Clara Gomez Jimeno, National Spanish Language Advisor, Embassy of Spain
🌐Victoria Hallum, Deputy Secretary, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
🌐Professor Rawinia Higgins, Māori Language Commissioner
🌐Oliver Ibbetson, Federated Farmers and Prime Minister's Scholar for Asia
🌐Annabelle Sinclair, Head of Languages, Wellington Girls' College and Vice-President of the New Zealand Association of Language Teachers
https://ivvy.com.au/event/95DRZ4/

APCEIU is presenting their interactive online workshop: Expanding the vision of peace through GCED June 19th - 28th. This is a prerequisite course for the 23rd Asia-Pacific Training Workshop on EIU/GCED. More details in the poster or at https://www.gcedonlinecampus.org/_HTML/closed_course_view.php?id=152 .

There's still time to register for the Dangerous Ideas, Future Solutions event, part of the Step up to the World|Tū māia ki te Ao series for 2024. Get in quick though, the event is this week Friday at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT).

The Centres of Asia-Pacific Excellence, in collaboration with the New Zealand Association of Philosophy Teachers, are providing this free forum on global citizenship and philosophy with morning tea and lunch provided.

Come along with an open mind ready to learn and explore:
•big and dangerous ideas
•who we are as global citizens
•how to figure out the right thing to do
•solutions to big world problems
•the ideas of philosophy and philosophising.

The full programme can be found via the link below.
https://www.ivvy.com.au/event/Y7BY4L/