Montgomery Development Education Centre

Welcome to the Montgomery Development Education Centre (MDEC) website. MDEC is an Aberdeen based organisation, covering the whole of the North-East of Scotland. We are the education section of the Aberdeen Third World Centre. The Centre is part of the International Development Education Association of Scotland (IDEAS). This is a network of over 40 organisations and individuals involved in Development Education and Education for Global Citizenship/Sustainable Development Education across Scotland.

COME AND MEET MASAUKO KHEMBO - A FAIRTRADE MALAWIAN SUGAR FARMER

Submitted by mdec on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 16:46.

Special event for ALL ABERDEEN schools

Friday March 9th

Are you learning about Fair Trade and/or planning Fairtrade Fortnight activities?

Have you been learning about Malawi in class?

Come and meet

Masauko Khembo - a Malawian Sugar Farmer, visiting Aberdeen

Click here for a Flyer

CPD COURSES in MARCH 2012

Submitted by mdec on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 16:38.

Two great courses for staff and probationers

1. GETTING STARTED WITH GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS 15th March

"Inspired and reminded me to embed Global Citizenship in the Curriculum" Comment from previous session

Click here for the descriptor / registration details

2. EXPLORING EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN SCOTLAND PAST AND PRESENT 26th March

"Clear, challenging , interesting, timely given CfE implementation" Comment from previous session.

FREE EXTENSIVE RESOURCE TO TAKE AWAY.

Click here for the descriptor / registration details

END OF YEAR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP RESOURCE SALE

Submitted by mdec on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 16:01.

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP RESOURCES REDUCED IN PRICE

A wide range of current Global Citizenship resources on special offer!

Go to www.seedsforlearning.co.uk and choose.

20% discount on your total order with postage reduced as well.

Resources linked to rights, fair trade, sustainable development and much more

Full instructions on how to obtain your reduced price resources are given here

Ideas, Web Links, Resources to borrow - for different Global Citizenship themes

Submitted by mdec on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 13:08.

FAIR TRADE, The OLYMPICS, CHILDREN'S (UNCRC) and HUMAN RIGHTS, PHILOSOPHY FOR CHILDREN (P4C), CLIMATE CHANGE..........

ALL these topics / themes now have UPDATED or NEW

'RESOURCES TO BORROW' and 'WEB-LINK / ACTIVITY' SHEETS

PLANNING AN OLYMPIC THEME FOR THE SUMMER TERM?

Click here for our brand- new Olympic 'suggestion and web link' sheet to build global citizenship into your theme.

Click here to access the other