what is global education?

Global education is defined very broadly. According to the Development Education Association, global education is defined as an active learning process which enables people to understand the links between their own lives and those of people throughout the world in a changing global society that is multicultural and interdependent North-South Center defines it as an education that opens people's eyes to the realities of the world and awakens them to bring about a world of greater justice, equity and human rights for all.

The bottom line is that all definitions have one crucial likeness. It is the very idea that people from the most developed world regions, so called north, have to be aware of the problems of the less-developed ones, co called south, and have to be ready to help them. In terms of education, the relation between the rich north and the poor south is based on an assumption that the awareness is not the outcome itself, but it is likely that active participation on resolving global issues is to be the result. Its aim is to support the culture of solidarity.

Global education using innovative, interactive and modern tools of educating, aimed at developing critical and creative thinking of its target groups, has very broad content, from child labour issues, multiculturalism, and the death penalty, to concrete foreign cultures and other topics from developing countries.