Form Four students at a Global Citizenship Education workshop conducted by Alia Nur.
This piece is written by English teacher Alia Nur Dodgson from SMK Taman Daya 2, Johor, on how the The Star’s Newspaper-in-Education programme complements the Global Citizenship Education (GCED).The GCED, a notion proposed by the United Nations, aims to nurture young people so that they become responsible and active global citizens. It maintains 17 global goals to solve world problems and achieve sustainable development. A form of civic learning, it involves students’ active participation in projects that address global issues of a social, political, economic or environmental nature.
And what better way to learn about current global issues than reading the newspaper?
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