Global Education, Canterbury

Walking around the wall of Canterbury we came across a Global Education Centre at the back of a car park and were welcomed in. The tiny room was piled high with books, videos, kits etc looking other than the size like most Global Education centres I have known. It was great to exchange ideas and information with the co-ordinator, and there were many similarities with the situation in Australia although they receive no government funding. She had a lovely set of 5 large cloth dolls which were the result of a funding submission and were used in classroom work on cultural diversity.
They work more with the Religious Education curriculum than we seem to in Australia, and in Canterbury there is a connection with the Cathedral’s education centre
http://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/schools.html
(itself staffed by 2 fulltime teachers + administrator).