A class from the Gaspar Frutuoso Basic Education School in Ribeira Grande is participating in an educational project titled “Connecting Worlds” (Conectando Mundos) which aims to promote “a transforming education” focused on development and global citizenship in schools.

This Education proposal, developed by four European Non-Governmental Organisations: Ucodep (Italy), Oxfam (Spain), Inizjamed (Malta) and CIDAC (Portugal) is promoted through the online platform http://www.conectandomundos.org.

Students and teachers from different geographic, socio-economic realities with different teaching levels will have the opportunity to interact and reflect, via Internet, on the complex historical, cultural and social relations between local and global realities.

For the present school year the theme proposed to all participants, are aged between 6 and 17 years, will focus migrations and the development between peoples.

The class 5th B from the Gaspar Frutuoso Basic Education School is developing this project in curricular areas such as History, Geography, Citizenship Education, Personal and Social Development, Catholic Moral and Religious Education, and Research and Multidisciplinary Support.

The teachers Filomena Ferreira and Fátima Figueiredo, from the Gaspar Frutuoso Basic Education School, have recently participated in the 4th meeting of educators titled “The school in the world and the world in the school: Educating for global citizenship” (“A escola no mundo e o mundo na escola: Educação para a cidadania global) which took place in Colares, Sintra.

The meeting intended to be a space for sharing and critical reflection in order to encourage the understanding and discussion on the complexity of some global challenges, particularly the issue of migration and development.

Moreover, it also reinforced the necessary competences for the use of methodologies under in the context of a didactic proposal on Education for Global Citizenship and the sharing of different possibilities concerning the integration of the “Connecting Worlds” project in school practices.

Educating for global citizenship represents the promotion in the progressive establishment of values, attitudes and behaviours of students, as citizens aware of complexity of the world, who participate and committed in the creation of a just, equitable and inclusive society.