The education in international citizenship generally called Education in Development is integrated in the school curriculum and is an aspect of the French national education since 1981. 

The immersion workshop ‘Daily life in Senegal’ 

Dislocalisation of companies, fall of the exchange rate for the raw material, abandonment of the basic cultivation, these words appear constantly in one or other of  our newspapers. With one explication : Globalisation. 

An immersion workshop is an activity similar with roleplaying. It take place in an environment in which the equipment are already installed. Our aim is to reconstruct a village and a town of Senegal. The children take the roles of one of the inhabitants, their clothes and their names, and during half a day they lead a life of a Senegalese (fisherman, farmer,...), in a pre-created scenario which enables them to have a consciousness of solidarity ; globalisation impact ; richness found in other cultures...

 4 steps

n     preparation of the teacher

n     preparation of the pupils at schools by the teacher

n     activities at the workshop

n     analysis and reflection in class

The concerned public : pupils of 1 and 2 nursery school ; and the fifth and sixth primary school

 Information :

A  training program will be organised for the teachers. It will expose to them the objectives of the workshops and introduce to them the educational equipment needed for the information of the pupils on the problem of development.

During this training time, the teachers will receive two educational booklets. One which is called ‘’Carnet de Voyage, Cap sur le Sénégal’’ intended for the pupils, whereas the second one ‘’ Le livret de l’ enseignant’’ will be for the tutors.

The role of the teachers will be substantial for the preparation in class, during the realisation of the workshop and in extending the work on citizenship in class.

 Emotion :

During a half a day, in a reconstructed environment, the children have to live in a village or a quarter of a major  city in the South (presently Senegal).

After a break for arrangements of the roles, the children are confronted by certain situation such as : (fall of the peanut price, ‘’rural exodus’’, organisation of a village festival) They have to manage all these situations while they are taught to work together in order to find a solution. They so encounter the essential obligations but at the same time discover all the richness and values of a country.

 Reflection :

Afterwards, the teachers will visit the class. They let the pupils talk of their experiences and answer the questions which emerged during the workshop seance. At the end the teachers evaluate together with the children their conclusions.

 Formation in class :

For Nursery school, Primary school, Secondary  courses

The children will be familiarised with daily life of Senegal by the help of slide-show and some elemental objects of Senegalese life. Several themes will be introduced : The daily life in the town and village (food, school, customary clothing, family life, water, economical activities)

The pupils can grind, construct musical instruments out of recyclable materials (nursery ;primary) or participate in a game called ‘’Awale’’ (College) .

A booklet of school animation will enable the teacher to transfer and extend their discoveries to class.        

The animation takes one hour for the Nursery school, one and a half for the Primary and secondary school. For the animation, one needs : worlds map ; slide-show beamer and recyclable materials such as yoghurt tins, grains, noodles, metal hangers, lid with holes on it.        

 School correspondence and educational kit :

Primary and secondary school

We intend to create a relationship between the school institutions of Nord Pas de Calais and the region of Saint Louis in Senegal.

The correspondence is supported in Saint Louis by a group of tutors and a person engaged in the ministry of National Education of Senegal.

In Lille, we organise conferences to exchange the experiences and educational methods.

Information and rates of activities :

phone : + 33 3 20 53 76 76

Nursery school, Primary school, College, High school.

A kit of objects and tools to discover the daily life in Senegal is lent out to the classes.

A description facilitates the introduction in the reality of Senegalese life.

A kit of African stories

The rent is for one week or more, from Wednesday to Wednesday.

  Education in International Citizenship

"The education in development and International Solidarity aims at making the pupils aware of the dependency existing between the regions of the world, the solidarity of the people under the influence of globalisation and especially the economical, social and cultural reality of developing countries.

Nowadays, the pupils are confronted with various information. The education in development helps them to valorise all the worlds richness, to think and to propose concrete actions.

The Education in Development and International Solidarity includes also an essential element : Instruction on Citizenship. "   French Minister of  National Education, July 2003

Introduction :
Education in Development

The Education in Development is aiming at informing  the youth of the solidarity, necessary between North and South, in a frame of a globalisation which tries to rebalance the exchange between the industrial countries and the developing countries.

It is a continual education process, arranged and managed by a pedagogy which targets to share the values of international citizenship.

The Education in Development aims at helping the youth to understand the complexity of our world, that means :

- understand and accept the other as a different individual, belonging to one or several groups individual having their own logic which is sometimes contradictory.

- be aware of the interactions between the decisions of political and economical leaders and their affects on the worlds population

- understand the importance of certain questions in regard of our world

1- Presentation of the project

The project ‘’Positively Global’’ is managed by the Development Education Centre(DEC) of Leeds( in Britain)

It aims in developing the exchange of information between the pupils of the North and of the South with regard to their understanding of the proposed themes : generally on globalisation and its impact.

Included on this program are the institutions specialised in Education in Development, situated in several countries of the world, will build a collective network. They will support the instructions at schools( for pupils from 11 to 16 years)  by the creation and development of support and educational methods.

2- Network

The institutional partners in ‘’Positively Global’’ are :

n     The Development Education Centre (DEC) of Leeds (Britain)  in association with

n     The Durban University (South Africa) and

n     Education Centre for Health and the environment of Matagalpa in Nicaragua

n     The Partnership with Saint- Louis in Senegal and its region, in Lille (France) in association with

n     A net of partners in Saint-Louis (Senegal)

n     The association (Monimbo) of  Wiesbaden (Germany) which develops cooperative games

n     An association in Cuba

3- Organisation :

Every partner structure of the network of ‘’Positively Global’’ works with the schools in its region, together with the instructors. The instructors propose to the pupils the support and educational methods corresponding with the treated aspects.

Objectives of the teacher :

n     first, have a discussion with the pupils concerning different aspects and try to find out how they are related with globalisation.

n     second, to construct the support and educational activities, with the aim to confront the ideas of the pupils with the existing reality of the concerned countries (here, Senegal)

n     third, motivate the pupils to exchange their experience on the analysed aspects with a  partner class in another country (Senegal) with the help of the local structure of Education in Development (here  Partenariat) 

The participation of the partners in a network, coordinated by DEC of Leeds, allows the exchange and distribution of the supports and educational methods that are created by every instructor attached with the project.

Finally, it has to be emphasised that DEC of Leeds aims at creating educational practice, inspired by the methods found and tried during the project as a result of an international collaboration .

P.S : By the introduction of the project, the educational supports will be developed by the instructors working for DEC in Leeds. Then they will be distributed to all other networks. They might be identically used, modified or used as a support of other methods invented by the tutors, depending on the countries.

4-   Calendar and assumed themes

The project will take place for 3 years (from October 2002 to June 2005) and is annually structured as follows :

There will be a documentary research taking place from October to December

After the conference held in DEC of Leeds from 16 to20 September 2002, the chosen themes for the first year are :

n     Education

n     Communication

n     Analysis on the function of the World Bank

The educational activities will start from January to March. The reflection on the activities will take place from April to June. By means of evaluations formulas, prepared by DEC of Leeds, the pupils knowledge will be evaluated, before and after the workshops proposed by the instructors.

All the levels will be subject to analysis, done by the instructors and the referents of Education in Development.

The global annual analysis will be held on September 2003