The Council of Europe ’s new guidelines on global education are a transformative model that focuses to a large degree on overcoming the inheritance of imperialism with a focus on human rights, social justice, sustainability, conflict management, and education for global citizenship.
http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/nscentre/GEguideline_presentation_en.asp for an intro

http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/nscentre/GE/GE-Guidelines/GEguidelines-web.pdf the actual document

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The interconnected world does not mean everyone is affected the same way by the current global financial crisis.  Read a sampler below.

Nigeria

Iceland

United Kingdom

Singapore

Brazil

Dubai

Check out http://soundvision.com/ , an American Muslim website, for their resources on Islam, African American history, marriage and many other topics.

Students of a teacher I work with enjoyed “the marriage page” and had a good discussion comparing the ideal Muslim husband  http://soundvision.com/Info/Islam/marriage.ideal.asp
with their own ideas on the ideal spouse.

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