Gender Issues

Current Issues

Using The Pulitzer Center Issues, students research a global issue and interpret this problem through a tempera painting inspired by Pablo Picasso's Guernica (USA 2020).

Series of books on contemporary social issues for 14- to 18-year-olds (U.K.; Independence Educational Publishers, 2007-20)

Students are introduced to the concepts of liberal and conservative and the association of these with the Democrats and Republicans (USA: Econed 2020).

Teachers often avoid “hot-button” topics because the issues are so complex, or because they don’t feel prepared to handle the strong feelings and opinions discussion might stir, the TeachableMoment.org project offers 10 suggestions for how to take some of these issues on in constructive, thoughtful and sensitive ways (New York Times Learning Network ...

This Training Pack is a professional development programme of the Council of Europe which is designed to support and promote the teaching of controversial issues in schools (2015-20).

Numerous lesson plans put students in the role of decision makers at critical moments in history (USA: Brown University 2018). 

The environmental justice atlas documents and catalogues social conflict around environmental issues. The map is a valuable teaching resource for curricula about social and environmental issues. (USA 2020)

Independent non-profit international research and advocacy organisation involved in issues relating to development, developing countries and North-South affairs. Its website contains information on economics, environment and other issues from a development perspective (2018).