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Our day started in the wilderness. Yet again we were reminded of nature’s role and it’s parallels to the formation of societies. Everyone and everything is intertwined. Some habits, ways of living, are adopted and carry on living, while others die out and are replaced. Survival of the fittest. The same goes for a multicultural society in which adopting and mixing other habits play an important part. You have to be willing to give new ways a chance and be open to letting go of yet others.

Our course reader provides a variety of global citizenship themes and skills images which will be interesting to enlarge and hang in classrooms just like posters. These handy reminders can be a good first step of introducing students to the idea of becoming a global citizen.

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Reflection on our fifth session of the Classroom with a view on the world project

Today we’ve been learning about what it means to be a global citizen and it’s basically all about (Oxfam, 1997) being aware that there is wider global community outside your own country and culture and that you have a responsibility towards this wider global community. Also according to him a global citizen has a basic understanding of how this world works, when it comes to economy, politics etc. So that is where our responsibility lies as a teacher.

I also really liked the idea of the global village is a way to show more easily this global community and who is in it. I would really like to be able to find an application to this concept to my teaching of physics in the classroom. That is something that I will try to do when I get home.

My final thoughts wandered towards the role technology (and thus science) has played in the creation of this global community. It is because of the technology of today that we find ourselves all connected to each other. Ironically it’s this same technology and science that has created some of the most difficult challenges to this global community, which is the large scale use of energy and the damage to the environment that’s the result of that. But I honestly believe that the answer also lies in the application of science and the adoption of new, better technologies, so that’s how I want to play my part in the global community, set students on a course of studying science and having them become the people that will give us the solutions in the future.

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Being a global citizen is not an achievement. It's not a program you can offer in school to a student that ends with a lovely certificate granting them the title: 'global citizen'. Global citizenship is a continuous journey. It's a way of perceiving and living life of which you have to be continuously aware.

But it can also be a bit of a paradox. It can be paralyzing, especially when you look at the sustainability and ecology part of it all. You can reach the point where you worry too much, and every trip, every expenditure, and every interaction leaves you worried whether you did the right thing. Whether you did the world right, whether you did the other person right by them, whether your purchase didn't reinforce a continueing oppression somewhere in the world.

It's balancing this worry, with the joys you'll have when you realize striving for that global citizenship makes you a happier person overall, despite the hardships. It's that message that I want to share with my students, and I think especially todays material will help me do that.

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We visited the Chutes du Carbet in the national park The place where Colombus went to get some fresh water because in 1493 he noted that in his log. In fact Columbus started the globalization in 1492.It was a beautiful place to visit. Unfortunately following an earthquake in 2004 ,several cubic meters of rock split from the cliff face behind the second cascade.We became aware why a rainforest is called a rainforest. We had a few heavy showers when we went back.

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Quote of the day: At the Global Citizens’ Initiative we say that a “global citizen is someone who identifies with being part of an emerging world community and whose actions contribute to building this community’s values and practices.”

Today we went to Guadeloupe National Park and visited the Chutes du Carbet waterfalls. Unfortunately, there was a lot of rain, but of course it is also called a tropical rainforest. Our session today focused on what it means to be a global citizen. To understand other people, you must first understand how the world looks from different national and cultural perspectives. Later in the day we visited rum distillation. I take part in a Fairtrade project in our school, which deals with the work and living conditions of farmers in developing countries. Now Guadeloupe is not a developing country, but if I look at the differences between the Netherlands and Guadeloupe then you are scared of what a factory looks like here, where farmers live, how a supervisor keeps an eye on everything, the difference between where farmers keep a break and the huge house of the owner on top of the hill. These are things that you don’t come across in the Netherlands so quickly and that you realize how well we are in our country. Employees at such a company sometimes work in the heat for days while we complain that the air conditioning is not cold enough.

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"International learning promotes an appreciation of other cultures. It encourages young peaople to become responsable, global Citizwns, ready to play a positive role in today's society"
Today we were able to go to the Guadalupe National Park. A forest full of vegetation and life. An ecosystem where everything is in harmony. The waterfall majestically presided over the rainforest, but it is no less important than every drop of water that slips between the mold and the roots.
The phrase that I liked the most today has been: think globally acts local. We need to convey to our students that small gestures to change what is around us is fundamental to changing the world

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Accept that you have an obligation in principle towards people in any part of the world.' (Dower, 2002, p.146)

Having read today's material 'A global outlook' I must admit that I feel a bit conflicted. On the one hand the Sustainable Development Project has made me more aware of my carbon footprint and yet here I am in Guadeloupe on a course for which I have had to fly for over ten hours. How's that for a carbon footprint? Has my insatiable appetite for new educational insights gone too far? Is Guadeloupe genuinely the best place to contemplate how best to integrate international/global aims into our school's curriculum? I feel incredibly lucky to be able to experience a completely new culture and scenery but I am sort of wracked with guilt knowing that in my eagerness for new experiences I have forgotten to consider the planet. Goals I had after the sustainable development project seemed to have flown out of the window as soon as an interesting opportunity arose. If we all do what we like without ever properly considering the effect our actions have on the environment and our planet, then what is to become of this world? And these are just examples of tangible actions! What to think of the questions posed on page 31 of this course's booklet? If I were part of a global village consisting of  100 people, in what way would  ... their priorities be different from mine?', and how '... would my priorities look to them?' I can also infer the following question from page 31: does my work matter in the bigger scheme of things? Not only do I feel conflicted, I feel overwhelmed! (With guilt? Shame?) Luckily this feeling does not last long as I might have stumbled upon the point of this course: if anything we should go home feeling that us teachers are on an important mission. I should try to answer the questions from page 31 and once I've sufficiently pondered over them I should impose my students to answer the same questions. Hopefully we will soon be a step closer to thinking and acting like global citizens.

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Today the fifth round of our session we went to the mountains and see the spectacular waterfall( chutes du Carbet) .  In tropical atmosphere of the Caribbean, we stayed for two hours and took lessons about the process of globalization and it's contents and served the global study and education opproach, after that we visited the distillery and process of distillation of sugar cane and making Rhum especial to Goudeloep. It was very nice day.

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Today we went to the waterfalls of Carbet on Basse Terre. There are three cascades in the rainforest, we only visited one of them.

We talked about how human beings interact with nature and about the impact on the environment.

Teaching young people how to live in harmony with their surroundings will help them to become more eco-awared and informed about sustainability.

It also contributes to an appreciation and understanding of other cultures.

I think it is important to encourage young people to become responsable, global citizens.

As a common mantra associated with global citizenship is: " think globally, act locally".

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"Think globally, act locally" that pretty much sums up my thoughts on being a global citizen. There are so many ways in which can help the world we all live in, but we do not always see the results of our own efforts. Just outside the rainforest of the big waterfalls of Guadeloupe we sat together today and talked about global citizenship. I think we can only become global citizen not only by traveling the world and see other cultures and ways of living. We have to make people aware of the world around them and what people can do in their on local community and environment to make a difference. In times of global warming and depletion of natural resources, awareness is the key to let people act local and think global. If you can make people live in a more sustainable way ,for example, people can save money by using solar energy and help in a global matter. This way people are confronted with the results of their own actions, better than donate money to the millionth charity organisation of the year. This seems like just a small step, but only by letting people see the results of their environment actions you can get something done!

We then had a nice little lunch at a local restaurant at the mountainside. On the way back to the hotel we payed a visit to a local rhum distillery, where we got some information about the different kind of rhums being used and drank on Guadeloupe. Very nice to learn about the origins of the drink that got his fame through pirates and Johnny Depp.

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When someone says of himself 'I am a global citizen', he is making some kind of moral claim about the nature and scope of our moral obligations. That is, he accepts that he has oblications in principle towards people in any part of the world (Dower, 2002).

Today we talked about being a global citizen. As in the quote above described we talked about our moral obligations to the world. We discussed topics like fairtrade, sustainable development, climate change and charities. We came to the conclusion that if you want to think globally you have to act locally, like in for example our classrooms. We have to create awareness among our students about being a global citizen by discussing this topics in our lessons or during international projects. During international projects we learn from each others best practices and we can see how they deal with topic in other countries.

During the self study we studied several global  citizenship themes like identy & belonging, sustainable living, fairness & equality, conflict & peace and rights and responsibilities. We learned about the skills and outlooks people need to have to be a succesfull global citizen. I would like delve into the topic of sustainable living during me lessons and projects next year. Today we saw in the rainforest that climate change is changing the composition of species, a simularity we can see in culture.  This day gave me a lot of ideas for my lessons in the future.