This is a short survey to explain a little more about why you want to join EduSpots' new EduCitizens Community!
What is the EduCitizens Community?
This is a light-touch community of practice, aiming to bring together teachers and wider education practitioners with a deep interest in the question of: how can we promote active local and global citizenship behaviours, skills and attitudes, through education? Beyond this broad question, we intend the participants to shape the direction of the group, based on their interests.
What will it involve?
1. Meeting once a month online for a session that will involve individuals within the group and wider practitioners sharing their ideas with dialogue and collaboration within the group.
2. Depending on interest, we may also set up a WhatsApp channel to allow members to connect and share ideas, opportunities and resources.
What kind of citizenship education?
We understand that this area of education has a broad scope and embeds in diverse forms within schools and communities. For example, concepts of citizenship and global understanding are nestled within community action, partnerships development, PSHE, geography, charity projects, environmental awareness, values, history, philosophy, ethics, and so many more areas!
We have a particular interest in critical forms of citizenship education that explore how concepts of power, agency and ethics can shape learning outcomes, whilst enabling students to develop a deep ability to understand their own cultural and social positioning and engage effectively in dialogue with youth from diverse local and global backgrounds, entering empathy in the process.
On this journey, EduSpots also hope to gain participants' input into the development of their new online course platform which have previously focused on charitable ethics, postcolonial thinking and intercultural understanding. The redevelopment of these courses being funded by the UNESCO Youth for Peace initiative - Cat Davison (CEO/Founder, EduSpots, coordinating this group) has been selected as one of 50 global fellows for UNESCO's 2025 Intercultural Leadership Programme, and aims to embed insight from this programme into this community.
Your input and ideas could therefore feed into an education initiative that could reach thousands of learners of all ages in the years ahead.
What does EduSpots do more widely?
EduSpots alongside over 400 local educational change makers named 'Catalysts' to ignite future-ready education across 50 communities through spaces named 'Spots', through a deeply community-rooted and participatory model, involving co-curricular clubs and digital tools. Inspired by the local Catalysts that mentor them, the youth named 'Sparks' emulate their actions, becoming the Catalysts of change.
The network is currently rooted in Ghana and Kenya, with plans for a wider global reach in the years ahead. The ultimate vision of EduSpots is one of promoting active citizenship through an assets based approach to community development: enabling communities to unite to create the futures they want to see, through education. See www.eduspots.org for more information!
Next steps!
We have 30 places to ensure that this group isn't too large; thanks for sharing a little about your ideas and experience below! Please complete this short survey by Monday 22nd September 2025.
Any questions? Email Cat Davison at cdavison@eduspots.org
