This critical literacy training will support you as you equip your learners with the skills to analyse texts and media critically, recognising power dynamics, biases, and perspectives.
Upcoming Course Dates:
CDEC is delivering this course with Westmorland and Furness Council on
- Tuesday 5th May 2026 // 1pm - 4pm // J36 Rural Auction Centre, Crooklands, Milnthorpe LA7 7FP
Places for this course can be booked via your school’s SLA account – log in here
If you have any issues accessing SLA, please email the School Development Team at school.development@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk
CDEC is also delivering this course in an open session on
- Monday 18th May 2026 // 1pm - 4pm // CDEC offices, Low Nook, Rydal Road, Ambleside LA22 9BB
Places for this course booked by filling in this short form
As a Global Learning Education provider, CDEC is committed to supporting young people to be active global citizens. Global Citizenship describes a sense of belonging to a larger global community. It is about recognising that every person is a citizen of the world and that we all have responsibilities to each other and to our planet.
It’s about understanding and appreciating diverse cultures, perspectives and ways of life and the need to be better informed and engaged in both local and global issues - working together with others to help build a better world for everyone.
This course will give you the skills, understanding and resources to empower your pupils and students to think critically and thoughtfully, to see multiple perspectives and have the skills to interpret information that is harmful.
Outcomes:
- To increase your ability to understand and critique the knowledge base and key concepts associated with education for a just and sustainable world (global learning)
- To be able to identify a range of different perspectives, and question the assumptions behind them
- To enhance your understanding of approaches to learning which promote critical literacy and how to develop the skills to engage in respectful discourse and action in your pupils/students
- To be able to incorporate global learning in the curriculum and include critical thinking activities to measure changes in attitudes of your pupils in relation to local and global issues
- To increase your confidence and understanding of how to promote informed, active global citizenship
From The DfE's 'Keeping Children Safe In Education 2025:
134. ‘It is essential that children are safeguarded from potentially harmful and inappropriate online material.’
135. The breadth of issues classified within online safety is considerable and ever evolving, but can be categorised into 4 areas of risk:
- Content - being exposed to illegal, inappropriate, or harmful content, for example: pornography, racism, misogyny, self-harm, suicide, antisemitism, radicalisation, extremism, misinformation, disinformation (including fake news) and conspiracy theories
- Contact - being subjected to harmful online interaction with other users; for example: peer to peer pressure, commercial advertising and adults posing as children or young adults with the intention to groom or exploit them for sexual, criminal, financial or other purposes
- Conduct - online behaviour that increases the likelihood of, or causes, harm; for example, making, sending and receiving explicit images (e.g. consensual and non-consensual sharing of nudes and semi-nudes and/or pornography, sharing other explicit images and online bullying
- Commerce - risks such as online gambling, inappropriate advertising, phishing and or financial scams. If you feel your pupils, students or staff are at risk, please report it to the Anti-Phishing Working Group.
2026 Course Dates:
CDEC is delivering this course with Westmorland and Furness Council on
- Tuesday 5th May 2026 // 1pm - 4pm // J36 Rural Auction Centre, Crooklands, Milnthorpe LA7 7FP
Places for this course can be booked via your school’s SLA account – log in here
If you have any issues accessing SLA, please email the School Development Team at school.development@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk
CDEC is also delivering this course in an open session on
- Monday 18th May 2026 // 1pm - 4pm // CDEC offices, Low Nook, Rydal Road, Ambleside LA22 9BB