On Tuesday, 8.10.2024, the 10th graders of our school took part in the 25th Berlin Development Education Programme (benbi) as part of their geography lessons. The pupils were able to take part in the workshops coordinated by KATE e.V., which were offered by numerous non-governmental organisations and educational speakers at the FEZ. In the first round of workshops, which took place at class level, the pupils focussed, for example, on injustices in tourism. They made connections between privileges, discrimination and travelling to countries in the Global South and worked out connections to racism and colonial continuities. At the end, they developed approaches on how to act before, during and after travelling. In the second round of workshops, they worked with pupils from other Berlin schools on topics such as fast fashion and social media or climate change and displacement. The benbi was an ideal platform for our pupils to integrate education for sustainable development and to work together on solutions to global challenges that are difficult to develop in the weekly one-hour geography lesson. A. Müller (FB Geo)
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