Developing a global dimension in the curriculum

Jaya Graves trained as a Rudolph Steiner teacher. She also worked extensively with the peace movement through the 1970s and 80s. She is now co‐ordinator of Southern Voices, a small organization in Manchester committed to presenting views, perspectives and voices of people from Southern or ‘developing’ countries in different contexts where development education (DE) is practised and ‘developing’ issues are discussed. Implicit in this aim is the understanding that many ‘developing’ countries are ‘root cultures’ to children in an intercultural society. An understanding of ‘developing’ countries and issues will, therefore, help us understand our own society as well as the world in which we live.