One World

Nibnu Dinja Wahda, or Making One World, is an education pack on development and the environment. It was produced by the North South Centre of the Council of Europe and translated and adapted to Maltese by ECO as part of the IV Ecological Summit organised in 1996.

Campaign Objectives
The aims of Making One World are to encourage students to think about ecology in a wider spectrum, to develop an awareness about the relation between development and the environment, to guide students in developing an inquisitive mind in order to examine problems from perspectives other than their own, and to encourage active participation in personal change on a local level as well as to insist on the need for international co-operation

Campaign Objectives

The aims of Making One World are to encourage students to think about ecology in a wider spectrum, to develop an awareness about the relation between development and the environment, to guide students in developing an inquisitive mind in order to examine problems from perspectives other than their own, and to encourage active participation in personal change on a local level as well as to insist on the need for international co-operation

The themes in each unit relate the environment with sustainable development. The first unit deals with issues pertaining to industrialized countries, normally called The North. The rest of the units examine issues of less developed countries usually called The Third World or The South.

*Themes dealt with in this pack*
Life Style	The relationship between consumption, development and the environment
Identifying a Problem	Priority was given to poverty, different levels of action
Debt	Social and environmental consequences to the Third World
Hunger	The dilemmas of intensive production on a large scale
War	The effect of war on people and the environment
Relationships	Between man and the natural world; respect towards local wisdom; respect towards nature
Mass Media	The effect of Mass Media on culture and lifestyle

The pack includes a teacher's manual, a set of activity sheets and 8 full color posters, which accompany the activity sheets.

The teaching method used is didactic, that is students are encouraged to examine issues by means of simulation games, role-plays, matching & ranking exercises, discussions and investigation.

This tool is aimed primarily towards students aged between 10 and 14 years of age however most of the material can be adapted to younger and older students.
It is intended as a cross-curricular tool but can also be used in Personal and Social Education classes. It can be used on its own or in conjunction with the TV programme ONE WORLD.

The One World TV programme is available at the Ministry for the Environment, Public Relations Section (Tel.:247538).

ECO, The Malta Ecological Foundation, P.O. Box 322, Valletta CMR 01, Malta.
Fax: +356 338780 Email: [email protected]

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