Interdependence

Pupils learn that actions, choices and decisions taken locally can have an impact globally and similarly actions, choices and decisions taken elsewhere may have an impact on our lives.

Extract from the DfES document Developing the global dimension in the school curriculum:

Understanding how people, places, economies and environments are all inextricably interrelated, and that choices and events have repercussions on a global scale.

This can include:

• understanding the impact of globalisation and that choices made have consequences at different levels, from personal to global;
• appreciating the links between the lives of others and children’s and young people’s own lives;
• understanding the influence that diverse cultures and ideas (political, social, religious, economic, legal, technological and scientific) have on each other and appreciating the complexity of interdependence;
• understanding how the world is a global community and what it means to be a citizen;
• understanding how actions, choices and decisions taken in the UK can impact positively or negatively on the quality of life of people in other countries.

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