UG students in international online course for social change

The participating UG students

Twelve University of Guyana students in a group of 75 international peers are undergoing a six-week online course to gain knowledge and expertise in the global education topics that they will be facilitating in local secondary schools, according to press release from One World Youth Project(OWYP).

They will be focusing on  topics such as global interconnectedness, cross-cultural dialogue and addressing global issues on the local level as well as how to teach these topics in a classroom.  The course includes a series of filmed interviews with professors and experts from each of these fields.

The international education non-profit organization, OWYP, which is based in Washington D.C. this past month has been training university students in Georgetown and in the U.S. as well as in