Development Education wall sheets and wall sheet packs

Title

Development Education wall sheets and wall sheet packs

Shelfmark

MS. Oxfam DEV/7/2/1

Summary

Comprises:

Folded wall-sheets by the Oxford Comittee for Famine Relief, 1959. The two sheets include photographs, maps and cartoon, with a letter on the reverse for teachers. Titles comprising:

'The Story and Human Meaning of the Greatest Migration of People in History', with a letter from Jack Longland, of Derbyshire Education Committee

'The Drama of the Forgotten People', with a letter from Gilbert Murray

Also comprises 'Classroom project folders (primary)', n.d. [c. 1963]. Two series of three folders issued in collaboration with the Unesco Gift Coupon Programme include photographs and activities around six children, comprising:

[First series]: 'Inti and Bolivia', 'Dithebe and Bechuanaland', and 'Yanni and Greece'

Second series: 'Ali and Gaza', 'Gopal and India' and 'Kim and Korea'

Also comprises:

Thabo wallcharts, n.d. [c. mid 1960s]. A series of three wallcharts with cut-outs produced for seven to ten year olds. Thabo's nationality is not stated but he is described as an African child, in an Oxfam publications catalogue, n.d. [c. 1966]. Comprising: 'What makes Thabo grow', 'What makes Thabo's village grow' and 'What makes Thabo's country grow'.

Pictorial discussion sheets for young secondary students, 1972, 1981-1982 and n.d. [c. 1972 and late 1970s-early 1980s] comprising:

'Hunger and malnutrition', 1972

'Water', 1972

'Disease', n.d. [c. 1972]

'Food and agriculture', n.d. [c. 1972] and [revised edition], n.d. [c. late 1970s]

'The population explosion', n.d. [c. 1972]

'Unemployment', n.d. [c. 1972]

'What is Oxfam?'

'Where has all the food gone?', n.d. [c.early 1980s]

'Healthy, wealthy and wise', n.d. [c. early 1980s]

'Water, water everywhere..', n.d. [c. early 1980s]

'Population - whose problem?', n.d. [c. early 1980s] and [revised edition], 1982

'Farming for people or for profit?', 1981

'Land, poverty and power', 1982

'Work and wealth', 1982

'Oxfam and the Environment', n.d. [c.1987]. A folded wallchart with examples of Oxfams' work , designed for young people to conincide with television programmes about the 'Brundtland Report' [also known as 'Our Common Environment' and produced by the the United Nations, 1987]

Topic pack series issued by Junior Education, 1989-1991. Two packs comprising:

'Where Does Our Food Come From?', 1989, produced with Oxfam and Christian Aid

'Living in a Community', 1991, sponsored by Oxfam

Also comprises country background sheets, produced by Oxfam Information, 1991. These are a series of nineteen folded wallsheets with basic details about various countries, using statistics from UNICEF and other sources.

Date

1959-1991 and n.d. [c.1963-c.1987]

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (7 folders)