Exploring the Process of Teaching Professionalism Through on-site Teacher Education: A Case of Global Citizenship Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-64
Author(s):  
Aekyung Park ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfredo Gomes Dias ◽  
Antonio Ernesto Gómez Rodríguez ◽  
Antoni Santisteban ◽  
Joan Pagès Blanch

Author(s):  
Jordi Castellví Mata

El concepto de educación para la ciudadanía es tremendamente complejo, más si le añadimos el término ‘global’. Por este motivo, hablar de educación para la ciudadanía global (ECG) no basta para para situar al lector -ya sea estudiante, docente o académico- puesto que hay múltiples ideas e interpretaciones de lo que EGC significa. Las personas y los estados lo interpretan o lo enfocan de formas diferentes, ya sea por motivos epistemológicos, históricos, culturales, ideológicos o económicos. El libro reseñado aborda esta complejidad des de la perspectiva de la formación del profesorado, un debate que se hace necesario en los procesos de transformación educativa y social, puesto que sabemos que los cambios suelen darse a través de la formación inicial, en un proceso lento pero que puede conseguir resultados que realmente supongan un avance cultural y educativo significativo. El libro se estructura en forma de manual y, aunque sus editores son los profesores Schugurensky y Wolhunter de la Arizona State University (USA) y de la Noth-West University (Sudáfrica) respectivamente, este está escrito en colaboración con más de treinta académicos de catorce países distintos. En este sentido, el manual tiene por objetivo intentar explicar a qué se refiere el mundo cuando habla de ECG en la formación del profesorado, teniendo en cuenta múltiples ideas y puntos de vista. Se estructura en catorce capítulos de los cuales la primera mitad (capítulos 1 – 6) tienen un enfoque más teórico mientras que la segunda mitad (capítulos 7 – 14) tienen un enfoque más práctico, sin dejar de ser ensayos sobre el estado de la cuestión de la ECG en la formación de maestros.


Author(s):  
Kumari Ekanayake ◽  
Mohd Shukri ◽  
Ali Khatibi ◽  
S. M. Ferdeous Azam

Global Citizenship Education (GCE) is considered as the core purpose of education at all levels in this contemporary world by the global educational scholars. It is the education which focuses to generate empathetic world citizens with multiple coping skills, conducive to function instantly with the challenges and opportunities they encounter in the current world. This scenario demands innovations in teacher education to make the teachers competent in delivering such education to their students. This study intends to identify the relationship between global citizenship education and teacher education based on the literature review.


2020 ◽  
pp. 002248712092025
Author(s):  
Marta Estellés ◽  
Gustavo E. Fischman

Given the seemingly ever-increasing scholarly production about the ideas and ideals of global citizenship education (GCE), it is not surprising those discussions started to gain influence in teacher education (TE) debates. In this study, we examine the discourses that tacitly shape the meanings of GCE within the contemporary academic literature on TE. After analyzing the peer-reviewed scholarship published from 2003 to 2018, we identified patterns in how GCE for TE was described and defended, beyond the differences in their conceptual frameworks. The dominant trend found is to frame GCE as a redemptive educational solution to global problems. This framing requires teachers to embrace a redemptive narrative following a model of rationality based on altruistic, hyperrationalized and overly romanticized ideals. Ultimately, TE literature contributes to the configuration of an excessively naïve discourse that tends to ignore the neoliberal context in which both GCE and TE take place today.


2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Howe

Teachers and teacher educators play increasingly important roles in creating successful futures for both individuals and society in light of globalization, increasing diversity, and growing interdependency.  Within the dialectic of global and local, opportunities now for transformational learning, fostering social justice and global citizenship are unprecedented.  However, global citizenship education (GCE) that explores different conceptual, theoretical, and methodological considerations of decolonizing citizenship education in practice remains a challenge for teachers.  Thus, this paper describes pedagogies of GCE within pre-service teacher education classes and high schools in Japan.  Furthermore, transcultural stories of several teachers are shared.  The research reported here is based on over two decades of experience as a teacher educator in Canada and Japan.  There is a paucity of long-term research on teachers’ reflections and experiences as they attempt to integrate GCE into their teaching, captured through personal narrative and story.  Furthermore, due to a Western hegemony of knowledge, Eurocentric education, neo-colonialism, and neoliberal/conservative agendas in higher education, the voices of others outside North America are rarely heard.  The research presented here attempts to fill this gap.  This paper investigates these issues and teachers’ personal practical and professional knowledge through narratives of transcultural journeys.


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