scholarly journals Narrating Humanity : Children's Literature and Global Citizenship Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Aliona Yarova
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Philosophical Standpoint ◽  
History Of ◽  
Child Reader ◽  
Rights Issues

The aim of this thesis is to explore how children’s magic realist fiction contributes to critical Global Citizenship Education (GCE). This study argues that children’s magic realist literature can facilitate young readers’ knowledge and understanding of human rights issues and promote environmental awareness in a non-didactic manner by representing global issues from non-human perspectives. The thesis comprises four articles. The first study explores the non-human perspective of an animalhuman ‘cyborg’ protagonist in Peter Dickinson’s novel Eva (1988). The study shows how the non-human perspective allows the reader to go beyond anthropocentric boundaries in order to explore the issue of treating the other. The second study investigates an animal perspective on the Roma genocide along with the mistreatment of animals in the Second World War in Sonya Hartnett’s The Midnight Zoo (2010). The animal perspective shows human intolerance of other humans (the Roma) intertwined with human actions towards animals and encourages the reader in a non-didactic way to adopt an eco-philosophical standpoint. The third study is concerned with the representation of the Holocaust from the point of view of a supernatural narrator, Death, in Marcus Zusak’s The Book Thief (2005). Death’s inverted magic realist narrative facilitates the young reader’s understanding of human rights issues and represents the history of the genocide in a non-didactic manner. The fourth study examines the relationships between humans and the natural environment shown from the non-human perspective of a tree. Taking the lens of holistic ecology, this study explores the representation of human – nature relationships in Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls (2011) and how the novel guides the child-reader towards an awareness of environmental issues.

scholarly journals Global Citizenship Education and Human Rights in Scottish education: An analysis of education policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J Daniels
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
Scottish Government

Recently, doubt has been cast on the ability of Scottish education to meet relevant Human Rights requirements relating to education. This article will outline both a means of clarification for international requirements for Human Rights Education, and an analysis of documentation outlining Scottish educational policy for compatibility with these requirements. In doing so, this article will outline the development, and application, of a tool for document analysis focused on international requirements for Human Rights Education. The findings of this analysis suggest a number of key limitations in the current approach favoured by the Scottish Government. This approach posits Global Citizenship Education as a cross-curricular theme capable of fulfilling obligations in relation to rights in Curriculum for Excellence. I suggest that there is a distinct lack of support for the Human Rights Education requirements relating to the inclusion of taught content about human rights and that problems of apoliticality and the misguided focus on responsibilities all stand as significant barriers to Global Citizenship Education meeting the aims of Human Rights Education. I argue, on this basis, that the strategy currently adopted in Scotland appears to fall short of meeting basic international requirements for Human Rights Education.

Promoting Global Citizenship Education in Language Programs

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 183-196
Author(s):  
Hind Aljuaid
Keyword(s):  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
Pedagogical Tools ◽  
Language Programs ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizens ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Mind Set

This paper will discuss tools and methods of how to integrate global citizenship education in language programs to facilitate students’ knowledge and development as responsible global citizens. Developing global citizens requires a theoretical foundation, applied learning, and identification of transferrable skills. The paper will provide students and educators with the necessary tools for fostering cross-cultural knowledge, global issues and mind-set to become culturally conscious participants in a global community. The paper will discuss how these teaching practices can be developed alongside disciplinary learning goals in language courses and course content within the curriculum. Finally, the paper will discuss the implications of implementing these practices for language programs and how they will help in understanding how students enact the idea of fostering global competency and deciphering pedagogical tools that lead students to meaningful learning and engagement.

Global Citizenship Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 464-480
Author(s):  
Christoph Wulf
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Peace Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
World Community ◽  
Heritage Education

Abstract Global Citizenship Education. Building a Planetary World Community in the Anthropocene In the Anthropocene, what do we mean by global citizenship education, what do we mean by building a planetary world community? The paper explores these questions and uses the example of education for sustainable development, heritage education, human rights education, and peace education to show how a sense of belonging to the global community can be created. It also develops numerous viewpoints that play an important role in achieving a planetary consciousness.

scholarly journals Urgency of Civic Education in the Global Context (Human Rights) in South Africa and Hong Kong

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-15
Author(s):  
Febi Fadilah
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Rights Issues

Citizenship education exists because the problems that occur in society. The urgency of citizenship education is very important due to global issue of human rights that occur in South Africa and Hong Kong. The purpose of this article is to show how we can see the urgency of citizenship education in the context of global issues (Human Rights) in South Africa and Hong Kong both theoretically and factually. This research uses descriptive qualitative method by seeking some information from 15 national indexed journal, documentation and some other sources that support the research objectives and metaanalysing to get critical and valid research. The results of this study says that citizenship education has an important role viewed by historically and empirically in minimizing human rights issues, society have an erudation of their country and participate in understanding of universal citizenship to face global challenges. Keywords: citizenship education, urgency, humas rights issues, South Africa, Hong Kong ABSTRAK Pendidikan kewarganegaraan hadir karena permasalahan yang terjadi dalam kehidupan masyarakat disuatu negara. Pendidikan kewarganegaraa sangat penting untuk meminimalisir permasalahan isu global HAM yang terjadi di Afrika Selatan dan Hong Kong. Tujuan dari artikel ini adalah untuk mengkaji lebih dalam urgensi pendidikan kewarganegaraan dalam konteks isu global (HAM) di Afrika Selatan dan Hong Kong baik secara teoritis maupun faktual. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode literatur review dengan cara mencari beberapa informasi dari 15 jurnal terindeks nasional yang relevan dan beberapa sumber-sumber lain yang mendukung tercapainya tujuan penelitian. Kemudian dilakukan analisis data agar mendapatkan hasil penelitian yang kritis dan valid. Hasil penulisan menunjukkan bahwa Pendidikan kewarganegaraan memiliki peranan yang sangat penting jika ditinjau secara historis dan empiris dalam meminimalisir permasalahan HAM yang terjadi di Negara Afrika Selatan dan Hong Kong, dimana masyarakat paham terhadap hak dan kewajibannya sebagai warganegara, memiliki pemahaman kewarganegaraan yang universal dalam menjawab tantangan global, dan mampu mengimplementasikannya dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Kata kunci: pendidikan kewarganegaraan, urgensi, isu HAM, Afrika Selatan, Hong Kong

scholarly journals Decolonial options and foreclosures for global citizenship education and education for sustainable development

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Pashby ◽  
Louise Sund
Keyword(s):  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Global Learning ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Upper Secondary

This article builds from scholarship in Environmental and Sustainability Education and Critical Global Citizenship Education calling for more explicit attention to how teaching global issues is embedded in the colonial matrix of power (Mignolo, 2018). It reports on findings from a study with secondary and upper secondary school teachers in England, Finland, and Sweden who participated in workshops drawing on the HEADSUP (Andreotti, 2012) tool which specifies seven repeated and intersecting historical patterns of oppression often reproduced through global learning initiatives. Teachers reacted to and discussed the tool and considered how it might be applied in their practice. The paper reviews two of the key findings: a) the relationship between formal and nonformal global education and mediation of mainstream charity discourses, and b) emerging evidence of how national policy culture and context influence teachers’ perceptions in somewhat surprising ways.  

scholarly journals KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ATTITUDES OF MALAYSIAN STUDENT ON GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 426-437
Author(s):  
Hamidah Yusof ◽  
Mohd Asri Mohd Noor ◽  
Mahaliza Mansor ◽  
Jamal Yunus
Keyword(s):  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Multiple Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Global Citizens ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
The Relationship

Student’s perception on the current global citizenship education might have evolved. This study aims to identify the level of knowledge, skills, and attitudes of global citizenship from students’ perceptions. It also examined the relationship between students’ knowledge with the skills and attitudes of global citizenship. This study involved 155 first semester students in a public university in Malaysia. The selection of these respondents is to get their views on the education of global citizenship they received at schools. They were chosen because they had just finished secondary schools, and their experiences were still fresh in memory. They also came from various schools in Malaysia and able to draw on the experience of global citizenship education in Malaysia. This study was quantitative and used a questionnaire as the research instrument. The findings show that the level of knowledge, skills, and attitudes of students towards global citizenship is at a moderate level. The relationship between knowledge, skill, and attitude towards global citizenship is high, positive, and significant. The multiple linear regression analysis showed that skill and attitude are the predictors for the knowledge in the students. This study implies that global citizenship education is important to equip students to understand global issues and become global citizens.

scholarly journals Practical implementation of global citizenship education at the Slovak University of Agriculture

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-77
Author(s):  
Anna Mravcová
Keyword(s):  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Development Education ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
New Perspective

Global citizenship is still a relatively new concept concerned mainly with the growing prominence of global and development education issues. The importance of this phenomenon is increasing in the area of education, which must be able to respond to the interconnection and interdependency of the current world. There is an effort to support implementation of global issues in the educational process at all its levels, including higher education where the unsatisfactory situation is most visible. Global citizenship is one of the fundamental pillars of global education. Its aim is to show citizenship from a new perspective. It provides information and knowledge about the modern diversified world where each diversity has its own place and importance, and about the problems that have been expanding worldwide. It should bring people to the understanding that they are part of a global entity and so everyone should accept their place and role in it. For this purpose people have to be educated. Therefore, global citizenship education should form an integral part of educational processes at all levels today. The aim of this paper is to present the current situation of global citizenship education and the process of implementation and emphasizing global citizenship at Slovak University of Agriculture, mainly through the critical analyses of the current situation in this field in Slovakia, and selected activities.

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