9 Social Justice and Global Citizenship Education in Social Work Context: A Case of Caveat Emptor

2021 ◽  
pp. 221-252
Author(s):  
Paul Banahene Adjei
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Work Context ◽  
Caveat Emptor ◽  
Global Citizenship Education

Practitioner perspectives on learning for social change through non-formal global citizenship education

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor J Brown
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Small Individual ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
The Social

This article engages with debates about transformative learning and social change, exploring practitioner perspectives on non-formal education activities run by non-governmental organisations. The research looked at how global citizenship education practitioners met their organisation’s goals of change for social justice through educational activities. This education is sometimes criticised for promoting small individual changes in behaviour, which do not ultimately lead to the social justice to which it pertains to aim. Findings suggest that this non-formal education aims to provide information from different perspectives and generate critical reflection, often resulting in shifts in attitudes and behaviour. While the focus is often on small actions, non-formal spaces opened up by such education allow for networks to develop, which are key for more collective action and making links to social movements. Although this was rarely the focus of these organisations, it was these steps, often resulting from reflection as a group on personal actions, which carried potentially for social change.

scholarly journals Enacting Critical Citizenship: An Intersectional Approach to Global Citizenship Education

Societies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Maayke de Vries
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Black Feminists ◽  
Critical Interpretation

Global citizenship is a popular concept that was fully embraced by UNESCO in 2015 with a framework for Global Citizenship Education (GCE). This pedagogical guidance can be characterized as transformative since it aims to foster reflective citizens who contribute to building a more inclusive, just, and peaceful world. Thus, GCE allows educators to take a critical approach to their teaching, hereby articulating a clear social justice orientation towards citizenship education. However, recent studies indicate that most interpretations and thus implementations of GCE do not translate into a social action approach. Therefore, this article conceptualizes an intersectional approach to GCE, to make a critical approach of GCE more likely by practitioners. Intersectionality was developed by Black feminists in the US, to highlight structural oppressions and privileges on the basis of analytical categories. Intersectionality, furthermore, allows for opportunities to recognize resilience and resistance in marginalized communities. Therefore, an intersectional approach to GCE would develop sensibilities among students to understand global structures of oppression and domination on the basis of analytical categories like race, gender, and class. This knowledge would lead to an awareness of one’s own complicity and shared responsibility, resulting in deliberations and eventually political actions. The overall aim is to provide practitioners with a concrete suggestion of a critical interpretation of GCE, to show its potential as a social justice-orientated framework for educators in especially continental Europe.

Global citizenship education: A new ‘moral pedagogy’ for the 21st century?

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 506-524
Author(s):  
Sara Franch
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
International Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Educational Discourse ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
International Education Policy ◽  
Moral Structure

In the past two decades global citizenship education (GCE) has become established in national and international education policy. This article focuses on the emergence of GCE in the educational discourse of the Province of Trento in northern Italy and outlines how policymakers and teachers construct GCE as a pedagogical framework for schooling in the 21st century. Combining the perspectives that emerge from the scholarly literature with the findings of a qualitative study based on Constructivist and Informed Grounded Theory, the article proposes a typology of GCE ideal-types. The typology illustrates two ‘mainstream ideal-types’ of GCE (neo-liberal human capitalism and cosmopolitan humanism) and two ‘critical ideal-types’ (social-justice activism and critical counter practice). In the province studied, the dominant perspective is cosmopolitan humanism. GCE is essentially conceptualised as a ‘new moral pedagogy’ that reflects adherence and commitment to a universal moral structure based on humanistic cosmopolitan values. The author believes that critical GCE perspectives in line with social-justice activism and critical counter practice should find expression in both policies, curricula and practices. However, this is recognised as a challenge which could be partially addressed through teacher education and an alliance between academia and practice.

scholarly journals Rethinking adult learning and education as global citizenship education: A conceptual model with implications for policy, practice and further research

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcella Milana ◽  
Massimiliano Tarozzi
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Citizenship Skills

This article provides a conceptual analysis of the two domains of global citizenship education and adult education and learning, along with their similarities and differences. It begins by unpacking the ambiguous and contested concept of global citizenship education and proposing a critical vision of it, within a global social justice framework. Against this backdrop, the article argues for re-conceptualizing adult education and learning as global citizenship education, instead of considering the latter to be one of the key issues of the former. Their structural link is grounded in their common epistemological nature. The domains are interlocked to the extent that both (1) promote active citizenship skills, (2) strive towards equality and social justice on a global level and (3) adopt a values-based approach and promote transformative learning. In conclusion, an original ‘Four-dimensions approach to adult education and learning as global citizenship education’ conceptual model is advanced potentially to inform policymakers, practitioners and researchers. The model is made up of four basic components of adult education and learning as global citizenship education, namely: aims and scope (what for), contents and skills (what), processes and pedagogies (how), actors and learning environments (who).

scholarly journals Editorial: Technologization of Global Citizenship Education as Response to Challenges of Globalization

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. i-vii
Author(s):  
Anatoli Rapoport
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
Economic Exchanges

Cultural, linguistic, and economic exchanges between communities, including nations, are as old as civilization itself, but only recently did such exchanges receive an appropriate and universally recognized name: globalization. Naming the process caused a significant shift in how globalization came to be perceived, and it has become an important issue in political agendas, economic policies, and cultural aspirations. In other words, globalization helped shape and refine debates about global interconnections and interdependence, universality of human rights, and the importance of economic and social justice.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document