Currently, China has shown a strong stance towards advocating for global solidarity and strengthening its engagement with global society, which is evident by the “Belt and Road Initiative” along with President Xi’s proposal for building a “Community of Shared Future for Mankind”. Meanwhile, the government strives to maintain its national identity and cultural heritage. China’s struggles with this issue reflect the fact that Chinese culture and Confucian values are an important point of reference when framing global citizenship understanding.
Two presentations based on current doctoral research:
Ziyuan Wang explores the impact of Chinese students’ study abroad experiences in the UK on their understanding and practice of global citizenship, thereby forming global citizens with Chinese characteristics.
Enze Guo explores the reframing of Global Citizenship (GC) through the lens of Confucian values and Chinese characteristics, focusing on how university EFL teachers in China perceive GC
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12/12/2024
This session, part of a series looking at DERC-related Doctoral research, shares findings from a case study that explored influences of Ontario-based global competency frameworks on teacher candidates’ understanding and practice of global citizenship education during their pre-service programme. While the frameworks are populated with discursive orientations that emphasize skills for the global marketplace and distract attention from global issues and content, the study also indicates how the agentic dimensions of teacher candidates variably reject, revise and/or re-imagine global competency in ways that contribute to the development of critical reflective teaching practice. The findings indicate a need for ongoing research that centres teachers’ educational archives and social identities as ever present in policy enactment.
SPEAKER
David Montemurro is an Associate Professor, at the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
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11/28/2024
Examining the intersection of teaching and global learning: a review of international literature by DERC alumnus Giannis Efthymiou.
Giannis will reflect on the roots of this intersection and the importance of taking these into account across contemporary debates.
Despite the significant interest in the area during the last years, there is scarce evidence that actively considers teachers’ reality when seeking to examine this intersection.
Biesta-ean theory that reflects on ‘teachers’ educational wisdom’ influences Giannis' thinking in terms of the intersection of teaching and global learning. This webinar applies to those that seek to examine alternative possibilities for conceptualising this intersection, as well as embedding global learning in practice.
SPEAKER: Dr Giannis Efthymiou
Senior Lecturer in Education and the Director of Initial Teacher Education at the Department of Education, Brunel University London
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11/13/2024
A short online event that brings together educators, students, researchers and policymakers to launch 'The Case for Global Learning', an important call from more than 30 UK educational organisations for the UK government to take swift and meaningful action to promote and support the use of Global Learning approaches in UK schools and universities, to bring the UK back to the forefront of the practice of this transformational educational approach.
Date: July 18 2024
Find out more at bit.ly/Case4GL
Speakers:
Professor Doug Bourn, a lead member of the coalition from the IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education & Society
Mick Waters, a former head teacher who widely consults on the development of teaching approaches and curriculum, and former Director of Curriculum for England; Karen Smale, Head of Religious Studies at Upton by Chester High School;
Laura Young, an award winning climate activist, environmental scientist, sustainability educator, and ethical influencer.
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7/19/2024
This session, part of the DERC webinar series, sees Elisabeth Barratt Hacking (University of Bath) explore and critique the International Baccalaureate's concept of 'International Mindedness,' one of many contemporary forms of global education.
International mindedness is a concept particular to the International Baccalaureate (IB), a worldwide educational organisation. It can be described as an ideal, a concept and as practice and foundational to the IB mission.
This seminar explores the IB’s particular approach to global education, that is, how International mindedness is conceptualised and practiced. Whilst most would see the ideal of becoming internationally minded as desirable, it is nevertheless a complex and contested concept.
Chaired by Professor Doug Bourn.
SPEAKER
Elisabeth Barratt Hacking, Head of the Department of Education at the University of Bath
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6/4/2024
Global Learning MA alumnus Joseph Griffiths discusses the experience and impact of undertaking this unique online programme.
Full information: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/taught-degrees/global-learning-ma
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5/23/2024
This webinar sees students on DERC's Global Learning MA presenting exciting new research they have conducted.
The MA in Global Learning is a distance learning programme which introduces students to a range of perspectives and approaches to global learning, global citizenship education and education for sustainable development.
Speakers
Exploring how Chinese high school students prepare for overseas study through intercultural engagement and global citizenship education - Xiaqiu (Sophy) Li
Developing Global Citizenship in international schools: A Model United Nations case study - Thom Gibbs
Chair: Professor Doug Bourn, Director of DERC
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3/20/2024
This webinar, part of the DERC webinar series, will see Matthew Hayes explore how Global Citizenship Education (GCE) can be practically assessed and why that matters.
Matthew's research examines the integration of GCE into English Language Teaching (ELT) textbooks used in UAE secondary schools. This includes the adaptation of GCE to autocratic contexts and the design of a framework to develop and assess GCE.
He will then demonstrate how he embedded that framework into a portfolio platform for youth citizenship, Citizens, which has received Innovate UK funding to codesign with teenagers and prototype.
This session will be particularly useful for global citizenship researchers, especially those looking into K12 or ELT contexts, PhD students interested in translating their research into a social enterprise, and secondary school teachers.
Chair: DERC Director Doug Bourn
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3/20/2024