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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
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
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
This DERC webinar brings together 3 students of DERC's MA Global Learning (Michael Jones, Kathryn Abell, Tessa Oakley) to present dissertation projects that they are conducting as part of their studies.
Background
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. The programme is coordinated and run by staff from the Development Education Research Centre and is the only Masters’ programme in the UK that focuses exclusively on these important areas of educational theory and practice.
The event will be Chaired by Doug Bourn, Director of the Development Education Research Centre
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3/10/2023
A second research webinar to introduce and celebrate further research studies produced through the Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning Practitioner Research Fund - an initiative to support research by educators on a global learning and/ or school partnerships theme running 2019-2022.
Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning was a global education programme for schools running from 2018-2021, delivered by the British Council in partnership with the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.
Presentations
Jen Ager: Looking through both lenses: exploring long term school partnerships from the perspectives of both Cumbrian and Tanzanian teachers.
Collete Cotton: Exploring a Multi-Country Partnership Through a 'Zero Waste' project.
Keri Reid: A global partnership from the perspective of the Southern school: Perceptions, pedagogies, and the power of love.
Alyson Meredith: A study exploring the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on overseas school partnerships.
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11/24/2022
Douglas Bourn, Professor of Development Education at UCL, has authored a new book on education for social change.
The book introduces debates about education for social change, including a review of historical themes around democracy, liberation and socialism.
Key theorists are introduced throughout the book including bell hooks, Dewey, Giroux, Gramsci, and Freire.
To mark the publication of this new work, Doug Bourn leads a discussion that will explore the themes covered in the book.
Discussants:
Professor Tania Ramalho (State University of New York)
Dr Namrata Sharma (State University of New York)
Susan Kambalu (CAFOD)
Alison Hooper (Egerton Primary School)
The event is chaired by Liam Wegimont, Director of Global Education Network Europe.
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2/10/2022
This seminar sees researcher Romina De Angelis (UCL Institute of Education) share key outcomes of her doctoral research on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Jamaica, and reflect on how her findings could inform ESD both locally and globally.
Part of an ongoing seminar series run by the Development Education Research Centre.
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5/6/2021
In this seminar, the Development Education Research Centre's Director Professor Douglas Bourn will discuss themes from his forthcoming book which outlines a distinctive pedagogical approach for education for social change.
Reference will be made to historical debates regarding education for democracy, socialism and liberation.
The main focus of the talk will however be on an approach to learning that brings in themes of social justice, transformation and impact of globalisation. Examples in the talk will be given from formal and higher education and youth work.
>>> Speaker biography
Douglas Bourn is Professor of Development Education at UCL Institute of Education and Co-Director of the Development Education Research Centre. He is the author of Theory and Practice of Development Education (2014) and Understanding Global Skills (2018) and editor of the Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Education and Learning (2020).
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11/20/2020