International mindedness: Fuzzy concept, or promising framework for global education?

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