Empowering Global Citizens

Author : Fernando Reimers,Vidur Chopra,Connie Chung,E. B. O'donnell
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1533594546

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Empowering Global Citizens by Fernando Reimers,Vidur Chopra,Connie Chung,E. B. O'donnell Pdf

How do we help students work effectively with others from diverse cultural backgrounds? How do we help them understand the world? How do we prepare them for work and life in an era of globalization, volatility, and uncertainty? Empowering Global Citizens offers educators and parents compelling answers to those questions. This book presents The World Course, a curriculum on global citizenship education designed to equip students with the competencies they need to thrive and contribute to sustainable development in an era of globalization. Drawing on curriculum mapping this book offers a coherent and rigorous set of instructional units to support deep learning of twenty-first-century competencies that develop agency, imagination, confidence, and the skills to navigate the complexity of our times. Drawing on a rich conceptual framework of global education, The World Course scaffolds the development of global competency drawing on project-based learning and other pedagogies that support personalization. The course expands children's horizons, helping them understand the world in which they live in all its complexity from kindergarten to high school. This is done through learning activities at the zone for proximal development for each age group, with activities that foster student agency and a growth mindset.

Author : Fernando Reimers
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Education and globalization
ISBN : 1546456775

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Empowering Students to Improve the World in Sixty Lessons. Version 1. 0 by Fernando Reimers Pdf

This book offers three tools to assist student, teachers and school leaders in educating global citizens. The first is a protocol to design and adapt global citizenship curriculum. The second is a protocol to design a school wide strategy for global education. The third is an actual curriculum prototype, a sixty lesson global citizenship curriculum, developed following the process presented in the book.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231001802

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Schools in action, global citizens for sustainable development by UNESCO Pdf

Author : R. Brian Howe,Katherine Covell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442692138

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Empowering Children by R. Brian Howe,Katherine Covell Pdf

Approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child affirms that children in all countries have fundamental rights, including rights to education. To date, 192 states are signatories to or have in some form ratified the accord. Children are still imperilled in many countries, however, and are often not made aware of their guaranteed rights. In Empowering Children, R. Brian Howe and Katherine Covell assert that educating children about their basic rights is a necessary means not only of fulfilling a country's legal obligations, but also of advancing education about democratic principles and the practice of citizenship. The authors contend that children's rights education empowers children as persons and as rights-respecting citizens in democratic societies. Such education has a 'contagion effect' that brings about a general social knowledge on human rights and social responsibility. Although there remain obstacles to the implementation of children's rights in many countries, Howe and Covell argue that reforming schools and enhancing teacher education are absolutely essential to the creation of a new culture of respect toward children as citizens. Their thorough and passionate work marks a significant advance in the field.

Author : Fernando M. Reimers
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811538872

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Educating Students to Improve the World by Fernando M. Reimers Pdf

This open access book addresses how to help students find purpose in a rapidly changing world. In a probing and visionary analysis of the field of global education Fernando Reimers explains how to lead the transformation of schools and school systems in order to more effectively prepare students to address today’s’ most urgent challenges and to invent a better future. Offering a comprehensive and multidimensional framework for designing and implementing a global education program that combines cultural, psychological, professional, institutional and political perspectives the book integrates an extensive body of empirical literature on the practice of global education. It discusses several global citizenship curricula that have been adopted by schools and school networks, and ties them into an approach to lead school change into the uncharted territory of the future. Given its scope, the book will help teachers, school and district leaders tackle the change management needed in order to introduce global education, and more generally increase the relevancy of education. In addition, the book offers a “bridge” for more productive collaboration and communication between those who lead the process of educational change, and those who study and theorize this important work. At a time when the urgency of our shared global challenges calls for more understanding and collaboration and when the rapid transformation of societies requires that we help students develop a clear sense of relevancy and purpose, this book offers a way to pursue deep and sustainable change in instruction and school culture, so that students learn that nothing human is foreign and that they can find meaning in lives aligned with audacious purposes to make the world better.

Author : Lloyd Kornelsen,Geraldine Balzer,Karen M. Magro
Publisher : Canadian Scholars' Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781773381985

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Teaching Global Citizenship by Lloyd Kornelsen,Geraldine Balzer,Karen M. Magro Pdf

Teaching Global Citizenship brings together perspectives from former and current teachers from across Canada to tackle the unique challenges surrounding educating for global awareness. The contributors discuss strategies for encouraging young people to cultivate a sense of agency and global responsibility. Reflecting on the educator’s experience, each chapter engages with critical questions surrounding teaching global citizenship, such as how to help students understand and navigate the tension at the heart of global citizenship between universalism and pluralism, and how to do so without frightening, regressing, mythicizing, imposing, or colonizing. Based on narrative inquiry, the contributors convey their insights through stories from their classroom experiences, which take place in diverse educational settings: from New Brunswick to British Columbia to Nunavut, in rural and urban areas, and in public and private schools. Covering a broad range of topics surrounding the complexity of educating for global citizenship, this timely text will benefit those in education, global citizenship, curriculum development, and social studies courses across Canada. FEATURES: - Grounded in narrative inquiry, experiential learning, and teacher-based research - Includes study questions at the end of each chapter - Written by teachers for teachers with the accessibility of the material, diverse voices, and a broad spectrum of classroom settings in mind

Author : Fernando Reimers
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1983898589

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Empowering Students to Improve the World in Sixty Lessons (Chinese Edition) by Fernando Reimers Pdf

This is the Chinese Language edition of a book which offers three tools to assist student, teachers and school leaders in educating global citizens. The first is a protocol to design and adapt global citizenship curriculum. The second is a protocol to design a school wide strategy for global education. The third is an actual curriculum prototype, a sixty lesson global citizenship curriculum, developed following the process presented in the book. The curriculum offers a coherent and progressive trajectory of five lessons per grade, from first grade to grade twelve, aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals.

Author : Sukowiyono,Siti Awaliyah,Peter B.R. Carey,Max Lane,Chen Fei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000468427

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Empowering Civil Society in the Industrial Revolution 4.0 by Sukowiyono,Siti Awaliyah,Peter B.R. Carey,Max Lane,Chen Fei Pdf

ICCEDI is an international seminar that is held every two years organized by the Law and Citizenship Department, Faculty of Social Science Universitas Negeri Malang. The activities aim to discuss the theoretical and practical citizenship education that becomes needed for democracy in Indonesia and other countries with a view to build academic networks by gathering academics from various research institutes and universities. Citizenship education is an urgent need for the nation in order to build a civilized democracy for several reasons. Citizenship education is important for those who are politically illiterate and do not know how to work the democracy of its institutions. Another problem is the increasing political apathy, indicated by the limited involvement of citizens in the political process. These conditions show how citizenship education becomes the means needed by a democratic country like Indonesia. The book addresses a number of important issues, such as law issues, philosophy of moral values, political government, socio-cultural and Pancasila, and civic education. Finally, it offers a conceptual framework for future democracy. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners, governance, and other related stakeholders.

Author : Keengwe, Jared
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799895435

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Handbook of Research on Promoting Global Citizenship Education by Keengwe, Jared Pdf

A global citizen is an individual who believes in a public responsibility for their local community to grow and interconnect amongst the world’s diverse people and things. Global citizenship education is a fast-moving process that continues to intertwine communities all over the world. As we move toward a more global world, the improvement in education, health, poverty rates, and standard of living should come with it. This global world must be a place where people are aware of what is going on and can have an impact as well. The Handbook of Research on Promoting Global Citizenship Education explores various ways to empower educators to design and implement a curriculum that incorporates global citizen education. Covering a range of topics such as global issues and academic migration, this major reference work is ideal for academicians, industry professionals, policymakers, researchers, scholars, instructors, and students.

Author : Eva Aboagye,S. Nombuso Dlamini
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781487506377

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Global Citizenship Education by Eva Aboagye,S. Nombuso Dlamini Pdf

Drawing on contemporary global events, this book highlights how global citizenship education can be used to critically educate about the complexity and repressive nature of global events and our collective role in creating a just world.

Author : Namrata Sharma
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030580629

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Value-Creating Global Citizenship Education for Sustainable Development by Namrata Sharma Pdf

This volume brings together marginalized perspectives and communities into the mainstream discourse on education for sustainable development and global citizenship. Building on her earlier work, Sharma uses non-western perspectives to challenge dominant agendas and the underlying Western worldview in the UNESCO led discourse on global citizenship education. Chapters develop the theoretical framework around the three domains of learning within the global citizenship education conceptual dimensions of UNESCO--the cognitive, socio-emotional, and behavioral--and offer practical insights for educators. Value-creating global citizenship education is offered as a pedagogical approach to education for sustainable development and global citizenship in addition to and complementing other approaches mentioned within the recent UNESCO guidelines.

Author : Abdeljalil Akkari,Kathrine Maleq
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030446178

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Global Citizenship Education by Abdeljalil Akkari,Kathrine Maleq Pdf

This open access book takes a critical and international perspective to the mainstreaming of the Global Citizenship Concept and analyses the key issues regarding global citizenship education across the world. In that respect, it addresses a pressing need to provide further conceptual input and to open global citizenship agendas to diversity and indigeneity. Social and political changes brought by globalisation, migration and technological advances of the 21st century have generated a rise in the popularity of the utopian and philosophical idea of global citizenship. In response to the challenges of today’s globalised and interconnected world, such as inequality, human rights violations and poverty, global citizenship education has been invoked as a means of preparing youth for an inclusive and sustainable world. In recent years, the development of global citizenship education and the building of students’ global citizenship competencies have become a focal point in global agendas for education, international educational assessments and international organisations. However, the concept of global citizenship education still remains highly contested and subject to multiple interpretations, and its operationalisation in national educational policies proves to be challenging. This volume aims to contribute to the debate, question the relevancy of global citizenship education’s policy objectives and to enhance understanding of local perspectives, ideologies, conceptions and issues related to citizenship education on a local, national and global level. To this end, the book provides a comprehensive and geographically based overview of the challenges citizenship education faces in a rapidly changing global world through the lens of diversity and inclusiveness.

Author : Emiliano Bosio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000370645

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Conversations on Global Citizenship Education by Emiliano Bosio Pdf

This volume offers a remarkable collection of theoretically and practically grounded conversations with internationally recognized scholars, who share their perspectives on Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in relation to university research, teaching, and learning. Conversations on Global Citizenship Education brings together the narratives of a diverse array of educators who share their unique experiences of navigating GCE in the modern university. Conversations focus on why and how educators’ theoretical and empirical perspectives on GCE are essential for achieving an all-embracing GCE curriculum which underpins global peace. Drawing on the Freirean concept of "conscientization", GCE is presented as an educational imperative to combat growing inequality, seeping nationalism, and post-truth politics. This timely volume will be of interest to educators who are seeking to develop their theoretical understanding of GCE into teaching practice, researchers and students who are new to GCE and who seek dynamic starting points for their research, and general audience who are interested in learning more about the history, philosophy, and practice of GCE.

Author : Fernando M. Reimers
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811521379

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Empowering Teachers to Build a Better World by Fernando M. Reimers Pdf

This open access book presents a comparative study on how large-scale professional development programs for teachers are designed and implemented. Around the world, governments and educators are recognizing the need to educate students in a broad range of higher order cognitive skills and socio-emotional competencies, and providing effective opportunities for teachers to develop the expertise needed to teach these skills is a crucial aspect of effective implementation of curricula which include those goals. This study examines how large-scale efforts to empower teachers for deeper instruction have been designed, how they have been implemented, and their outcomes. To do so, it investigates six programs from England, Colombia, Mexico, India, and the United States. Though all six are intended to broaden and deepen students’ curricular aspirations, each takes this expansion of curricular goals in a different direction. The ambitious education reforms studied here explicitly focus on building teachers’ capacity to teach on a broader set of goals. Through a discerning analysis of program documents, evaluations, and interviews with senior leaders and participants in the programs, the book identifies the various theories of action used in these programs, examines how they were implemented, and discusses what they achieved. As such, it offers an indispensable resource for education leaders interested in designing and implementing professional development programs for teachers that are aligned with ambitious instructional goals.

Author : Michael Edwards,John Gaventa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134205820

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Global Citizen Action by Michael Edwards,John Gaventa Pdf

Civil society, or citizen's groups, have taken centre stage in international policy debates and global problem solving. They hold out the promise of a global community and global governance. This volume, by leading scholars and participants, shows how to understand the changes that are occurring, particularly in relation to the international institutions involved. It includes case studies from all the major social movements of the 1990s.