Thursday, December 27, 2007
Article: Critque of Global Education and Citizenship Education
| Globalising Citizenship Education? A Critique of Global Education and Citizenship Education | |
| Authors: | Davies, Ian; Evans, Mark; Reid, Alan |
| Descriptors: | Foreign Countries; Global Education; Citizenship Education; Global Approach |
| Source: | British Journal of Educational Studies, v53 n1 p66-89 Mar 2005 |
| Peer-Reviewed: | Yes |
| Publisher: | Journal Customer Services, Blackwell Publishing, 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148. Tel: 800-835-6770 (Toll Free); Fax: 781-388-8232; e-mail: subscrip@bos.blackwellpublishing.com. |
| Publication Date: | 2005-03-00 |
| Pages: | 24 |
| Pub Types: | Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive |
| Abstract: | This article discusses, principally from an English perspective, globalisation, global citizenship and two forms of education relevant to those developments (global education and citizenship education). We describe what citizenship has meant inside one nation state and ask what citizenship means, and could mean, in a globalising world. By comparing the natures of citizenship education and global education, as experienced principally in England during, approxim-ately, the last three decades, we seek to develop a clearer understanding of what has been done and what might be done in the future in order to develop education for global citizenship. We suggest that up to this point there have been significant differences between the characterisations that have been developed for global education and citizenship education. These differences are revealed through an examination of three areas: focus and origins; the attitude of the government and significant others; and the adoption of pedagogical approaches. We suggest that it would be useful to look beyond old barriers that have separated citizenship education and global education and to form a new global citizenship education. Their separation has in the past only perpetuated the old understandings of citizenship and constructed a constrained view of global education. |
Pollution
Interconnected Planet
Healthcare
Interconnected Topics
Leadership
Anu in Fremont
Mo Quoyami - East Bay
Stereotypes
• Women join police force in
Model Lesson
Model Lesson for a Current Event
Level: High Intermediate ESL to University level
Newspaper article title: “Tourists boycotting
1. Show the interconnectedness of the world, blogs, online communities
a. How communities merge to help other communities, beyond borders
2. Discuss a variety of viewpoints
a. Read blogs about local concerns
3. Ask students to discuss what the options are for the Burmese citizens and what choices they have.
a. Investigate how this boycott could affect people inside and outside of Burma/Myanmar.
b. How does it affect the triple bottom line of the globe?
c. Could it affect you personally? What choices would you make?
4. New questions to integrate:
a. What did you learn from this subject that could work in other countries? Would something like this in your home country? Why or why not?
b. What other points of view are there? Can you see how different solutions to this situation could harm people inside and outside the country?
c. What solutions are sustainable? How does it effect the environment, economy, population over time? What are the trade-offs?
d. Can any of the negative behaviors be changed? What could someone (or you) personally do to change the outcome?
e. What ideas are connected to this idea?
f. What related ideas would you like to bring from your country to this country? Or from this country to your home country?
• Bloggers in
Take Action
Challenge students to go out in the community and act
Service Learning - provide assistance or service in the community
• Promote Community volunteerism (National Volunteer Day, School Volunteer Day)
• Help non-profits or religious places (feeding the poor, clothing drives)
• Schedule emergency training (the Red Cross, and fire department offer free of charge in some cases)
• Environment (sustainable gardening, e-waste, recycling)
• Volunteer at schools, festivals, parks
• Volunteer with League of Women Voter’s drive to call and remind people to vote
• Sustainable gardening at a school site
• Recycling center
• Visit an ethnic art exhibit/museum
• Non-profit agency
• Take a tour of city hall
Interviews (Create a list of questions from students before you go, or they come to your class)
• Talk to someone who is practicing Global Citizenship
• Non profit agency workers
• Local officials
• A history story teller
• Composting
• Oil Recycling
• Make a speech to the class
• Present findings outside of class
• Blog on the Internet
• Create a video on the Internet
• Write a letter
• Compile a list of resources and make available on the web (make a list of local and global ethnic/non ethnic NGO resources) for other students
Engage the Community
• Have a community fair at the adult school.
• Have representative from EED/job placement come regularly to your school and report on new jobs
• Have a recruiting event at your school for hard to fill positions
• Organize a charity event or drive
List of Ideas
1. Find ways to encourage students’ environmental interests on issues that are personally meaningful to them
2. Include classroom activities that create a framework for learning global citizenry skills
3. Identify skills that require students to grow to be global citizens, name them and their applications.
4. Ask them to define their own cultural identity and share that with other students
5. Find a way to ask students to share pertinent non-western perspectives to intercultural communication activities, incorporate “culturally responsive teaching”
6. Help students understand general workplace language, skills and dynamics as foundation skills that will assist them anywhere on the globe.
7. Introduce key vocabulary (sustainability, waste, excess, green, recyclable, trade-offs, long term, short term, consumption, consumer, social responsibility, fair trade)
8. Ask them to make an environmental pledge (I will put all plastic bottles in a recycle bin, not a garbage can)
9. Ask them to make a list of services we get for free from the environment
10. Learn how to be a wise consumer, spend with a conscious
11. Encourage some kind of action as a new production of knowledge
12. Study the city or school’s recycling policies
13. Help make the classroom more efficient for recycling and energy
14. Have the class design an informative display/bulletin board about their learning on recycling
15. Encourage welcome groups for new students
16. Promote activities that encourage student leadership
Living and working only within their own ethnic community or not integrating means that they don’t take a leadership role in the community. It could take one or more generations to understand roles and civic responsibilities. Ethnic community groups don’t know how develop leaders that can take a role both inside the group and outside to the larger community. Hence a diverse city needs to understand global citizenship leadership qualities and build consensus with other minority ethnic groups in the community to get their issues heard and understood rather than continue to be marginalized.
17. Discuss choices people/government/and communities make about the environment, the tradeoffs and connections
18. Elicit information from the class and write about something from a totally different point of view than people are used to
19. Have a group of students try to point to places on a map with a pencil. Each person has a string attached to the pencil. Do it with a rubber band. Do it blindfolded. Do it with your hands tied behind your back. This really shows how we must try to act in concert. (Idea from Dr. Reckmeyere.)
Classroom Energy Audit
After learning about recycling, determine how the class can make it easy to educate others
Have class make a billboard
Kitchen Oil Recylcing
Do you fry your Holiday Turkey?
Recycle your frying oil Free!
-private homeowners only
-valid only between 12/24/07 and 01/04/08
San Jose Tallow Company
(408) 457-8777
By recycling your used cooking oil, you help produce bio-diesel fuel to keep California eco-friendly!
Car Oil Recycling - Oil Spills
I have recently given the lesson already provided on the following website.
Very positive reaction from students
It lends itself to discussing many other environmental issues
These materials are ready for you to use today....
www.thefamilycar.org
Supplemental materials to consider:
Discussion of recent oil spill in San Francisco Bay
Hair and mushrooms create a recipe for cleaning up oily beaches. (SF Chronicle, November 14, 2007)
Pay It Forward
The Pay It Forward Foundation was established in September 2000 by author Catherine Ryan Hyde and others to educate and inspire students to realize that they can change the world, and provide them with opportunities to do so. By bringing the author's vision and related materials into classrooms internationally, students and their teachers are encouraged to formulate their own ideas of how they can pay it forward.
The movie is okay, too. It has good heart and a great idea.
A young boy attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher gives him that chance.
Kevin Spacey ... Eugene Simonet
Helen Hunt ... Arlene McKinney
Haley Joel Osment... Trevor McKinney
www.payitforward.com
Don't throw it out!
Fix it fast
Pass it along
Article: "Before you throw out your old stuff, reconsider"
S.f. Chronicle?
Date unknown. Maybe Sunday Book section.
Book:
Don't throw it out. Recycle, renew and reuse to make things last.
By Lori Baird and the Editors of Yankee Magazine.
Light, Bulbs, Action
Recycling
S.F. Chronicle
Saturday,November 10, 2007
Section F
Page F5
"How to pick the best lightbulb for the job."
"A Bright Idea"
Ad
January 23-29
Metro
www.hhhw.org
Message: Fluorescent lighting contains mercury and is not allowed int he garbage
Fairness, discrimination
Bank apologizes after denying account to Moroccan woman, citing terror risk
Lompoc
Mercury News wire services
Bank apologizes after denying account to Moroccan woman, citing terror risk. (Mercury News, 10/29/07)
Language English and Others
Objective: Discuss language learning and native language studies in U.S.: Bilingualism
Action: Encourage immigrants to preserve heritage languages and note that teachers are needed
Resources
1.
In U.S., one-fifth don't speak English at home
S.F. Chronicle
Jill Tucker
Saturday December 16, 2007
Bay Area and California
Page C1 & C3
Article Title: "Grassroots gathering seeks ways to restore hope to Afghanistan"
Link to original: www.sfgate.com
Other links/resources mentioned:
www.kabulmaterinity.org
Afghan children's relief organization
Omeid International
2.
Arabic leads shift in college language studies
S.J. Mercury
Lisa Fernandez
Saturday December 16, 2007
Bay Area and California
Page 1B & 4
Article Title: "Afghan teacher: 'You are so lucky' Students learn about educator's struggle"
Link to original:
Other links/resources mentioned:
www.afghanfriends.net
Election 2008: Immigration
Objective: Learn more about candidates opinions on immigration
Action: Voting immigrant students make an informed choice when voting
Resources
1.
S.J Mercury
Saturday December 22, 2007
Business Section C
Page 1A & 17
Readers Platform
Article Title: "Immigration: Presidential candidates walk fine line"
Link to original: www.mercurynews.com/politics
2.
http://www.siren-bayarea.org/
San Jose, California non-profit
3.
http://www.nelrc.org/changeagent/pdf/issue23/issue23.pdf
Adult education newsletter focusing on immigration in this issue
Lists the following additional websites:
Places to look for more information: American Friends Service Committee
Afghanistan Resources
Objective: Collect resources on Afghanistan to give to students interested in helping
Action: Encourage immigrants to stay involved in the welfare of their native country
Resources
1.
S.F. Chronicle
Jill Tucker
Saturday December 16, 2007
Bay Area and California
Page C1 & C3
Article Title: "Grassroots gathering seeks ways to restore hope to Afghanistan"
Link to original: www.sfgate.com
Other links/resources mentioned:
www.kabulmaternity.org
Afghan children's relief organization
Omeid International
2.
S.J. Mercury
Lisa Fernandez
Saturday December 16, 2007
Bay Area and California
Page 1B & 4
Article Title: "Afghan teacher: 'You are so lucky' Students learn about educator's struggle"
Link to original:
Other links/resources mentioned:
www.afghanfriends.net
The Atlantic
Sarah Chayes
Article Title: "Scents & Sensibility"
Link to original: www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200712/afghans
http://www.arghand.org/
4.
S.F. Chronicle
Datebook Section
October 20, 2007
Article Title: "Two Afghan Women Reach Across World to Help Kids. Cal State East Bay Students heed calling to found 2 schools in troubled homeland. "
Do just one thing
Objective:
Action:
Resources
1.
2008 Calendar
Andrews McMeel
ParadePicks gift guide
Article Title: "Do just one thing"
Link to original: www.sfgate.com
Christmas giving
Lesson Title: Christmas giving
Objective: Educate on what one person can accomplish during the holidays
Action:
Resources
1.
S.J. Mercury
Saturday December 15, 2007
The Valley Section B
Page 3A & B
Columnist l.a. chung "who we are"
Article Title: "Teacher collects gifts for kids to give: Holiday Workshops are twist on usual custom"
Link to original:
www.mercurynews.com/news
Home/Classroom/ School Energy Audit
Objective: Educate how simple actions can save money and energy
Action: Have students do an audit of their home and what they could improve on
Do an energy audit on the classroom.
Resources
1.
S.J. Mercury
December 2007
Page 4E
Michele Chandler
Article Title: "How to make your home more energy-efficient"
Follow-up question: What is sustainable spaces, U.S. Dept of Energy and what do they do?
Websites of additional interest: www.flexyourpower.com
Shopping bags-plastic, paper or other
Objective: Learn more about environmental impact, increase awareness,
Educate on what sack selections are available for shoppers
Action: Take a more considered stance when shopping: choose an eco-friendly grocery sack, change behavior
Real-life example: Woman re-purposing raincoats into shopping bags
Re-use
Re-cycle
Repurpose
Resources
1.
S.F. Chronicle
Saturday December 22, 2007
Business Section C
Page C7 & 8
Readers Platform
Article Title: "Paper, plastic or newfangled? Shoppers weigh in on bags"
Link to original: www.sfgate.com/ZBWN, www.sfgate.com/ZBWO
2.
S.F. Chronicle
Friday December 21, 2007
Page A1 & 22
Article Title: "Paper or plastic? Neither."
Link to original: www.sfgate.com
3.
S.F. Chronicle
Sarah Adler
Special to the Chronicle
Saturday,November 11, 2007
Page D1 & 6
Article Title: "A cleaner environment is in the bag"
Link to original: www.sfgate.com
www.citybagtrade.com
4.
3.
S.F. Chronicle
Christopher Bodeed
Associate Press
Thhursday Jannuary 10, 2008
Page C4
Article Title: "China banning free plastic shopping bags; War on 'white pollution' may spur customers' return to reusable sacks"
Link to original: www.sfgate.com
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Ideas on Education for Global Citizenship in Adult ESL
LLD Dept. LINGFEST on 11/9/07
M.A. TESOL, SJSU (12/07)
Part I: The Ideas.
Some personal (anecdotal) concerns for immigrants:
They …
Are free to live under the radar
Lack of personal investment in community
Lack of political clout
Don’t have time to learn the language
Live and work in their co-ethnic community
Don’t receive training in growing industries
Pick up bad habits
Forget family ties and generational responsibilities
Only want to get educated and make money
Consumerism
Accept the little resources given to them, but don’t give back to the community
Don’t have a policy of volunteerism
Don’t necessarily support each other cross-ethnically
Why Education for Global Citizenship?
A platform for citizenship in a globalizing world
Talks about the “triple bottom line.” (Environmental, Social and Economic impact)
A 21st Century Education
Why do ESL educators need to know about Global Citizenship?
Globalization
No formal immigrant integration policy
Responsibility is falling on education system and places of employment
But….
Immigrants are often in a position to be global change agents
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Blog Beginner-Mindwalk
Today I've started my first blog as an exercise in trying to follow some of the tenants of Global Citizenship that I would like to teach to my students. I am providing information to the public. No public to speak of yet, but I think it's something that I have gone to this trouble to create a blog. This is because I realize how important access to information and the freedom to present information is in some areas of the globe. So this is a free resource on a free site with free access. Another reason I am also writing is because this is for my ANTH 187 class at San Jose State University.
Today's idea:
We need to change the way we see the world “to allow us to feel responsibility."
This half quote came about from watching the movie, MINDWALK, a film by Bernt Capra, based on the book The Turning Point by Fritjof Capra. (1991)
The movie Mindwalk takes place at Mont Saint-Michel in France. Mont Saint Michael has been a fortress, a church, a monastery, a village, an abbey and now a UNESCO world heritage tourist attraction. During high tide it is a small rocky island disconnected from the mainland. This stunning location, part-natural and part-man-made, is interesting for its value as a metaphor for the planet. Different man-made environmental factors are encroaching on the beautiful surroundings and will soon change the landscape.
Primarily this beautiful landscape is a backdrop for a philosophical conversation that takes place among a poet, a politician and a scientist.
Though the movie came out in '91, the ideas are still relevant. My takeaway from the movie was the imperative for myself, and for people in general to change their mindset and take responsibility for their actions-each individual has global impact.Blog goals:
1. Informally discuss my ideas about the concepts of Education for Global Citizenship in relation to my immigrant ESL students
2. To figure out how I can help my immigrant students understand some of these ideas at a personal level and by doing so, help them integrate into their community in a positive way.
That's all for today.