International Educational Development and Learning through Sustainable Partnerships [electronic resource] : Living Global Citizenship /
Coombs, S.author.
Potts, M.author.
Whitehead, J.author.
Addressing the debate around what makes a good citizen, this work proposes a new form of post-colonial citizenship education which can be applied in any cultural setting. International educational partnerships provide the opportunity for participants to live out values such as cultural empathy and thus demonstrate their right to citizenship.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Transforming International Educational Development through Living Global Citizenship; 1.1 Three transformations in learning - the emergence of Living Global Citizenship; 1.2 Living Global Citizenship and postcolonialism; 1.3 Living Global Citizenship as a means of redressing power imbalances; 1.4 Educational cosmopolitanism and universal values; 1.5 De-valuation and de-moralisation in the influence of economic rationalism; 2 Pedagogy for Effective Citizenship Education; 2.1 Deconstructing citizenship education
2.2 The lack of suitable pedagogy for citizenship education. The need to address Gearon's (2003) question: How do we become good citizens?2.3 Citizenship education as a means of bringing about social change; 2.4 Notions of citizenship: Passive, active and living; 2.5 The Big Society and Living Global Citizenship; 2.6 Deconstructing cultural education; 2.7 Living Global Citizenship - pedagogy for effective citizenship education in any cultural setting; 3 Living Theory Transformed into Living Global Citizenship
3.1 Providing an academic framework for Living Global Citizenship as an evolutionary leap from notions of living theory3.2 Ontological characteristics; 3.3 Epistemological characteristics; 3.4 Methodological characteristics; 3.5 Using living-global-citizenship as an explanatory principle and living standard of judgement in anindividual's account of their influence in enquiries of the kind, 'How do I improve what I am doing?'; 3.6 Enhancing the influence of global citizens through living as fully as possible the values of living-global-citizenship; 3.7 Summary of the key framework theories
4 Living Legacies: Living Global Citizenship in Action4.1 Mark Potts - the international educational partnership between Sarum Academy and Nqabakazulu School, South Africa; 4.2 Jack Whitehead - contributing to improving the lives of myself and others; 4.3 Steven Coombs - developing open access resources and accessible pathways to learning technologies; 4.4 Living out my values as a nurse across cultures - Je Kan Adler-Collins; 4.5 Empowering communities and stories of activism in Tasmania
4.6 The extent to which other community partnerships meet the specification for Living Global Citizenship projects that can be implemented through CPD fieldwork4.7 Data from living-theory research in South Africa, Japan, India, China, Canada, Australia, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, in relation to living global citizenship; 4.8 Living legacies; 5 Designing a Living Global Citizenship Project; 5.1 Partnerships and participants; 5.2 The pedagogical protocols of a Living Global Citizenship project; 5.3 An outline of minimum standards and criteria for the projects
5.4 Measuring the pig, not fattening the pig - lessons learnt from partnerships that have limited impact
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Addressing the debate around what makes a good citizen, this work proposes a new form of post-colonial citizenship education which can be applied in any cultural setting. International educational partnerships provide the opportunity for participants to live out values such as cultural empathy and thus demonstrate their right to citizenship.
Economic development.
Education
Political science.
Sociology of Education.
Development Studies.
International and Comparative Education.
Educational Philosophy.
Administration, Organization and Leadership.
Political Science.