EM202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Global Citizenship Education, Informal Learning, Canadian Identity
Document Summary
Potential barriers that prevent critical global citizenship education from occuring in. An agenda for a social justice-oriented approach to teaching and learning global issues in the classroom. Pushes beyond an exclusively national perspective of world affairs. Avoids reducing civics and global studies to social studies topics. Breakening from tokenizing and exoticizing foreign places and people. Encourages students to understand globalization and adopt self-critical approach to how they and their nation are implicated in loa and global problems. Recognize and use their political agency towards effecting change and promoting social and environmental justice. In canadian schools, gce teaching/learnig activities are inevitably influenced by dominant perspectives on the effects and driving forces of globalization. Prioritizes themes of economy, cross-cultural interaction, security, democracy. Citizenship learning is a life-long and life-wide process, occuring in wide variety of formal, non- formal and informal learning settings.
