Education for Global Citizenship

Abstract

Wojtasik (verantwortlich) 0911/ 5302-735, Claudia Bergmüller (Rezensionen), Matthias Huber (Infos) Abbildungen: (Falls nicht bezeichnet) Privatfotos oder Illustrationen der Autoren. Titelbild: Urheber konnte nicht ermittelt werden Diese Publikation ist gefördert vom Evangelischen Entwicklungsdienst-Ausschuss für Entwicklungsbezogene Bildung und Publizistik, Bonn. Das Heft ist auf umweltfreundlichem chlorfreien Papier gedruckt.

Are schools in Oman planning to produce global citizens? A critical analysis of schools’ visions and missions

“…GCED is about equipping learners with rights, responsibilities and active participation beyond the borders of their nation to include the whole globalised world (Oxfam, 2015;Pike, 2008;Torres, 2008). According to UNESCO (2014), GCED aims to "empower learners to engage and assume active roles both locally and globally to face and resolve global challenges and ultimately to become proactive contributors to a more just, peaceful, tolerant, inclusive, secure and sustainable world" (p. 15).…”

“…GCED is a learner-focussed education because the empowerment focuses on the learner's active social role as a global citizen (Gaudelli and Schmidt, 2018). Additionally, GCED addresses learning as a way of thinking and a set of abilities that students can perform as a consequence of learning experiences (Gaudelli and Schmidt, 2018;Oxfam, 2015). GCED also assists students in developing a set of dispositions and skills to enable them to work across varied cultures and societies (Torres, 2008).…”

“…Competence-based learning that is built around self-discovery where students interact with their environment, reflect and apply skills in everyday contexts is a suitable approach for nurturing global citizens (Pastor-garcía et al, 2019). Oxfam -an international non-profit organisation-encouraged providing resources to assist teachers' in developing global citizens who can learn, reflect, participate in the world, as an essential part of their social justice and human rights approach to solve world issues and address local and global challenges (Bourn, 2016;Oxfam, 2015). For a rigorous development of global citizenship, Oxfam (2015) identified three main principles for schooling as a guide: learning, thinking and actions.…”

“…Additionally, GCED does not only help developing students' thoughtful and clarified interactions with their cultures and their countries, it also helps learners in developing global identifications and adequate knowledge of their roles in the world and the global community (Akkari and Maleq, 2019;Banks, 2004;Jorgenson et al, 2012). It empowers learners with the required skills and attitudes to actively be involved in a globalised world (Oxfam, 2015;Pike, 2008;Torres, 2008).…”

“…Considering all the efforts being exerted and the plans to develop globalised citizens, this paper focuses on GCED because it has a "transformative" perspective on education (Oxfam, 2015) that seeks to transform and enhance students' knowledge, skills, values and attitudes required to function effectively in a globalised world. Also, GCED encompasses learning, thinking and actions as crucial components of achieving just, secure and sustainable global future (Oxfam, 2015). This comprehensiveness of GCED leads to the significance of this investigation.…”