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Building excellence in global citizenship education (GCE)


The Building Academic Excellence in Global Citizenship Education Project set out to identify, describe and share exemplary practice in global citizenship education (GCE) at La Trobe University. We invited academics and other LTU staff to participate in interviews to understand how global citizenship is conceived and enacted at La Trobe.

Working from our interview and focus group data, we seek to showcase exemplary practice and build collaborative scholarship through establishing a GC community of practice. Our project findings and outcomes will inform policy, curriculum and teaching refreshment at multiple levels, aligning with educational aspirations related to student satisfaction and employability and La Trobe’s Internationalisation plan with respect to the global citizenship essential.

Project aims:

- Engage in scholarship to explore conceptions of global citizenship and the ‘ideal global graduate’

- Understanding how our colleagues at La Trobe are thinking about and enacting global citizenship education, or education that aims to prepare graduates as ‘ideal global graduates’

- Celebrate, showcase and learn from diversity in thought and practice
Form a community of practice (CoP) to develop and share educational ideas, and promote scholarship.

Project Progress

So far, the project team has conducted a systematic review on global citizenship education, interviewed 14 La Trobe staff and held 1 focus group to understand what ‘global citizenship education’ and the ‘ideal global graduate’ means in the La Trobe University context.

On 27th June, the project team held its first seminar titled: Educating for global citizenship: More than language study and trips abroad? With 16 participants in Melbourne and 4 in Bendigo, we enjoyed presentations and lively discussion about the diverse ways in which our colleagues were thinking about and researching aspects of global citizenship. A summary of this seminar is available via a link below.

To promote GCE scholarship and showcase current practices of GCE at La Trobe, the project has also awarded 3 outstanding academic teams involved in GCE with seeding grants to build on their work. See newsletter for more details.

On 24th October, we continued to explore GCE and build a community of practice in our second seminar: Can our graduates become global citizens without transformative learning? The slides for this seminar are available via a link below.

Join our community!

We are always looking for staff who are interested in applying innovative methods to advance global citizenship education at La Trobe. If you have a keen interest in the area or an idea you would like to share, contact Rachel, from the project team at r.soh@latrobe.edu.au

Curriculum Resources

Downloadable resources:

Tracy Fortune's presentation on Global Citizenship at the AIEC in Hobart, 2017

Articles:


  • Biesta G. & Lawry R. (2006) From Teaching citizenship to learning democracy: Overcoming individualism in research, policy and practice, Cambridge Journal of Education, 36, 63–79.
  • Green, M. (2012) What is global citizenship? (IAU Horizon). Paris, France: International Association of Universities, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
  • Herbers, M. S., & Mullins Nelson, B. (2009). Using the disorienting dilemma to promote transformative learning. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 20 (1), 5-34.
  • Leask B., Bridge C. (2013). Comparing internationalisation of the curriculum across the disciplines: Theoretical and practical perspectives. Compare: A journal of comparative and international education, 43(1), 79-101
  • Lilley, K., Barker, M., & Harris, N. (2015a). Exploring the Process of Global Citizen Learning and the Student Mind-Set. Journal of Studies in International Education, 19(3), 225-245. doi:10.1177/1028315314547822
  • Lilley, K., Barker, M., & Harris, N. (2016) The Global Citizen Conceptualized: Accommodating ambiguity. Journal of Studies in International Education, 1-16. doi:10.1177/1028315316637354
  • Mezirow, J. & Colleagues (2000) Learning as Transformation. Critical Perspectives on a theory in progress. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
  • Oxley, L., & Morris, P. (2013) Global Citizenship: A typology for distinguishing its multiple conceptions. British Journal of Educational Studies 61(3)301-325
  • Riszvi, F. (1999) Towards cosmopolitan learning. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 30, 253-268

Images

Tracy Fortune speaking on Global Citizenship - AIEC, Hobart, 2017
Global Citizenship and Transformative Learning seminar - Bundoora, October 2017


Val Clifford speaking on Global Citizenship and Transformative Learning - Bundoora, October 2017

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