Language and Identity: Classroom Discourse and Development of Global Identity and Citizenship

• In Event: 72.049 - Roundtable Session 34
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Abstract

Global citizenship is a citizenship model that draws growing attention of practitioners and education theorists. Global identity is an important prerequisite for the development of global citizenship. This empirical study demonstrates how teacher mediated global discourses in social studies classrooms impact the construction and development of global identity among students. The study demonstrates that elements of global identity, such as interest in global historic or social events, empathy towards international actors, or the ability to connect local or national events with global events emerge in various constructed classroom global discourses.

Author

• Anatoli Rapoport, Purdue University