Global Citizenship Education for Global Learning

• In Event: 25.086 - Sheraton Roundtable Session One - Grand Centre
  In Roundtable Session: 25.086-7 - Globalizing Postcolonial Studies in Education

Abstract

A sociology of education perspective is deployed for analyzing Global Citizenship Education in hard spaces. I juxtapose definitions of hard spaces provided by scholars from the Global North and the Global South with UNESCO data on literacy rates for Rwanda, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo. I outline a method for culturally sensitive translation and demonstrate how a combination of secondary analysis of international survey data and a close reading of local explanations can help to re-conceptualize hard spaces in locally meaningful ways. The thesis I build is the following: Global Citizenship Education can be used in education development efforts as a fruitful approach for learning about local challenges and resources.

Author

• Susan Wiksten, European Journal of Education