The Global Reader

• In Event: 45.065 - Exploring the Complexities in Global Citizenship Education: Hard Spaces, Methodologies, and Ethics

Abstract

Drawing upon tenets of critical theory (e.g., Freire, 1970 a & b: Horkheimer,1972: Lankshear and Mclaren, 1993) cultural capital (e.g.,Bourdieu,1991 ), global epistemologies (e.g., Andreotti & De Souza, 1011; , King, 2015, Santos,2007 a & b, Santos, 2013: Stein, 2017a &b) decolonization (e.g., Maldonna-Torres, 2007: Spivak, 1988, Spivak, 1990) , indigenous ways of knowing (e.g., Ocholla, 2007; Battiste and Henderson, 2000: Nakata,2007; Nakata, 2008; Smith, 2000) and global citizenship (e.g., Abdi, 2015; Torres, 2015), this paper advances a model of cross-cultural meaning making and worldly reading. The model entails significant shifts as worldly meaning making represents a global imaginary that pursues cross-cultural spaces where readers as individuals and as collectives scrutinize, contemplate and transact on worldly matters-- amalgamating, mixing and remixing texts and images.

These are spaces where ideas are explored from multiple sources (including accounts, primary sources, communications and observations), with telescopes, magnifying glasses and mirrors, in different ways (scans, postholes and case-like) across layers with various media (mangled and coalescing). These are spaces involving intersectionalities and movements where meaning makers are worldly futurists who are engaged, discerning , ethical activists. They are mangled digital spaces that are translayered, translingual, adaptive and that support border crossing and stepping across lines. To do so, cross-cultural advocates alter, renovate and innovate our systems and practices. They themselves are constantly seeking discernments, postulating possibilities, expressing themselves, contemplating and pursuing social actions. They strive to learn about and from others by investing in building relationships for cross-cultural self-determination. They represent an approach to diversity that addresses a core value in eclecticism and emancipatory epistemologies.

Author

• Robert J. Tierney, The University of British Columbia, The University of Sydney, Beijing Normal University