Foregrounding Race and Colonial Legacies: Teachers' Efforts in Global Citizenship and Human Rights Education

• In Event: Critical Issues in Civic Education

Abstract

This qualitative case study illustrates teachers’ perspectives and actions to enact global citizenship education (GCE) and human rights education (HRE) curricula. In light of calls to challenge deracialized approaches to GCE and to link current inequalities to colonial legacies, we sought to describe teachers’ rationalizations for teaching global issues and the nature of their practice. Drawing on qualitative data sources from a series of teacher seminars, we highlight the evolution of participants’ perspectives and enactment of GCE. Findings indicate teachers’ support of foregrounding race and colonialism in the teaching of social issues. However, there remain obstacles in implementing GCE in ways that link current issues of inequality and injustice to colonial legacies that continue to marginalize racial minorities.

Authors

• Jillian Carter Ford, Kennesaw State University
  Presenting Author

• Theresa Alviar Martin, Kennesaw State University
  Presenting Author

• Binbin Jiang, Kennesaw State University
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