Global Citizenship and Values in an Era of Multiculturalism and Technological Advancements: What Education Can Do

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Today’s learners are citizens in a world that is complex and faces rapid social, ecological, economic, political changes wrought with post-pandemic disruptions, regional wars and climate change crises. In addition, the swift proliferation of artificial intelligence, big data and new social media platforms has prompted a re-calibration of what it means to exercise human agency and autonomy. This symposium calls for education to urgently rethink its fundamental goals to help each child thrive and flourish through a renewed intentionality in global citizenship and values. We share how democratic, ethics and values, and character and citizenship education can be promoted in an era of multiculturalism and technological advancements through meta-syntheses and case studies across the United States, Singapore and Germany.

Sub Unit

• International Aligned Associations / International Academy of Education - IAE

Chair

• Ee Ling Low, National Institute of Education - Nanyang Technological University

Papers

• Education and the New Challenges of Democracy - Fernando M. Reimers, Harvard University

• Values and Ethics in Teacher Education - Ee Ling Low, National Institute of Education - Nanyang Technological University

• Trends Calling for Character and Citizenship Education: A Singapore Perspective - Oon Seng Tan, National Institute of Education - Nanyang Technological University

• Student Civic Online Reasoning Skills in Higher Education: Cross-National Results and Perspectives - Olga Zlatkin Troitschanskaia, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz