The Critical Global Educator: Global citizenship education as sustainable development

✍ Scribed by Maureen Ellis

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 263
• Series: Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An acknowledged challenge for humanitarian democratic education is its perceived lack of philosophical and theoretical foundation, often resulting in peripheral academic status and reduced prestige. A rich philosophical and theoretical tradition does however exist. This book synthesises crucial concepts from Critical Realism, Critical Social Theory, Critical Discourse Studies, neuro-, psycho-, socio- and cognitive-linguistic research, to provide critical global educators with a Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) framework for self- and negotiated evaluation.

Empirical research spanning six years, involving over 500 international teachers, teacher educators, NGO and DEC administrators and academics, traces the personal and professional development of the critical global educator. Analyses of surveys, focus groups and interviews reveal factors which determine development, translating personal transformative learning to professional transaction and transformational political efficacy. Eight recommendations call for urgent conceptual deconstruction, expansion and redefinition, mainstreaming Global Citizenship Education as Sustainable Development. In an increasingly heteroglossic world, this book argues for relevance, for Critical Discourse Studies, if educators mediating and modelling diverse emergent disciplines are to honestly and effectively engage a learner’s consciousness.

The Critical Global Educator will appeal to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of citizenship, development, global education, sustainability, social justice, human rights and professional development.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
List of abbreviations
1 Bible to bibliography: Personal, professional and political efficacy
2 Globalisation: Sustainable global citizenship
3 Philosophy transcends mediated modes
4 Personal search, public research
5 Policy, politics, glocal integrity
6 Conviction, verification, in-forming CHAT
7 Dreams, drama, performative dharma
Appendix 1: Initiatives and publications related to GCESD
Appendix 2: Discourse for deliberative democracy: Unlocking cryptogrammar
Appendix 3: Halliday: Systemic functional linguistics
Appendix 4: Outline of research design: 2007–13
Appendix 5: ITE questionnaire: Becoming a Critical Global Educator
Appendix 6: Preliminary PGCE survey, practitioner focus groups and interviews
Appendix 7: Practitioner questionnaire: Professional development of the critical global educator
Appendix 8: Familiarisation notes
Index