Global learning as a dimension of education for democracy

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Outline

Democracy, which can be understood as the central basis of coexistence through the core element of democratic decision-making, is under threat. However, the survival of humanity depends on the establishment of balanced processes of interest negotiation, i.e., democracy on a global scale. Given the tension between threatened democracy and the need for shared decision-making, effective democracy education is more urgent than ever. However, democracy-education is often oriented towards learning about citizen-based national instruments of decision making. However, this is an inadequate response, as democracies are globally envolved and influenced.

Therefore, there is a need for more and better democracy education that looks towards a global horizon, and reflecting global social justice.  Global learning becomes a core element of democracy promotion. 

This webinar will focus on the relationship between Democracy Education and Global Learning on an empirical basis. The objective is to explore the perspectives for democracy promotion in Global Learning.

Four studies will be presented:

• First, Jana Costa (Germany) will explain which conceptions of citizenship underpin the survey of global competencies in the 2018 PISA survey, this policy agenda set on a global scale.
• Secondly, Louise Ohlig and Erick Msuya (Germany and Tanzania) will look closely on the conditions under which school-partnershios open up spaces for democracy learning across different learning contexts.
• Elina Kuusisto, Isolde de Groot, Ingrid Schutte and Inkeri Rissanen (Finland, Netherlands) will then investigate the civic purpose of preservice teachers in the Netherlands and Finland, exploring the question of how teachers can be prepared for democracy teaching and learning in a global horizon.
• The fourth contribution by Caroline Rau and Emmer Demorel (Germany) investigates Turkish migrants’ understanding of democracy from a world society perspective. This study shows that learning to participate should be thought of transnationally - which once again calls into question their nation-state constitution for political education and democracy learning.

This webinar relates to learning for a just, peaceful and sustainable world and focuses on the contribution of Global Learning to democracy education. Insights will be gained through empirical research, both for different groups (pre-service teachers, migrants, students) and in national, international and transnational constellations as in the in-depth analysis of the global discourse agenda.

• Chair: Susanne Timm
• Discussant: Annette Scheunpflug

Keywords: democracy, discourse, preservice teacher, migrants, preservice teacher

Format & Sessions

This event will last around 90 minutes and will be hosted via Zoom.  Please register via Zoom using the button below. After the presentations, there will be opportunites to ask the presenters questions.

Speakers

Professor Annette Dr. Dr. h.c. Scheunpflug leads the Chair for Foundation in Education at the University in Bamberg/Germany. Her research and teaching interests focus since long on global learning, social justice and quality development of sub-Saharan education systems, among others. She has been Chair of the Board of the Global Education Network of Europe since 2019.

Dr. Inkeri Rissanen (docent) is a lecturer of multicultural education at Tampere University, whose research interests include teachers' intercultural professionalism, religions and worldviews in education and social psychological perspectives to intercultural education. 

Dr. Elina Kuusisto works as a University Lecturer in the domain of diversity and inclusive education at the Tampere University. She also holds a Title of Docent at the University of Helsinki. Her research interests include teacher ethics and school pedagogy.

Emmer Demorel is a doctoral researcher working on democracy education, global learning and migration at the University of Bamberg, Germany.

Louise Ohlig is a PhD candidate at Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences and works as a project manager in development cooperation in the education sector in Tanzania on school partnerships. 

Dr. Caroline Rau is a research assistant at the University of Bamberg. Her research interests are culture-related teacher training and education, humanities subject domain, democracy education.

Dr. Susanne Timm works as research assistant at the University of Bamberg, focused on global learning, democracy education, professional development toward culture and differences as condition of education.
 

The ANGEL Webinar Series

This event is part of a series of online events run by the Academic Network for Global Education & Learning. The series is aimed at Global Education professionals, as well as anyone with an interest in research in the fields of Development Education, Global Citizenship Education, Human Rights Education, Education for Sustainable Development, Education for Peace, and Intercultural Education. This event, along with the other activities of the ANGEL network, is co-funded by the European Union.*

* The establishment of this network and website has been made possible with funding support from the European Commission. The activities and publications of the network are the responsibilities of the organisers, the Development Education Research Centre, and can in no way be seen as reflecting the views of the European Commission.