Title: Developing Global Perspectives in the Classroom
Tutors: Brinder Rajpal, Academic Development
Place and Date: Portal House 1st Floor Room 5 and 6 - 08/10/2019 14:00 - 16:00
Embedding global perspectives in curricula addresses the challenges of preparing and empowering students to play an active role in a complex global context, where issues such as unsustainable development, social injustice, poverty, conflict and change, require new ways of thinking, working, and indeed being. Global perspective is about enabling individual students to challenge and ultimately act to transform the nature of the society in which they live and work. Global perspectives in teaching promotes active understanding of the global dimension including values and attitudes concerned with interdependence, sustainable development, global inequality, social justice, human rights, connections between the local and global society, and responsible citizenship. Global perspectives and citizenship recognises our world is an increasingly complex web of connections and interdependencies. One in which our choices and actions may have repercussions for people and communities locally, nationally or internationally.
Global perspectives within HE develops learners who:
• understand global issues
• make connections between local & global events
• have deeper understanding of their own situation in a wider context
• have skills and knowledge to interpret events affecting our lives
• are aware of global processes
• value the need for sustainable development
• are able to work sensitively internationally in a multi cultural environment
• learn from experiences elsewhere in the world
Developing Students’ Global Perspectives starts with awareness (Understanding, recognising perspectives, etc), and continues to global competence (integrating knowledge & awareness with skill of application, and taking action). Developing students’ global perspectives does NOT require substituting out content or WHAT we teach (necessarily), it’s about HOW we teach and deliver.