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Do you want to enhance your diversity competence and digital responsibility as an educator? Do you want to increase your knowledge and understanding of global education and global digital citizenship in multilingual and multicultural education contexts? Take this course and learn to develop strategies to respond to diversity and develop your digital responsibility as an educator.
Most countries have experienced growing diversities in recent decades as a result of migration as well as historical minorities. All school levels are facing complex challenges as well as opportunities in responding to growing diversities. In this context, many teachers claim that they lack training and high burnout rates are reported among teachers (OECD, 2018). This course, Sustainable Global Citizenship Education addresses the needs for knowledge and training for teachers working in diverse multilingual contexts.
The aims of this course are to develop competencies with respect to diversity in multilingual and multicultural contexts; to develop understanding of digital responsibility and the development of responsible digital behaviour in relation to the aforementioned; and to develop an understanding of global citizenship education.
The aims of module 1 are to introduce the main concepts addressed in the course.
The aims of modules 2 and 3 are
1) To enhance teachers’ intercultural and linguistic sensitivity, their agency and their ability to adopt a linguistically and culturally responsive teaching methodology.
2) To increase students’ awareness of (i) the wealth of human languages and the value of language learning and (ii) cultural diversity in order to help them develop skills and knowledge leading to plurilingual and intercultural competence.
3) To develop teachers’ and students’ metalinguistic and cross-linguistic awareness as means to achieving a positive attitude towards language learning and improve their academic achievements in this area.
The aims of modules 4 and 5 are:
1) To increase awareness and understanding of global citizenship in the digital world.
2) To empower educators' identity for the global digital world.
3) Analyse memorable learning experiences in a globalised world.
By the end of this course, you should have improved your knowledge and understanding of different aspects of diversity, multilingual and multicultural education, digital responsibility and global citizenship education; advanced your knowledge and developed your competencies for addressing digital responsibility and diversity in the classroom.
The meaning of basic concepts such as global citizenship education, linguistically and culturally responsive teaching and digital competency.
Increase your understanding of different aspects of diversity, in relation to multicultural and multilingual contexts.
Become acquainted with linguistically and culturally responsible teaching strategies.
Develop metalinguistic and cross-linguistic awareness to promote global citizenship.
Understand and counteract online bullying and online harassment.
Learn about the importance of promoting digital responsibility.
Increase your understanding of language diversity and universal design.
Module 1: What is global citizenship education?
Lectures:
1) Introduction and the concept of global citizenship education
2) Diversity and teachers’ agency
3) Global education and digital competence
4) Multilingualism and educational systems
Module 2: Building relations between families, students and teachers
Lectures:
1) Introduction, relations and respect
2) Family language policies
3) Home-school relations, teachers’ initiative and responsibility
4) Home-school collaboration from families’ point of view
5) Funds of knowledge
6) Cultivating global citizenship with student teachers
Module 3: Multilingual pedagogies and teacher education
Lectures:
1) Introduction, languages and diverse student groups
2) Linguistically and Culturally Responsive Teaching
3) Language Awareness and pluralistic approaches to language teaching
4) Raising metalinguistic awareness in global citizenship education
5) Cross-linguistic awareness: Phonological awareness as an example
6) Cross-linguistic awareness: Orthographic awareness as an example
7) Metalinguistic awareness in metaphorical language
8) Multilingual pedagogies: A summary
Module 4: Global digital citizenship. Digital responsibility and ethics
Lectures:
1) Global digital citizenship - clarifying the term
2) Global digital citizenship
3) Digital citizenship, democracy and core principles
4) From digital citizenship to digital responsibility for educators
5) Digital ethics
6) Young people and their online identity – privacy vs. online identity
7) Understanding online bullying and online harassment
Module 5: Global digital citizenship for educators
Lectures:
1) Professional digital competence for educators
2) Global digital competence for teachers
3) The importance of universal design for learning to reach all learners
4) Language diversity and universal design
5) AI in global digital pedagogies
6) AI challenges at school
7) Artificial intelligence and multilingualism: A powerful or dangerous marriage?
