I was worrying away last week about the plethora of phrases that begin "global ...". Global citizenship is a prime example. Then, what should cross by desktop but this:
Dear All,
Please find attached an invitation to the next DERC seminar: ‘Living Global Citizenship and International Partnerships’
Tuesday 2nd December, 17:00; London International Development Centre (LIDC), 36 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD
The speakers are Mark Potts and Jack Whitehead, authors of new book on International Educational Development and Learning Through Sustainable Partnerships - Living Global Citizenship.
The speakers will explain the origins of the idea of Living Global Citizenship in a sustained international partnership between two schools and in living educational theory. They will explain why they think Living Global Citizenship has epistemological significance for the generation of educational knowledge and why it is significant for those involved in international development work to engage in self-studies of their own influence in enquiries of the kind, ‘How do I improve what I am doing?’ in ways that avoid colonisation.
Given that development education has been having a tough time recently, this could just be the turn it requires. Sadly, I cannot be there. The book's blurb says:
How can we deal with immigration? What is meant by effective citizenship? How can we implement the Big Society and reduce cultural tensions? This book offers a new form of citizenship education based on a Living Global Citizenship approach that allows participants to demonstrate values such as cultural empathy. This alternative pedagogy for the delivery of effective citizenship education within any cultural setting creates a new meaning for the term 'cultural education'. Living Global Citizenship projects allow participants from different communities to take ownership of their priorities for development and the long-term transformation of their own communities. They provide a way of delivering authentic citizenship education through an international educational partnership that enables participants to critically assess their values and to develop meaningful relationships from which new understandings emerge to challenge the predominant view of development
So, we now have "Living Global Citizenship" to add to mere "Global Citizenship". Such a surfeit of riches.
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