SOe312 Global Development Education in Teachers Training

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025

The course is not taught in Spring 2025

Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Zdeněk Janík, M.A., Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. et Mgr. Martina Kurowski, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. et Mgr. Martina Kurowski, Ph.D.
Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. et Mgr. Martina Kurowski, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce to the students the basics of the Global Education (GE). The students will learn some basic teaching methods of the active learning and practically they get known the global issues through their critical reflection. The students should get at the workshop the skills of the critically evaluation the objective reality and the skills of the argumentation. The students will gain the knowledge and the skill to integrate the global dimension into the learning topics.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course the student will be able to: • Describe the social, cultural and economic processes shaping the contemporary world, the main actors of globalization; • The most important global topics of the present and their possible solutions; • have an overview of trends in contemporary pedagogy and in interactive teaching methods; • to characterize institutions and organizations dealing with development cooperation issues; • Apply methods to preparation of their own GDE teaching activity; • work with the principles of critical thinking and philosophy for children; • actively use supporting informational and methodical materials.
Syllabus
  • 1. The economic interdependence of the world, the diversity of perspectives 2. Global education - The goals, topics and methods of the global education 3. The global responsibility and the active citizenship 4. What does it mean the development: the poverty and the inequality worldwide. 5. The basic methods of the active learning (the three-phase model of learning, ecperience learning, etc.) 6. The evocation questions and its relation to the goals
Literature
  • de Oliveira Andreotti, V. (2014). Soft versus critical global citizenship education. Development Education in Policy and Practice, 21(3), 40–51.
  • Hicks, D. (2008). Ways of seeing: The origins of global education in the UK. Background paper for: UK ITE network inaugural conference on education for sustainable development/global citizenship. London.
Teaching methods
workshop,
Assessment methods
Active participation in seminars (including reflection on personal experience of the seminars).
Language of instruction
English
Teacher's information
Other recommended literature: Další doporučená literatura: Bourn, D. (Ed.). (2008). Development education: Debates and dialogue. London: Institute of Education, University of London. Freire, P. (1996). Pedagogy of the opressed. London: Penguin. Freire, P. (2010). Education for critical conciousness. London: Continuum. O’Loughlin, E., & Wegimont, L. (Eds.). (2008). Global education in the Czech Republic: National report of the Czech Republic. Amsterdam: GENE.
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