SZ6614 Global Development Education in Teachers Training

Faculty of Education
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Martina Kurowski, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Kristýna Hrubanová (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. et Mgr. Martina Kurowski, Ph.D.
Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Supplier department: Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
SZ6614/01: each even Saturday 9:00–12:50 učebna 21, K. Hrubanová
Prerequisites
The seminar is compulsory elective to the lecture on the theory and methodology of education.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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
    required 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
students´ activity
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2022.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2021, recent)
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