Global Citizenship Education is a complex undertaking, encompassing IT-literacy and the promotion of peace and diversity. It suggests a deep overhaul of our ways of thinking, teaching, and looking at the world.
Neither the MENA governments nor the international community can afford to let the region’s young down. It is time to effect change to give MENA youth what they really need to succeed: jobs above all else.
It represents a backward view of knowledge, it entrenches racial thinking, and it presents a degraded view of black students.
This is not a project that one racial group can claim sole custodianship over. It is a concerted effort to bring into dialogue, and even contestation, locally-theorised knowledge from Africa with knowledge from across continents.
Can education, notions of deliberative democracy and intercultural integration come together to rescue our dysfunctional democracies?
“As you well know, there is a lot of inequality in American schools and schooling… and a whole emphasis on standardised tests, especially in schools of the kids of the poor.”
Basically, political decision-making should not be win-or-lose, as facilitated by the most ancient, primitive, divisive and inaccurate measure of collective opinion ever invented.
A highly innovative German school programme uses dialogue to move beyond the us versus them of our polarised societies. We find out how well this works. Interview.
“Build the Wall! Build the Wall! BUILD THE WALL!” Update from the US professor of the philosophy of education who was president of the John Dewey Society 2009 - 2011.
“It cannot be right, that people can grow up and go to school and hardly ever come into meaningful contact with people from other backgrounds and faiths.” David Cameron, July 2015.
Does an 11 year old who has been told they have failed seem to you like someone who is really going to rally behind learning?
UK political developments over the last twenty years have seen a growing acceptance of the idea of comprehensive education. But that acceptance of non-selective schools is based on a profound, hostile rejection of progressive ideas.
