Global Citizenship: Education in an Interconnected Global Space

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Abstract

Today’s pupils live in an interconnected globalised world where they can connect, communicate, collaborate and create with their global peers. Time and location are no longer barriers to learning with pupils in other communities and countries due to digital platforms providing online global spaces that enable collaborative learning. In education, pupils engaging in online collaborative learning with their global peers have two main benefits: developing the necessary skills for their future employability and developing an understanding of interculturalism, diversity and inclusion to enable them to interact harmoniously in multicultural societies. It also enables pupils to work towards achieving aspects of the United Nations’ (2021) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) through providing an inclusive and equitable quality education (SDG4) that promotes peace, justice and inclusion (SDG16) where inequalities are reduced across countries (SDG10) and where partnerships are enabled (SDG17). This chapter gives examples of how through collaborative learning online, pupils can develop their intercultural awareness of the world they live in by exploring similarities and differences between their own lives and those of their global peers alongside engaging with complex global issues.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTeaching and Learning with Technologies in the Primary School
EditorsSarah Younie, Marilyn Leask
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter22
Pages270-284
Number of pages14
Edition3rd
ISBN (Electronic)9781003408925
ISBN (Print)9781032528823, 9781032528847
Publication statusPublished - 6 May 2024

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