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Citizenship in a Global Age:
The Global
Source Educators' Collaborative
Program Highlights from:
Contemporary World Issues & Citizenship: Bridging the Global & Local in Classrooms & Communities
October 14, 2006
Hosted at Edmonds-Woodway High School, and presented in collaboration with Washington State Council for the Social Studies Fall In-service
This fall, a group of 30 social studies educators and graduate education students from around the state gathered to share their ideas, objectives, and strategies for teaching and learning about Contemporary World Issues and Citizenship Education, and to discuss our ability to help students to think and act around the interdependence of global and local concerns. This program followed and featured the resources and outcomes generated from Global Source’s Summer Retreat on Citizenship in a Global Age. Below are participant's responses to some of the guided questions we posed during the program.
What are the key signs and characteristics of citizenship?
- Awareness, knowledge, engagement
- Bravery
- Bridges across political and ideological lines
- Commitment
- Community organization
- Compassion
- Internalizing the idea of rights
- Involvement
- Involving others
- Knowledge of your own government
- Listening
- Moral leadership
- Opportunity
- Power of civil disobedience
- Responsibility
- Rising to a challenge
- Social responsibility
- Taking a stand
- Taking part in the democratic process
- The good of the many outweighs the wants of the few
- Understanding one’s voice
- Using one’s voice
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What does it mean to educate for responsible citizenship?
- Art of engaging dialogue
- Discerning citizenship and patriot patriotism
- Forming opinions, defending your position
- Forms of political, social, and civic participation- activism
- Information access/media literacy
- Knowledge of rights
- Making it matter
- Multiple perspectives
- Offering assets
- Practicing mechanisms of democracy
- Praxis
- Safe classroom environments
- Understanding the various roles of citizens
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What are the pedagogical principles that create the environment for an active, engaged education to foster responsible citizenship?
- Adopt a local issues for the class to study and address
- Become CWI specialists on a topic of choice
- Create a community service requirement
- Create a school constitutions/bill of rights (i.e. models at Spectrum Community School and Breidablik Elementary School in North Kitsap School District)
- Dialogue with local officials
- Have students form a consideration/position to address with their school board
- Hold a teach-in style program on an issue for your school or community
- Learn about social movements (interview community leaders and activists)
- Practice Civic engagement
- Practice Service learning
- Study Civil disobedience
- Volunteer
- Write a letter to a legislator
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Describe the anatomy of a meaningful contemporary world issue/problem.
- Accessing history through the framework of what is important today
- Impact on student
- Its relationship to aspects of our culture
- Personal relevance to students
- So what? factor
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What are the compelling global-local issues that belong in this type of curriculum?
- Affordable housing
- Childrens’ rights
- Conflicts over resources
- Globalization (Free and Fair Trade)
- Health Care
- Human Rights and UDHR
- Media (ownership & control)
- Migration
- Paving the planet
- Population
- Poverty
- Relationship
- Segregation in education
- Study of United Nations, World Bank, WTO, and other world bodies
- Terrorism
- War
• Highlights from our 2006 Summer Retreat
• Suggested Reading
• Home Page
The Educators' Collaborative thanks the Washington State Council for the Social Studies for their support and for providing the Collaborative an on-going venue for host our programs.
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Educators' Collaborative, please
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