300117 Teaching Globalization and Global Citizenship (Fachdidaktische Vertiefung, pol. Schwerpunkt) (S) (SoSe 2013)

The processes of globalisation (and many other phenomena closely connected to globalisation, like glocalisation, transformation, transnational migration and Europeanisation) cannot but influence the development of citizenship in the modern world. On the one side, citizenship cannot be exclusively attached to a conception of the national state anymore, for due to the enlargement of supra-national units supra-national citizenship emerges (thus, conceptions of citizenship office, rights, duties and participation change enormously). At the same time, migration societies house large numbers of non-citizens, whose rights and participation possibilities and capacities cannot be easily accommodated within classical single-nation-state conception of citizenship. On the other side, globalized conceptions of citizenship without attachment to political units emerge: like global ecological citizenship, technological citizenship etc. Global conceptions of rights (Human Rights) seek to complete or to replace nation-based conceptions of citizenship.
Many actors are involved in the process of the emergence and formation of new conceptions of citizenship: On the level of policies, international and national political units invest a lot into the development of new practices of citizenship, of citizens’ commitment and participation on the international or global level. International NGOs are also active in the sphere of global citizenship’s development. Individual actors follow their participation strategies along their understanding of citizenship office inside and beyond political and legal regulations.

Among many other policies and practices, education for multiculturalism and global citizenship is of central importance for the emergence of global citizenship. This kind of education is very prominent on the international level, as carried out both by political units and global NGOs. Educators (actors of the educational system on all levels) are challenged to orient themselves in the complex field of education for global citizenship and multiculturalism, and bring these forms of education into the framework of (school) curricula. Also within German school curricula questions of addressing and teaching for global citizenship are relevant within the fields of global political structures and processes, global ecology, citizens’ participation. Education towards global citizenship provides specific ways of addressing citizenship within a migration society and of opening an active perspective on participation beyond the scope of conventional participation forms.

This seminar starts with theoretical foundations (from social sciences) of citizenship’s conceptualization beyond the borders of the nation state; continues with insights into international policies and organisations, responsible for global citizenship and multiculturalism; discusses the possibilities and necessities to address global-European-German citizen (positions) in a teaching plan; analyses educational conceptions (international and local) towards multiculturalism and global citizenship and provides skills for critical analysis of existing conceptions and well as for the development of such concepts for school.

Requirements for participation, required level

Working language of seminar is "English"; the seminar is relevant for bi-lingual teaching of social sciences. Further on the working language of seminar corresponds to its agenda setting and to the materials analysed.

Bibliography

The detailed list of references will be send to all participants before the beginning of the seminar.