Event Description
Drexel University School of Education's Global Education Colloquium Series Presents:
Riding the Wave? Human Rights Education
within the World Culture of UNESCO's Global Citizenship Education
Dr. Felisa Tibbits
Teachers College of Columbia University
This presentation examines if and how human rights education can be found within UNESCO's Global Citizenship Education framework. It does so through an examination of key UNESCO documents and indicators, and then applies this analysis a sampling of national curriculum to see what these indicators reveal in regards the presence of GCED-related curriculum themes and educational aims within these curriculum. The four contexts sampled include: Cambodia, Mongolia, Uganda and the United States (New Jersey State). Findings suggest the absence of the notion of “world culture” as presented in the Global Citizenship themes and learning objectives and associated indicators. Moreover any existing references to globalization that were found, referred primarily to its economic dimension, reinforcing the importance of national development and human capital theory of education. Results suggest that the world culture of Global Citizenship Education may end up revealing or reinforcing existing orientations towards a neo-liberal approach to education.
Dr. Felisa Tibbitts is a Lecturer in the Comparative and International Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests include peace, human rights and democratic citizenship education; curriculum policy and reform; critical pedagogy; and education and social movements. She was a Fulbright Fellow at Lund University, Sweden (Fall 2014) and a Human Rights Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2011-2013).
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