Event Description
This Colloquium explores what is possible and problematic of global citizenship education in the onset of a new-nationalist era signaled by the rise of right-populism. The presentation briefly traces the recent globalist period (1990-2016) with respect to its educational features; and specifically explores the rise of neoliberalism covalent with globalization that drives the ‘global education’ enterprise coupled with enduring, humanistic efforts to teach for peace, justice and sustainability in a fragile, planetary society. This paper draws upon two recent related studies, the first being those encompassed in GCE: Everyday Transcendence (Gaudelli, 2016) and a forthcoming multinational study of global education in three global cities. The question that the author seeks to address is the prognosis for GCED in the next decade given the wider social changes underway that both buttress and confound efforts to teach for and about global citizenship.
William Gaudelli is professor and chair of the Department of Arts and Humanities at Teachers College, Columbia University. His research areas include global citizenship education and teacher education/development. Dr. Gaudelli has published over 50 scholarly pieces in journals, including Teachers College Record, Teaching Education, Theory and Research in SocialEducation, The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, The Journal of Aesthetic Education and Teaching and Teacher Education along with two books. His third book, Global Citizenship Education: Everyday Transcendence, offers an analysis of global citizenship education in various locales globally. Dr. Gaudelli is a frequent keynoter at international conferences and guest lecturer at various universities, having previously served as an executive board member of the John Dewey Society and College and University Faculty Assembly for the National Council for the Social Studies.
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