Shared Knowledge: exploring global citizenship in a multicultural classroom - Kamala Balu Dr Dawn Williams University of Westminster
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Shared Knowledge: exploring global citizenship in a multicultural classroom Kamala Balu Dr Dawn Williams University of Westminster
Structure of Presentation • What is the project about? • Why did we do it? • How did we go about it? • What did the students learn? • Some challenges and questions
Aims of our curriculum development
project and methodology
• How to develop mind-sets of global citizens
within an ‘in-house’ module, drawing on the
multicultural knowledge of the students?
• How do Business and Management students
understand the concept of global citizenship? Do
they see it as desirable and possible?
• Reflective Journals
Ranked 1st in the UK,
US, Australia and
New Zealand for
international
student diversity,
with students from
169 countries
Global in
Outlook
Ranked 14th in the
world in Times A history of
Higher Education inclusiveness and
International widening
Student Table (May participation
2018)
Application of Distinctiveness
“Cultural Differences and People Management” Module
Experiential: seminar and workshop
Interactive activities in multicultural groups
Exploring student’s Explore similarities Develop global
own cultural and differences in citizenship
journey cultures Cultural differences
Cultural shock and Cultural intelligence to common shared
adaptation & competence humanity
Learning from global communities and
inclusivity
Some notions of global citizenship have been criticised
for contributing to and reflecting a social divide.
We were interested in a more inclusive approach
Block. D. (2012) in J. Henderson ‘HEA Teaching global citizenship: A Case Study in Applied Linguistics’. Paper
Presented at HEA conference at Oxford Brookes, 18 May 2012: ‘Exploring global citizenship: from
cosmopolitanism ideal to class politics’.
Bothwell, E. (2017)’Global Citizenship in HE is a ‘loaded’ and ‘patronising’ concept’ Times Education
Supplement (TES), 4 February 2017.
Ferguson, C. (2013) Guardian Comment, Monday 25 November 2013.
Experiential: working in multicultural groups.
Global Citizenship as …
Moral sense
of A way of
responsibility Thinking
to others
Global
Citizenship
Self - as Awareness
Awareness of others
Cultural
empathy
Clifford, V. and C. Montgomery (2014) ‘Challenging Conceptions of Western Higher Education and Promoting Graduates as Global Citizens’ Higher Education Quarterly,
Volume 68, No. 1, January 2014, pp 28–45.
Global Citizenship as …
•Someone who :
– “is aware of the wider world and has a
sense of their own role as a world citizen
– respects and values diversity
– is willing to act to make the world a more
equitable and sustainable place” (Oxfam).
https://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/who-we-are/what-is-global-citizenship
Examples we gave to students
HSBC Global Citizen Advert 2018
http://www.open.edu/blue-planet-II/Blue-Planet-II-OpenLearn-Open-University.html
Euston Station London
Christmas Day dinner 2017
for London homeless
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/railway-station-stages-christmas-day-banquet-for-londons-
homeless-36436457.html
University of Westminster
and University of Rwanda
partnership to help
develop collaborative
Projects, July 2017Curriculum Development project: The
workshops – from conceptualisation to
enactment
Activity 1: Tony Buzan: Group mind-maps : What does global
citizenship mean to you?
Activity 2: Multicultural groups to research and present their
chosen case study examples of global citizenship
Activity 3: Peer coaching
in pairs using the GROW Model and
production of postersExamples students gave to us
Iceland has outlined
a five year aim to
replace plastic packaging
.
University of Westminster
‘Go Green Initiative’
Nicki Minaj and other music artists
Met President Obama to discuss
Social inequality issuesExamples students gave to us
Make up for a
wider set of skin
shades: Pro Filt’r
https://www.fentybeauty.com/pro-filtr/soft-matte-longwear-foundation/FB30006.html
‘Cheddar Man’:
ancient skeleton
challenges our
‘single story’ of
Britains) –
perception of
appearance
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dna-tests-on-an-ancient-skeleton-reveal-the-first-briton-had-dark-skinStudent enactment posters: Themes
Internships Job applications
Sustainability Spreading awareness
Volunteering Recycling
Travel
Consumer consciousness
Organising event on migration and identity lossHow students found the workshops
It is each and
everyone’s job to look
Global citizenship is not a phrase heard before
after the world we are
taking this module or really understood
living in and the people
we live amongst
Everyone can
Studying global
contribute their own
Can we feel global citizenship broadens a
share in making this
citizens or are we only cultural perspective,
planet a better place,
products of a place? seeing how it can
and we should all take
enrich lives
responsibility for that
“If you are too small to
make a difference try
sleeping in a tent with
a mosquito”We and the students were able to learn from each other …
Our acknowledgment goes to the students on the module this year
Who shared their thoughts with us
Dr Dawn Williams: email D.E.Williams@westminster.ac.uk
Kamala Balu: email baluk@westminster.ac.ukQuestions • How do we help students understand ‘global citizenship’ and at the same time allow for creativity? • How do we help students to think about moving from the ‘ideal big concept’ to enactment in their ‘small lives’?
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