Teachers can nurture students who care about the world: four approaches that would help them
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Wednesday, October 4, 2023
They are expected to be subject matter experts, leaders, administrators, managers, lifelong learners – and not just in the classroom, but in their wider communities.
Key Points:
- They are expected to be subject matter experts, leaders, administrators, managers, lifelong learners – and not just in the classroom, but in their wider communities.
- As an academic working with trainee teachers and researching social justice education, I have found four essential approaches that help future teachers develop their students into responsible global citizens.
Art and empathy
- Defamiliarisation is the artistic technique of making things that are familiar seem unusual and foreign, to disrupt the mindset.
- I have also explored how important this approach is in making students think more critically about global citizenship education.
- Develop critical empathy.
- Empathy is not enough to get students to think in more socially conscious ways.
- For example, I have used critical empathy to help my students connect to and understand each other’s struggles and experiences of the COVID pandemic.
- This fosters their development as thoughtful global citizens ready to contribute significantly to conversations about global justice and equality.