Dr. Karen Pashby - Reading Critical Internationalisation Through Global Citizenship Education

About this Lecture: In this video, Dr. Karen Pashby introduces the concept of global citizenship education and its contestations. She presents a novel heuristic developed through the Ethical Internationalisation in Higher Education project to map the distinctions and overlaps within and between not only three main discursive orientations to education in a context of globalisation—neoliberal, liberal and critical—but also their interfaces. She then reviews key findings and analyses from a meta-review of typologies of global citizenship education (Pashby et al., 2020) and a follow-on analysis of interfaces with critical discursive orientations to global citizenship education. Building from methodological, epistemological, and ontological levels of analysis, she considers distinctions between critical-liberal, critical, and critical-post-critical interfaces in typologies and how these help to consider recent empirical literature on critical GCE in formal education. She argues for the ongoing need for reflexivity in order to be both strategic in the ways we engage with mainstream approaches to GCE and very aware of the potential for circular discussions that foreclose possibilities for significantly new ways of engaging in ethical praxis. About the Speaker: Dr. Karen Pashby is Reader (equiv. Associate Professor) at Manchester Metropolitan University, Docent (equiv. Adjunct Professor) at University of Helsinki, and Adjunct Professor at University of Alberta. She co-leads the Global Futures in Education research group at the Education and Social Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan and teaches in undergraduate and graduate programs. An experienced secondary school educator and teacher educator, her research engages theoretical and empirical research in the fields of global citizenship education and internationalisation, drawing on critical and post/de-colonial theoretical resources. Recent work, supported by the British Academy and Swedish Research Council, brings together critical scholarship in both environmental and sustainability education and global citizenship education with classroom practices in England, Finland, and Sweden. ______________________ This masterclass is completely free. However, if you appreciate this resource and have the means to give back, then we encourage you to contribute to an emergency fund that will go toward supporting some of the many Indigenous communities featured in the second series of videos. These communities take a very different approach to international education than many of us are used to, and in doing so they raise questions that are extremely important for the sake of everybody’s future. You can also join and support the Last Warning campaign, of which many Indigenous communities featured in the second series of videos are a part. This campaign seeks to educate people about the importance of centering Indigenous peoples’ rights in the struggle for climate justice. This campaign takes a very different approach to international education than many of us are used to, but it raises questions that are extremely important for the sake of everybody’s future. Emergency Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/south-amer... Last Warning Campaign: https://lastwarning.org/ Critical Internationalization Studies Network: https://criticalinternationalization.... Music by JayJen @jayjenmusic https://soundcloud.com/jayjenmusic