PdF:SOe302 Global Learning and Social Jus - Course Information
SOe302 Global Learning and Social Justice
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. et Mgr. Markéta Košatková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Jana Obrovská, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Zdeněk Janík, M.A., Ph.D. (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- Mgr. et Mgr. Markéta Košatková, Ph.D.
Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. et Mgr. Markéta Košatková, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Education – Faculty of Education (50,00 %), Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education (50,00 %) - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- SOUHLAS
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
- Course objectives
- The course focuses on theories that discuss the globality of the world and the possibilities of social justice. What is social justice and how it is relevant to international/global education? This course will seek to untangle the issues surrounding social justice and global education. The course offers students a chance to take a critical look at the role of education and their own place as scholars in the field of global education.
- Learning outcomes
- Students will be able to identify the characteristics of the contemporary world with a focus on structural inequalities and global justice. Students will be able to identify and describe different global and local manifestations of culture and discern cultural complexities. Students will be able to critically analyze their own cultural norms and biases and describe how these affect their world-view. Students will be able to draw upon personal experiences and class learning to develop common ground for interactions with others. Students will be able to identify, describe, and analyze important social issues from multiple cultural perspectives. Students will be able to engage with diverse groups of people and be sensitive to local and global cultures. Students will be able to identify and describe how power, positionality, privilege, structural injustice, and other socio-structural factors impact their life.
- Syllabus
- 1) Social justice as a construct (interdisciplinary perspective)
- 2) Globalization, migration
- 3) Identity, culture, culturally and religiously sensitive approach
- 4) Intercultural competences
- 5) Structural inequalities
- 6) Transnational perspective
- 7) Geopolitical engagements
- 8) Classrooms, Pedagogy and Practicing social justice
- Literature
- required literature
- Capitalism and freedomthe contradictory character of globalisation. Edited by Peter Nolan. London: Anthem Press, 2008, viii, 345. ISBN 9781843313595. info
- recommended literature
- Hajisoteriou C, Angelides P. Efficiency versus social justice? Teachers’ roles in the epoch of globalisation. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice. 2020;15(3):274-289. doi:10.1177/1746197919852564
- FERGUSON, Iano, Michael LAVALETTE a Elizabeth WHITMORE. Globalisation, global justice, and social work. London: Routledge, 2005. ix, 253. ISBN 0415325382
- Clusters and globalisation : he development of urban and regional economies. Edited by Christos Pitelis - Roger Sugden - James R. Wilson. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006, xv, 321. ISBN 1843766752. URL info
- Teaching methods
- discussion, lecture, analysis of texts (research article), COIL methods with international students from another university
- Assessment methods
- written test, project
- Language of instruction
- English
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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