Global Education

http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/nscentre/GE/GE-Guidelines/GEgs-chap1.pdf

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Definitions and declarations

Global education is an education perspective which arises from the fact that contemporary people live and interact in an increasingly globalised world. This makes it crucial for education to give learners the opportunity and competences to reflect and share their own point of view and role within a global, interconnected society, as well as to understand and discuss complex relationships of common social, ecological, political and economic issues, so as to derive new ways of thinking and acting. however, global education should not be presented as an approach that we may all accept uncritically, since we already know there are dilemmas, tensions, doubts and different perceptions in an education process when dealing with global issues.
there are many definitions of global education. the Maastricht  global  education  declaration (2002)
states:
Global education is education that opens people’s eyes and minds to the realities of the globalised world and
awakens them to bring about a world of greater justice, equity and Human Rights for all.
Global education is understood to encompass Development Education, Human Rights Education, Education for Sustainability, Education for Peace and Conflict Prevention and Intercultural Education; being the global dimension
of Education for Citizenship.

Global education as transformative learning process in these guidelines we want to look at the role of global education and question attitudes, moving from the culture of individualism, often associated with dominance, to a culture of partnership based on dialogue and cooperation.

 The first cultural model characterises educational systems in many countries where global themes and building consciousness of world realities are not thought to be relevant to national visions. On the other hand the partnership model can lead to international understanding and cooperation between nations and peoples aspects of domination exist in so many different facets of our societies and are deeply rooted in the structures of education systems the present model of education reflects this dominance to a large extent. 

Criticism against it underlines that this model leads to adversarial relationships between individuals and between peoples, particularly if they belong to different cultures, religions, social groups or ways of thinking.What is global education? 13 by separating subjects and categorising them we have created hierarchies of knowledge and devalued other ways of learning the detachment that is created by this process of compartmentalised education does not place us in a connected world and so we have been unable to build bridges to approach, get to know and understand others.

Global education is about implementing the vision required to move to a model of partnership between peoples, cultures and religions at micro and macro levels transformative learning through global education involves a deep, structural shift in the basic premises of thoughts, feelings and actions. Tt is an education for the mind as well as for the heart. This implies a radical
change towards interconnectedness and creates possibilities for achieving more equality, social justice, understanding and cooperation amongst peoples.

Three main stages of transformative learning are strongly linked to global education:
• An analysis of the present world situation
• A vision of what alternatives to dominant models might look like
• A process of change towards responsible global citizenship
global education as transformative learning implies participatory decision-making processes at all these stages.
 The goal of this kind of learning is to foster mutual knowledge and collective self-awareness.

 Global education challenges greed, inequality and egocentrism through cooperation and solidarity instead of dividing people through competition, conflict, fear and hatred.
Global education as transformative learning offers a way to make changes at local levels to influence the global in the sense of building citizenship through participatory strategies and methods, so that people learn by taking responsibilities that cannot be left only to governments and other decision makers.
At both micro and macro levels global education brings together the agendas of different fields of education:
development  education, human rights  education,  education for sustainability,  education for  peace and Conflict prevention, intercultural and interfaith education, the global dimension of education for Citizenship
etc. - in order to define the common grounds of global education.
This will create a real impact on both formal education and non-formal education, which has a huge role to play in bringing people towards a wider understanding of their real power to shape the future.but global education is not only about global themes, world problems and how to find solutions all together.
It is also about how to envision a common future with better life conditions for all, connecting local and global perspectives, and how to make this vision real and possible, starting from our own small spot in the world.

Transformative learning enables people to shape a common vision for a more just, sustainable world for all. A focus on the kind of future we want is therefore crucial in such a transformative vision.
Global education can contribute to the visioning process, but it can also play a role in the creation of new methods where social movements and non-formal learning processes are essential as they make room for values, issues and
approaches not central to formal learning and give voice to all people, including the marginalised ones.
By shifting the focus onto the transformation from a culture of reproduction and dominance to one of partnership based on dialogue and cooperation, global education modifies established global economy rules by restoring
human dignity as a central value.