|
This interdisciplinary third year module explores culture, colonisation, migration, racism, activism, interculturalism and white privilege and builds upon learning from the DICE module in second year. ‘Think Globally, Teach Locally’ promotes critical reflection using a ‘Pedagogy of Discomfort’ (Boler, 1999) as an approach to teaching and learning that has the capacity to disorient, disrupt and unsettle, to challenge what learners think they already know, and to support them in acquiring new thinking about themselves, the world and others. The role of education in a globalised world is explored and ‘othering’ and ethnocentrism in the formal Irish education system are critiqued and challenged. Multiple perspectives are provided through guest lecturers sharing their narrative experiences. Student confidence and competence in global citizenship education is enhanced through the addition of a discrete placement opportunity, where student teachers plan a station teaching exercise on a ‘controversial issue’. This placement is hosted by Castaheany Educate Together NS, Ongar, Dublin 15.
|