Professor Sarah Jones Sarah-Louise.Jones@hull.ac.uk
Professor of Global Education
Professor Sarah Jones Sarah-Louise.Jones@hull.ac.uk
Professor of Global Education
In a shrinking, more connected world where we all face common challenges, such as those posed by economic recessions, conflicts or climate change, the acquisition of Global Competencies has become increasingly important (OECD, 2018 & 2009; EU, 2018; Picardo, 2012; Facer, 2011; Clifford and Montgomery, 2011). Countries across Europe face increasing challenges, for example the integration of newly arrived peoples through the migration crisis, the rise in nationalism, preparing our youth for life in a digitally interconnected global society, where they face uncertain futures as we enter what some argue is the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Schwab, 2016). Such challenges require people to become Globally Competent, developing skills, knowledge, values, attitudes and understandings that enable us to live and work effectively in diverse societies.
However, Reimers (2009) suggests that the teaching of Global Competency is hindered from becoming a reality through what he terms as “an obsolete mind-set” where the compartmentalization of curricula prevents teachers from approaching their subject from an interdisciplinary perspective. Moreover, if educators themselves are not Globally Competent, it is unlikely that they will be able to develop this in their students (Gaudelli, 2016).
Although there has been some work done in schools around Global Competency, this has not been effectively addressed within Higher Education programmes (Gaudelli, 2016; West, 2012; Zhao, 2010; Longview Foundation 2009) so that new teachers leaving university are both unaware of the need for Global Competency, nor have the skills to integrate the teaching of such competencies within the curricula.
This project directly addresses this challenge by working with Teacher Educators and Trainee Teachers across the EU to achieve its key objective: to develop future cohorts of teachers who are both Globally Competent themselves, but also have the skills to develop Global Competency in their students.
Project Acronym | GCTE |
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Status | Project Live |
Value | £90,971.00 |
Project Dates | Sep 1, 2019 - Aug 31, 2025 |
Learning without borders (Thailand) Mar 1, 2017 - Aug 31, 2018
A workshop that will exploit the proven educational and social benefits of using mobile technologies in settings where access to learning is restricted. It includes fieldwork and the development of basic literacy and numeracy, promoting self-directed...
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Designing and Evaluating Innovative Mobile Pedagogies Sep 1, 2017 - Jul 31, 2023
This project aims to strengthen the professional profile of both teacher educators and teachers in schools by enhancing their capacity to use digital technologies (mobile devices) in ways that are innovative and promote new teaching methods and pedag...
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Erasmus - International Skills Inventory and Training Programme for Global Citizens Sep 1, 2015 - Jul 31, 2020
GCRF 2019 PPF17: Enabling scalability of the reading to learn methodology in STEM education using video observations in South African township schools Feb 1, 2019 - Jul 31, 2019
This project will develop the capacity of teachers working in underprivileged township schools in Johannesburg, to teach students how to read for the purpose of learning and understanding ‘threshold concepts’ those concepts that are core to a subject...
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Building a Research Infrastructure for School Teachers Sep 1, 2019 - Aug 31, 2025
Every day, teachers around the world make decisions about how to help learners and need easy to access and up to date evidence to inform those decisions, because as Barber and Mourshed pointedly state, “the quality of an education system cannot excee...
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