Syllabus
Main topics of lectures and seminars:1. Global education as a path to social transformation2. Discussion methods and techniques in working with global issues - philosophy for children, working with promts/stimuli in discussion, etc.3. The dangers of a single story in the education of primary school pupils4. Methodology of working with documentary film in teaching (interactive work with the film in cooperation with the One World in Schools programme)5. Working with pupils' emotions when teaching controversial topics6. Non-violent communication as a way to better cooperation and development
7. Contemporary educational models and constructs (global citizenship, global competences, intercultural competences, etc.) as tools for (self)assessment and evaluation of the impact of teaching
Annotation
Lectures and seminars will focus on selected global trends and current topics (e.g. global education, education for sustainable development, education for citizenship and implementation of formative assessment). Students will learn about current educational concepts (e.g. global citizenship, global competencies), teaching strategies and methods (e.g. non-violent communication, philosophy for children) and current global issues (e.g. migration, security and conflicts, working with pupils' emotions in primary school).
In cooperation with the One World in Schools programme (People in Need organization), students will watch documentaries on current topics and receive methodological support for working with them (jsns.cz portal). In their home preparation for seminars and in seminars themselves, students search for and work with current data sources, discuss the challenges to which education must respond, and devise strategies and procedures for responding to these changes in the school and classroom.
Course content will be updated to reflect current societal changes.