Global citizenship education and intercomprehension: reflections about a project developed in primary education

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Francisco Parrança da
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Andrade, Ana Isabel
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/id.v10i1.11403

This article presents the results of an education project for global citizenship developed around the idea of intercomprehension and it was carried out with children of a 2nd grade class attending a primary school in the region of Aveiro (Portugal). This is an action research study whose main purpose was to understand the place of intercomprehension in education for global citizenship of children attending the first years of schooling. To do this, seven sessions were developed over a period of three weeks allowing the collection of a broad set of data, later submitted to content analysis. With the data collected, we first analyzed the initial representations that the participating children had of Self, the Other, and the World, and then analyzed how they were changed over the course of the project. The results of the study show a transformation in children’s representations of Self, the Other and the World, which indicate the construction of a new vision of their role as global citizens. The study also reveals the significance of intercomprehension both as an educational goal and as a competence in processes of global citizenship education of school-aged children.