Education for global citizenship and intervention projects in a training program for future teachers

• Autor(a) principal: Simões, Ana Raquel
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Tomaz, Carlota
• 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.v10i1.11363

Teacher education programs have to tackle ‘a world of supercomplexity’ (Ling, 2017) we live in and prepare future teachers to develop students’ competences in/for a globalized world.Global citizenship education is one of the possible ways to address this challenge, as it seeks to develop students’ knowledge, values, attitudes and skills required to succeed in an increasingly globalized society with the end goal of creating a more just, peaceful and democratic world.This paper presents a study within a teacher education program with six prospective teachers enrolled in the third and final year of a Basic Education degree in a Portuguese Higher Education Institution. The students developed two projects aimed to develop their understanding of global citizenship education, as well as their professional and personal development while they were designing and implementing group intervention projects in two different schools. Data were collected through two group reports (one at the end of each semester) and two individual reflections (one per semester).Results from this study suggest that the students developed knowledge on global citizenship education and its methodologies, as well as skills to reflect about the effects of the implemented projects on the pupils and also on themselves as future educators/teachers. Still, they found global citizenship education difficult to operationalize, namely due to curricular and time constraints and to the need to develop a more complex understanding of the different roles played by teachers in schools. These findings show the need to provide more support and knowledge to future teachers to help them integrate global citizenship education in their professional identity.