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Educating the Global Citizen: International Perspectives on Foreign Language Teaching in the Digital Age

25.03.2019, 19:00 Uhr - 28.03.2019, 14:00 Uhr

Hauptgebäude der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
Bayern
Deutschland
gced2019@lmu.de

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In times of rapid and unprecedented global sociocultural change, urgent calls are being made for salient educational responses to current global and digital challenges. Such calls are being met in (re)formulations of global (citizenship) education, sustainability education, and service learning, which endeavor to promote a democratic and human rights culture in schools and the larger community. Foreign language education is increasingly responding to these developments by updating and transforming FL pedagogies. In support of this nascent trajectory, this conference will engage with the epistemological and critical foundations of educating future global citizens across varied contexts. Accordingly, our aim is to explore citizenship and sustainability education from a wide range of perspectives, also interdisciplinary in scope, as regards developing theories, research and practice in FL education. We are additionally interested in how global education performs on a local level as well as in increasingly interconnected environments, and how digital settings, practices and methodologies are consequently implicated. In light of these trajectories, we welcome contributions that discuss, (re)negotiate and reflect on global (citizenship) education in theory and practice from an international perspective.