CMEI Dialogue
Longfellow Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education
October 17, 2016
‘Global citizenship’ can mean many things: universalizable 21st century skills, educating American youth to be less parochial, enabling immigrants and refugees to live between and beyond nation-states, preparing the future multinational corporate elite. All pose questions about goals, assumptions, and just what education can effectively do. This CMEI Dialogue brought different experiences and perspectives to these questions.
Panelist Bios:
Vidur Chopra is a doctoral candidate and Early Career Scholar at HGSE. He focuses on adolescent and youth civic agency in the developing world and particularly in post-conflict countries with large youth bulges. He is interested in the role of formal and non-formal educational opportunities in young people's imaginings of their roles in rebuilding conflict-torn societies and the potential and promise education holds for peace building.
Connie Chung is a Lecturer on Education, and Associate Director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative, HGSE. Her field of research is in education for the 21st century, civic education and global citizenship education, including building the capacity of organizations and people to work collaboratively toward providing a powerful, relevant, rigorous, and meaningful education for all children that not only supports their individual growth but also the development of their communities.
Sarah Dryden-Peterson is an Associate Professor of Education at HGSE. Her work focuses on the connections between education and community development. She examines issues such as the role of social institutions in immigrant/refugee integration, the connections between education and family livelihoods, and transnational institution-building.
Fernando Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education at HGSE. He focuses his research and teaching on innovative global education policies and programs that help students develop competencies necessary for civic participation and work in the twenty first century. He works also in the area of global citizenship education and in how to align education policies with the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Helen Haste (moderator) is Visiting Professor of Education and CMEI Co-Convener.
Related Content:
- Global Education Innovation Initiative
- Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century (Harvard University Press)
- Empowering Global Citizens: A World Course (CreateSpace)
