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"Are Only Some Of Us Global Citizens?" (Nigel Dower, 2008, p. 44 in Abdi, A. A., & Shultz, L. (2008). Educating for Human Rights and Global Citizenship, New York: State University of New York Press.
Noel Gough
The phrase appropriated to global environmental education, Think Globally, Act Locally (Gough, 2003), has resurfaced to capture the epitome of global citizenship and active responsibility. However, the conceptualization of what it means to Think Globally, Gough (2003) would argue, is an abstract concept which has been “largely unexamined and undertheorized” (p. 54). With specific reference to Wagner (1993) and the globalizing of environmental education, Gough (2003) presents an interesting account of how blind spots (lack of acknowledgement or awareness) and blank spots (what we question but do not adequately address) persist within global discourse, whereby Thinking Globally cannot be reduced to elusive and overly simplistic representations of knowledge. As Gough (2002) questions, "in practical and performative terms, what do environmental educators mean when they say they are ‘thinking globally’ and, perhaps more importantly, what should they mean" (p. 1217)?
Links to Relevant Websites
Canadian Feed the Children http://www.canadianfeedthechildren.ca/
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) – Global Classroom Initiative http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/gci
CHF (Formerly Canadian Hunger Foundation) – Ottawa http://www.chf-partners.ca/index.shtml
Facing History and Ourselves http://www.facinghistory.org/
One Million Acts of Green http://green.cbc.ca/
OXFAM – Canada or International http://www.oxfam.ca/ & http://www.oxfam.org/
TakingITGlobal http://www.tigweb.org/
UNICEF - Canada http://www.unicef.ca/portal/SmartDefault.aspx?at=1420
University of Ottawa – Developing a Global Perspective for Educators http://www.developingaglobalperspective.ca/
War Child Canada http://www.warchild.ca/ www.getloud.ca
Wellesley Centers for Women - National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity & Diversity) http://www.wcwonline.org/seed
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) – Global Classroom Initiative http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/gci
CHF (Formerly Canadian Hunger Foundation) – Ottawa http://www.chf-partners.ca/index.shtml
Facing History and Ourselves http://www.facinghistory.org/
One Million Acts of Green http://green.cbc.ca/
OXFAM – Canada or International http://www.oxfam.ca/ & http://www.oxfam.org/
TakingITGlobal http://www.tigweb.org/
UNICEF - Canada http://www.unicef.ca/portal/SmartDefault.aspx?at=1420
University of Ottawa – Developing a Global Perspective for Educators http://www.developingaglobalperspective.ca/
War Child Canada http://www.warchild.ca/ www.getloud.ca
Wellesley Centers for Women - National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity & Diversity) http://www.wcwonline.org/seed
What are your thoughts on Global warming?
"UNLESS someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It's not." - The Lorax -
Quote from Dr. Suess
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It's not." - The Lorax -
Quote from Dr. Suess
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ReplyDeleteI felt that several arguments made by McIntosh were inappropriate. Most of these comments deal with generalizations about genders, although I believe that she made several similar contentions about Americans. Indeed, after she had enumerated a list of qualities characterizing her ideal of a global citizen, she argued that women were endowed with those qualities. She also added to this that this endowment must be biologically based. Later on, she affirmed that women make and mend the fabric of society. In her last section, she also advanced that wars are conceived and led by men. I consider that sexism predicates each of these statements. As suggested above, these affirmations stem from generalization about genders. Here, I employ the concept generalization as the process of establishing a rule about something based solely on a certain number of examples. In McIntosh’s case, I uphold that she constructed these foregoing arguments about every member of each of the two genders in function of the characteristics possessed by only a certain number of individuals. I believe that a great deal of women have the abilities pertaining to McIntosh’s definition of a global citizen. I reckon that it is also the case for men. However, not all men and women possess these qualities at the time being. I propound that there is only one generalization for each gender that does not misrepresent reality: women are born with a female anatomy, whereas men are born with a male anatomy. Hence, McIntosh argumentations has disappointed me on certain points, even more since I agree with Noddings’ claim that global education should start with peace and peace education. I hope that I have misread or misinterpreted the aforementioned statements of McIntosh because I have founded them insulting. Is this the case?
ReplyDeleteA racialized white and genderized male