Rita Divéki

Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom


2.2.4.4 Good Practices: Developing Students’ Global Competence through Experiential Learning Activities

In her article, Human rights education: education of the heart, Vlachopoulou (2020) recounts several ways she involved her 5-6th graders in service-learning activities in Greece. During the refugee crisis, she participated in a Teachers4Europe programme with her students entitled Human Rights-Refugee Rights-Solidarity. During the project, the children learnt through playing, dealt with videos on human rights, and created digital posters. They also played an online game developed by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in which they had to put themselves into the shoes of a refugee and accompany him on his route from his home country to the asylum. To synthesise and put into practice what they learnt, they were asked to create a Padlet with advice to European countries regarding the refugee crisis. In another project on rights in the online sphere and hate speech, the students watched videos about human rights online, did activities about them (from the book Bookmarks published by the Council of Europe, 2020) and created posters about internet safety and online hate speech. To link the classroom to the real world and show the usefulness of what they do in class, Vlachopoulou (2020) displayed the students’ work in an end-of-school event that was open to the community, so the students could use what they learnt in class to inform citizens about the topic they had been working on. The students were visibly engaged in these projects and learnt a lot about global issues.

Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom

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Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2024

ISBN: 978 963 664 013 2

In today’s world, there are increasing demands for education systems for empowering students to become active and responsible global citizens who are prepared to address the challenges of the 21st century and who are equipped with global competence. This book examines global competence development (GCD) in English language teaching in Hungary from the perspective of university English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher trainers and secondary school EFL teachers. Based on the findings, it details the characteristics of globally competent teachers, offers a wide array of activities that can be used for nurturing global citizens, and outlines recommendations for the successful implementation of GCD in both secondary and tertiary education.

Hivatkozás: https://mersz.hu/diveki-developing-global-competence-in-the-hungarian-efl-classroom//

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