Rita Divéki

Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom


The Background

In today’s world, young people have to face unprecedented challenges: In the last few decades, the pace of life has accelerated dramatically, the speed of technological advancement has increased, and our world is more globalized than ever before. Although these changes may be interpreted as progress, our world is also full of inequalities, injustice, political polarization, racial and religious tensions even in developed democracies, and it is getting more complicated than ever to interpret what is going on around us in the world (UNESCO, 2014). The COVID-19 pandemic has made it abundantly clear that our world has never been more interconnected, and immediate collective action would be needed to tackle these global challenges and move forward together (World Economic Forum, 2021). All these recent trends have serious repercussions on education, as there is a need to educate a new generation of students who will be able to meet the challenges of an ever-progressing world and who will be prepared for a competitive and unpredictable job market (OECD, 2020; UNESCO, 2014). Educational policymakers around the world have realised the urgency to implement changes and have started to adopt the Global Citizenship Education (GCED) framework (UNESCO, 2015), which was developed to help students become global citizens, who will be able to face the above-mentioned challenges.

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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