Global Citizenship as Personal and Pedagogical Practice

5th International Conference in association with CAPRI, the
internationalisation stream of the Centre for Social and Educational
Research across the Life course (SERL)
Hosted by Centre for Curriculum Internationalisation (CCI)
Date: Friday 7 June and Saturday 8 June 2013.
Venue: Harcourt Hill Campus, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford.
Early bird rates apply until 3 May 2013, normal rates from 4 May 2013.
We see this conference as a shared adventure that will allow us all to
come out of it with something that matters. For this reason there are
deliberately few papers, all offering quite unconventional and
challenging perspectives on global citizenship and
internationalisation. The purpose of this is to provide intellectual
space to articulate participants’ voices – their perspectives, issues,
concerns and ideas – within the context of local institutions,
communities and wider social, economic and historical forces. A
distinctive feature of the conference is therefore collaborative
endeavour designed to capture the layers of contested meaning emerging
from creative and imaginative engagement with the discourses and key
messages articulated by individual contributors.
The papers offered all present different perspectives on discourses of
internationalisation and global citizenship. Common threads that are
developed include:
Questioning the meaning of the global in local contexts
Student engagement as critical to becoming citizens of the world
Tensions around space, place and identity
Writing as a performative dimension of global citizenship
Our critical reflection on the complexity of the process of new
knowledge production will allow us to listen closely to and
consolidate the diverse, situated perspectives of the conference
community. It will also enable us to foreground how we see power,
context, historical and structural forces playing out in our local
practices.

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