23.1251, Confs: Applied Linguistics/UK

Mon Mar 12 22:55:42 UTC 2012

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Subject: 23.1251, Confs: Applied Linguistics/UK

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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:54:45
From: Filippo Nereo [Filippo.Nereo at heacademy.ac.uk]
Subject: Teaching, Learning and Living the Graduate Attribute of Global Citizenship within and beyond Disciplinary Boundaries

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Teaching, Learning and Living the Graduate Attribute of Global Citizenship within and beyond Disciplinary Boundaries 

Date: 18-May-2012 - 18-May-2012 
Location: Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom 
Contact: Juliet Henderson 
Contact Email: jhenderson at brookes.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2012/seminars/disciplines/DW133 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

This seminar, funded by the UK Higher Education Academy as part of 
its workshop and seminar series, has three main goals. First, it seeks 
to offer practical interpretations of the graduate attribute of global 
citizenship in individual teaching practices. Secondly, it aims to 
challenge assumptions that the language of global citizenship 
attributes is empty rhetoric. Thirdly, it critically explores how links 
between theory and pedagogy can enhance the student learning 
experience.

Graduate Attributes are now a key driver of teaching and learning 
practices in UK Higher Education (ESECT 2004). These refer to skills, 
knowledge and abilities of graduates, which go beyond disciplinary 
content knowledge or technical expertise, and are intended to prepare 
students to be active agents of social good both in the workplace and 
the community. Amongst the various descriptors of such attributes is 
that of 'global citizenship'. This identity marker reflects a 
contemporary, international way of thinking in today's local academic 
communities and globalising world. At Oxford Brookes University, the 
graduate attribute of 'global citizenship' is defined in the Strategy for 
Enhancing the Student Experience 2010-2015 as: Knowledge and 
skills, showing cross-cultural awareness, and valuing human diversity. 
The ability to work effectively, and responsibly, in a global context. 
Translating such new types of knowledge into teaching materials and 
activities raises challenges for colleagues across the subject 
disciplines. 

>From an institutional perspective, global citizenship is often a central 
thread of university internationalisation strategies which aim to 
advance existing practices in relation to the quality of the learning 
experience for international and home students. More specifically, in 
the human and social sciences, global citizenship is being constructed 
in various disciplines in both different and overlapping ways. Drawing 
on research (e.g. Block 2011) and evaluation studies this seminar 
critically considers how academics in the disciplines of English and 
Applied Linguistics are articulating global citizenship in their own 
voice, and in ways that make the student learning experience 
transformative. 

9.30-10.00 
Registration and Coffee

10.00-10.15 
Welcome and outline of seminar

10.15-10.45 
Key paper 1: Theory and practice + responses

10.45-11.15 
Key paper 2: Practice based research + responses 

11.15-11.30 
Coffee

11.30-12.00 
Key paper 3: Practice based research + responses

12.00-12.30 
Chair led discussion - review of the morning and future directions

12.30-1.30 
Lunch (poster presentation of Undergraduate global citizenship 
research)

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