Global Citizenship Education as Sustainable Development (GCESD)

Maureen EllisLondon University

Institute of Educationt-ellis2@hotmail.com

Systemic CHAT

Engestrom’s Cultural Historic Activity Theory http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/activity/pages/chatanddwr/chat/

Moral

Socio-cultural

Political, Economic

Biological

Chemical

Physical

Critical Realist ontology as systemic stratification

Whose Truth / Knowledge?

Critical Realist ecology of epistemologies

Rec 1:Inter-disciplinary Critical Discourse Studies :

theory, analysis, applicationshould systemically address

political-economy & ethics in every discipline

(Discourse = language in action; integrity of thought, word, in-deed!)

Dialectical Critical Realism’s yin/yang turbulence and quiescence

R2:Emancipatory praxis must span fact/value; theory/practice; politics/ethics

R3: Long-term, stable, HEI / INGO collaborations.

Cultural politics

Subjects Individual Cultural Mediation

Collective

Deep frames Values and perceptions

Immediate Ethos and worldview

Surface frames Beliefs and intentions

Multi-modallymediated

Cosmology and ideology

Evidenced in / Accessed by

Language, modes, activity

Multi-media and the media

Dominant discourses:community products

R 4(W)holistic CHAT - neuro-,psycho-, cognitive linguistics

meta-real framing & footing (Goffman)

Metaphor ~ thought ~ language (Lakoff and Johnson)

engages passion, beliefs, en-theos-iastic experience

i. Transformative personal passion (Hegarty);ii. Professional response-able transaction (Giroux);iii. Reflexive positioning of collective Self (Harre).

R 5 Theorised multi-modal critique: Speech Act Performativity (Austin)

Hetroglossic CHAT: Multiple intelligences (Bakhtin) (Gardner)

Multi-modal, multi-media literacy (Kress) (Jewitt): material, sensorial, spatio-temporal, symbolic

Genre studies: form / function; what / why

Relevance: From texts to con-texts

Critical Semiotics: life-long, life-wide search for meaning

R 6 HEI assessment (school /community projects)

Academic accountability: speak truth to power

R7: Universe-cities: Transnational, multi-stakeholder research partnerships with dev countries

Transformational Global Citizenship Education as Sustainable Development (GCESD)

• Transformational Systemic Functional Linguistics (Halliday’s SFL)

enables

• R 8: Democratic cyber communities of praxis (COPx)