Transformative Cosmopolitan Education and Gandhi's Relevance Today

Autor/in	Lang-Wojtasik, Gregor
Titel	Transformative Cosmopolitan Education and Gandhi's Relevance Today
Quelle	In: International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 10 (2018) 1, S.72-89 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1756-526X
Schlagwörter	Transformative Learning; Foreign Countries; Global Education; Sustainability; Social Justice; Educational Change; Educational Principles; Educational Practices; European History; Literacy; Educational Philosophy; General Education; Global Approach; Western Civilization; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pädagogische Transformation; Ausland; Globales Lernen; Nachhaltigkeit; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Bildungsreform; Bildungsprinzip; Bildungspraxis; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Allgemein bildendes Schulwesen; Allgemeinbildung; Globales Denken; Indien
Abstract	The understanding of transformative education in this article is based on the principles and practice of global learning. Globalization is understood as a transformative process creating challenges for society, human beings and education. Global learning, framed within sustainability and justice, is understood as a way of handling the transformative challenges of a world society. It is embedded in processes of European history. In this way, it is possible to see global learning as world societal literacy that goes beyond reading and writing, and to understand it as another level of enlightenment. To do so, I refer to the social, philosophical and educational ideas of M. K. Gandhi, also known as Mahatma ('great soul') (1869-1948), which still create a basis for reform-oriented concepts of basic education, literacy and sociopolitical literacy in India today. These are historical concepts concerning transformation of the self and education as a means of handling transformative societies beyond an existing understanding of Western civilization in a systematic way. The concluding concept of transformative cosmopolitan education presents World Nai Talim as a basis for an enlightenment that is equally applicable to both the Global South and North. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01