Cultural Citizenship and Cosmopolitan Practice: Global Youth Communicate Online

Autor/inn/en	Hull, Glynda A.; Stornaiuolo, Amy; Sahni, Urvashi
Titel	Cultural Citizenship and Cosmopolitan Practice: Global Youth Communicate Online
Quelle	In: English Education, 42 (2010) 2, S.331-367 (37 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-8204
Schlagwörter	Global Education; Citizenship; Anthropology; Foreign Countries; Social Networks; Youth; Interaction; Females; Program Effectiveness; Case Studies; English Instruction; Teaching Methods; India; South Africa; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Globales Lernen; Staatsbürgerschaft; Anthropologie; Ausland; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Interaktion; Weibliches Geschlecht; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Indien; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik; USA
Abstract	Calls now abound in a range of literatures--philosophy, education, sociology, anthropology, media studies--to reimagine citizenship and identity in ways befitting a global age. A concept predominant in many such calls is the ancient idea of "cosmopolitanism." Refashioned now to serve as a compass in a world that is at once radically interconnected and increasingly divided, a cosmopolitan point of view remains resiliently hopeful, asserting that people can both uphold local commitments and take into consideration larger arenas of concern. This article animates theorizing about cultural citizenship, identity formation, and communication with an examination of what might be considered sites for cosmopolitan practice--an online international social network and offline local programs designed to engage youth in representing themselves and interacting with the representations of others. Specifically, we report our initial research with a group of teenage girls in India, tracing their participation online and offline and their cosmopolitan imaginings of self and other. We hope that this work with young people worlds away geographically, culturally, and ideologically will speak to English educators in the United States who feel likewise compelled to support their students in developing twenty-first-century literacies--both the technological competencies and the values, knowledge, and dispositions--needed to participate confidently and critically as citizens of local and global worlds. (Contains 7 figures and 12 notes.) (As Provided).
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