Improving Emirati students’ social responsibility competence through global citizenship education

IF 1.4 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Shytance T. Wren
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Purpose The purpose of this study is twofold: to determine if implementing a global citizenship education curriculum can aid the development of Emirati students’ social responsibility competence and to experiment with different instructional strategies that aim to yield improvement in the social responsibility of students. Design/methodology/approach The intervention research study used a mixed-methods quasi-experimental approach to examine Emirati students’ social responsibility gains and overall perceptions of a global citizenship education curriculum. Conceptual frameworks for instructional design of service-learning were used as theoretical underpinnings. The data were collected from student reflections, field notes, questionnaires and interviews. Findings Both the quantitative and qualitative data indicated that the global citizenship curriculum advanced students' understanding of social responsibility and civic concepts, specifically civic awareness, social justice and diversity. Research limitations/implications For future studies, researchers are encouraged to expand the current study's five-week timeframe by exploring the implications of a global citizenship education curriculum over a full term or even a whole academic year. Practical implications The results of the present study indicate that educators should experiment with curriculum redesign to further facilitate the development of social responsibility in undergraduate students. The results also suggest that educators incorporate specific instructional strategies such as integrated reflections and intergroup dialogue on social issues. Originality/value Social responsibility and global citizenship education have broadly been based on Western paradigms. Few studies have explored the impact of global citizenship education on the development of students' social responsibility in the Gulf region. This study fills the gap in knowledge by lending evidence of the role of global citizenship education in undergraduate university programs in the Gulf.
通过全球公民教育提高阿联酋学生的社会责任能力
本研究的目的有两个:确定实施全球公民教育课程是否有助于阿联酋学生社会责任能力的发展,并尝试不同的教学策略,旨在提高学生的社会责任。设计/方法/方法干预研究使用混合方法准实验方法来检查阿联酋学生的社会责任收益和对全球公民教育课程的总体看法。服务学习教学设计的概念框架作为理论基础。数据收集自学生反思、实地笔记、问卷调查和访谈。结果:定量和定性数据均表明,全球公民课程提高了学生对社会责任和公民概念的理解,特别是公民意识、社会正义和多样性。研究局限/启示对于未来的研究,研究人员被鼓励扩展当前研究的五周时间框架,探索全球公民教育课程在整个学期甚至整个学年的影响。实践启示本研究结果提示教育工作者应尝试重新设计课程,以进一步促进大学生社会责任的发展。结果还表明,教育工作者应结合具体的教学策略,如对社会问题的综合反思和群体间对话。社会责任和全球公民教育在很大程度上是基于西方范式的。很少有研究探讨全球公民教育对海湾地区学生社会责任发展的影响。本研究通过提供证据证明全球公民教育在海湾地区本科大学课程中的作用,填补了知识上的空白。
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