GLOBAL EDUCATION ‒ FINNISH PERSPECTIVES

Hanasaari, 2 September 2008

Dr. Ritva-Sini Merilampi

The future does not happen ‒ we make it through our own

choices!

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Triangle thinking…

PRACTICE

THEORY

POLICY

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Civilisation/sivistys in Finnish

Nature• the unity of nature and culture

Technology• in terms of humanity

Economy• in a world of its own

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Multi-Cross-Inter-Poly-

Shared by allno one's responsibility

 Discipline structures

different paradigms Generalist versus Specialist Content and form

relationship

Potholes

Art:Science:Humour:

Art:Science:Humour:

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AAH!AHAA!HAHA!

AAH!AHAA!HAHA!

A.Koestler’Act of Creation’

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Global Education as a concept(among other things)

• individual global responsibility and communal global responsibility − the ethic of a world citizen

• critical and media-critical competences

• limited resources of the earth

• education for sustainable development as a component.

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The Finnish national aim ofdevelopment is (among other things)

• to integrate the global education perspective into major lines of education, research, cultural and social policy

 • to step up the practical realisation of global education

including teacher education • to support research and higher education in global

education

• to support civic organisations and other civil society actors in their work as providers of global education

• to strengthen partnership between the public administration, business, the media, civic organisations and other civil society actors.

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The World Citizen andthe Media Project

• to promote the pupil's growth into global responsibility by media education methods

I dont’t like school.It doesn’t agreewith my life style.

I dont’t like school.It doesn’t agreewith my life style.

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Media education

””We must learn to balance the We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our with the spiritual demands of our human nature.”human nature.”

John Naisbitt1982

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Critical thinking...

• a productive and positive activity

• emotive as well as rational

• from moral panic to creative thinking…

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From literacy to media literacy

Media literacy=

to read and write different media texts, whether

or any other combinations andnetworks of these

verbalverbal iconographiciconographicvisualvisual

oraloral

auditiveauditive

digitaldigital

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Media skills

1. the user's reflective approach to his/her own media environment

 2. an understanding of media expression

devices = skills in analysing media content

 3. an understanding of the process of

content production = the skill of doing

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Media "civilisation"

• media literacy highlights the social nature of reading and writing

• a basic human right in a digital world