Rethinking global education approaches and practices: A critical review of curriculum in action at secondary and higher secondary schools in Pakistan
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Sharar, TajuddinEditorial
Universidad de Granada
Materia
Global education Global perspective West-centrism Global issues Post-colonial theory Pedagogy
Fecha
2021Referencia bibliográfica
Tajuddin Sharar (2021). Rethinking global education approaches and practices: A critical review of curriculum in action at secondary and higher secondary schools in Pakistan. Journal for Educators, Teachers and Trainers, Vol. 12(4). 101 – 111. [DOI: 10.47750/jett.2021.12.04.015]
Resumen
The traditional nation-specific approaches of education are being criticized for developing ethnocentric worldviews among students. In this context, there is a call for global education model as an
alternative to the traditional nation-specific model of education for developing students’ worldmindedness. However, global education model is also criticized to be uncritical to issues of
globalisation. This paper aims at critically exploring curriculum practices of global education in
Pakistani schools. In this study, qualitative case study design was employed and 18 secondary and
higher secondary school teachers were selected as participants employing purposive sampling
techniques. The data was collected through document analysis, interviews and teachers’ classroom
observations. The data were analyzed using qualitative data analysis method. The findings and
results revealed that subject matter knowledge and pedagogies do not consider issues from multiple
perspectives, attach less emphasis on knowledge of alternative choices and perspectives. The findings
also revealed that subject matter knowledge and pedagogies reproduce colonial cultural knowledge,
ignore economic dependencies and multiple forms of human rights violations in international human
rights discourses. This study also proposes postcolonial theoretical framework for global education to
make curriculum practices of global education more global-centric.