GEC 13- THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

Learning Activity Sheet

CLASSES: BSSW 1A → 5:30-7:00 (W/F)

BSSW 1B → 5:30-7:00 (Th/F)
BSEd 1 → 7:30-10:30 (Saturday)
BSEd 2 → 9:00-12:00 (Saturday)

LESSON:

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
At the end of this lesson, the student must be able to:
1. Articulate a personal definition of global citizenship.
2. Appreciate the ethical obligations of global citizenship.

VOCABULARY:
1. GLOBAL – pertaining to the whole world; worldwide; universal: the dream of
global peace.
2. CITIZEN – a legally recognized subject or national of a state or commonwealth,
either native or naturalized
3. CITIZENSHIP – is a relationship between an individual and a state to which the
individual owes allegiance and in turn is entitled to its protection.
4. INTERDEPENDENCE – the state of being dependent upon one another : mutual
dependence interdependence of the two nations' economies
5. HUMANISTS – stand for the building of a more humane, just, compassionate,
and democratic society using a pragmatic ethics based on human reason,
experience, and reliable knowledge-an ethics that judges the consequences of
human actions by the well-being of all life on Earth.
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PRETEST:
A. DIRECTIONS: Write down words and phrases that come to your mind when you
hear the word Global Citizen.

B. DIRECTIONS: Get out your list of 5 possible candidates who have dramatically
affected the world in a POSITIVE way.

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LEARNING ACTIVITIES:
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

➔ Global citizenship is the idea that one's identity transcends geography or political
borders, and that responsibilities or rights are derived from membership in a
broader class: "humanity"
➔ Person who places their identity with a “global community” above their identity
as a citizen of a particular nation or place
➔ Membership in a political community / legal member of a sovereign state.
➔ Greek ideas: equality under the law, civic participation in government, power
restrictions (Hosking, G., 2005)
➔ To be truly human, one had to be an active citizen (Aristotle)
➔ Rights & duties: political participation, right to vote, right to receive protection
(Leary, V., 2000)
➔ Classical/ civic humanist conception: citizenship as an active process, not a
passive state (Beiner, R., ed., 1995)
➔ Is a way of living that recognizes our world is an increasingly complex web of
connections and interdependencies. One in which our choices and actions may
have repercussions for people and communities locally, nationally or
internationally.

A GLOBAL CITIZEN ….
• Is aware of the wider world
• Has a sense of their role as a world citizen
• Respect values diversity and cultural differences
• Wants to tackle social injustice
• Lives and promotes a sustainable way of life
• Takes action to make the world more equal and peaceful
• Is someone who identifies with being part of an emerging world community and
whose actions contribute to building this community’s values and
practices”(Ronald C. Israel)
• Understand nature of globalization
• Appreciate diversity of humanity
• Recognize critical global challenges
• Collaborate with different sets of stakeholders
• Has an understanding of how the world works economically, politically, socially,
culturally, technologically and environmentally
• Is outraged by social injustice
• Participates in and contributes to the community
• Is willing to make the world a more sustainable place
• Takes responsibility for their actions
• A person who does good deeds
• Someone involved in politics
• A member of community who has rights and responsibilities
• An adult

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 ➔ A COMMUNITY is a group of people who share an environment. Everyday you are
part of several different layers of community. That means you have many different
levels of citizenship

➔ CITIZENSHIP CIRCLES: City, State, Nation, World

➢ CITY – you are a citizen of the city in which you live
➢ STATE – paying taxes is one of the biggest responsibilities you’ll find in a
provincial constitution
➢ NATION – the constitution does not have a list of responsibilities, but the
powers it gives to the federal government suggest some
➢ WORLD -

“What kind of society do we want?” …

If human beings hope to maintain and develop a particular type of society, they must
develop and maintain the particular type of education system conducive to it.

Why Global Citizenship?

- The world we live in is unfair, unequal and global citizenship promotes the
challenging and changing of this.
- We live in a diverse society and Global Citizenship gives people the tools to counter
ignorance and intolerance within it.
- We live in an interdependent world and Global Citizenship encourages us to
recognize our responsibilities towards each other.
- We live in a rapidly changing world and Global Citizenship is about flexibility and
adaptability as well as about a positive image of the future.
- Acknowledges that we have power as individuals each of us can change things
and each of us has choices about how we behave.

COMMON CHARACTERISTICS:
➢ Recognizing complexity and interdependency
➢ Global dimension – developing global identity
➢ Community building – one humankind
➢ Contributing to building community’s values and practices
➢ Building governance structures
➢ Building sustainable values-based world community

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VALUES & RESPONSIBILITY OF A GLOBAL COMMUNITY
OF PEOPLE SHARING THE SAME GLOBAL IDENTITY
• human rights,
• environmental protection,
• religious pluralism,
• gender equity,
• sustainable worldwide economic growth,
• poverty alleviation,
• prevention of conflicts between countries and people,
• elimination of weapons of mass destruction,
• humanitarian assistance,
• preservation of cultural diversity

TASK 1:
DIRECTIONS: Perform the task below.

TASK 2:
DIRECTIONS: What would you like to change? Justify your answer.

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POST TEST: TRUE or FALSE
DIRECTIONS: Read the sentence carefully then write T if the sentence is True and F if it
is False.

__________1. Global citizenship is a way to understand the world and to connect, relate
and share with other cultures and peoples.
__________2. Global citizens are needed in light of contemporary challenges.
__________3. Global citizenship education is always adapted to local contexts.
__________4. To be truly human, one had to be an active citizen.
__________5. Global citizenship is only available to people who speak another language.

ASSIGNMENT:

1. What are the PRO’s and CONs of Global Citizenship and the impact on yourself
and others?
2. Find as many photos of global citizens and different cultures as you can and
make a collage.
3. Watch the news on tv: are there any conflicts in the world? Where and between
whom?
4. What would there be in the world that there is not now? Write or draw your ideas
on posters or maps.

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