ERIC Number: ED613898
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Nov-30
Pages: 10
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Developing Global Citizenship through Real-World Tasks -- A Virtual Exchange between North American University Students and Italian Upper-Secondary School Students
Research-publishing.net, Paper presented at the 2019 EVALUATE Conference (León, Spain, Sep 2019)
This paper concerns a virtual exchange project between the University of Virginia (UVa), United States, and an upper-secondary school in Pavia, Italy. Centred on the question of gender equality, the project has been designed to take place over three years (2018-2021) with a direct reference to Robert O'Dowd's transnational model of virtual exchange for global citizenship education, proposed in 2018. As an integrated part of the language learning curriculum, the project creates a virtual space which parallels the space-time of traditional class tuition, and which students can inhabit with a significant degree of autonomy. More specifically, this paper gives an account of how students, through real-world tasks, could develop global citizenship. [For the complete volume, see ED609298.]
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Exchange Programs, Program Descriptions, Secondary School Students, Sex Fairness, Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Personal Autonomy, Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, Italian, English (Second Language), Videoconferencing, Language Usage, Discussion, Student Attitudes
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Virginia; Italy
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