IN THIS CHAPTER, we will pose
exercises to inspire and stretch
your imagination to find new ways
of thinking about yourself and
your teacher role as you consider:
• Your motivation for fostering
and modeling global
citizenship
• What global citizenship means
to you
• How your identities and
experiences affect your work
as a teacher
• How your identities and
experiences affect your ideas
about global citizenship
• How you choose to draw
boundaries between your
personal and professional
selves
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Van Note Chism, N. (1997-1998). Developing a philosophy of teaching statement. Toward the best in the academy: Essays on teaching
excellence, 9(3).
Your motivation for fostering and modeling global citizenship through your teaching: Remember that you
may have both intrinsic motivation, derived from your own values and beliefs, and extrinsic motivation,
spurred by factors outside of yourself, such as encouragement (or pressure) from students or your
dean.
Identify the multiple intrinsic and extrinsic motives at play
in this example:
I
was
in
the
room
where
people
were
brainstorming
about
developing
a
global
citizenship course for students to get academic
credit for their YouLead international summer
placement. I've been doing so-called international
work for 15 years or more, and I've been worried
sometimes about the idea of sending UBC
students to the ‘third world’ to 'find themselves.'
So when I knew there was interest in designing a
course, I got really enthusiastic and jumped in and
said "I'll do it!"
My personal reason for volunteering like that: I was
worried about what the course would be like. It's
not that I don't trust my colleagues. And I'm not
saying that all the students approach their
international experience as if they're going to do
‘missionary work’ and be ‘better people’ for it. But
I know that even if students have really good
intentions, getting ready to do international
fieldwork requires a lot of preparation. The
YouLead staff prepare them around things like
culture shock and homesickness. But I want them
to develop a set of critical skills for understanding
North-South relations, so they could understand
why Westerners might not be welcome everywhere,
and that development by outsiders may not always
be a good thing. It's always the problem: you want
them to be critical, but if you're too critical they're
going to be so demoralized that they'll say "What's
the point of going?"
It's different than other teaching I've done; the
class dynamics are going to be more important in
this course than most other courses. The challenge
of finding the balance between something that is
critical but isn't too critical — I still do international
work, so I obviously think the whole thing has
value. So, the challenge is how to inspire students,
but not send them off with a 'do-good' mentality.
I'm looking forward to teaching this course. I'm
getting towards the end of my career; it's
experiential learning for me, if you want to know
the truth! But the instructor has to be someone
who has done a lot of international work, it has to
be somebody who really believes in the value of
that. That was part of my motivation for doing it,
and I also wanted to make sure the course had a
strong feminist, anti-racist approach. I think
teaching something like 'citizenship,' if you'd asked
me a year ago I wouldn't have been interested. I'd
have said, "Oh, give me a break!" I think there are
good skills to teach students: going beyond what's
self-evident, being critical, being self-reflexive. If
you can teach students those skills, they'll come
out of university a better person.
-Dawn Currie,
Professor, Sociology
Road to Global Citizenship: An Educator’s Toolbook
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