The department „Teaching English as a Foreign Language“ (TEFL) at the University of Munich organizes an int. conference from 25th-28th March with the topic „Educating the Global Citizen: International Perspectives on Foreign Language Teaching in the Digital Age“. Registration for the conference will open in December 2018.
In times of rapid and unprecedented global sociocultural change, urgent calls are being made for salient educational responses to current global and digital challenges. Such calls are being met in (re)formulations of global (citizenship) education, sustainability education, and service learning, which endeavor to promote a democratic and human rights culture in schools and the larger community.
Foreign language education is increasingly responding to these developments by updating and transforming FL pedagogies. In support of this nascent trajectory, this conference will engage with the epistemological and critical foundations of educating future global citizens across varied contexts. Accordingly, our aim is to explore citizenship and sustainability education from a wide range of perspectives, also interdisciplinary in scope, as regards developing theories, research and practice in FL education. We are additionally interested in how global education performs on a local level as well as in increasingly interconnected environments, and how digital settings, practices and methodologies are consequently implicated.
Contact E-Mail: gced2019@lmu.de
Venue address:
Hauptgebäude LMU
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
