Global Citizensglobal citizens, sustainability and health

education

global citizens for health

•Aim

•to discuss the concept

•to discuss curriculum

•to discuss plans for the future

•global, social, environmental determinants

•sustainability-climate change-health triad

•policy drivers and global issues - climate change.

•global citizenship as part response.

•current UK context for HEIs:

•reduction in funding

• “My country is the world, all mankind are my brethren, to do good is my religion”.

Thomas Paine (1727-1809)

•the idea of citizenship applied globally

•rights and responsibilities

•ethical endeavour

•activism

•Global reformers

•People of transnational affairs (business elite)

•Managers of environmental and economic order

•Regional Political Consciousness

•Trans-national activists

Falk’s 5 categories of global citizen (1994)

•ethical imperative and an action imperative

•but whose ethics and whose action?

•conservative or radical?

•health care workers’ ethics and their philosophies for care.

•raising awareness

•biomedicalism and individualism, training

•social determinants and public health

•sustainability-climate change-health

•ESD and global citizenship share concepts. (e.g. ESDGC in Wales)

Health Education

•ESD and Global Citizenship share concepts. (e.g. ESDGC in Wales)

•ESD principles - Shelby’s 10 propositions

•Sustainable Well Being - 8 principles

•Apply these to curriculum development and the student experience

• The challenges facing humanity in the 21st century require a radical rethink of ‘business as usual’. Education is important, but is not the only game in town. There are other agencies and ideologies shaping the future. However, education is the HEI’s sphere of immediate influence and although it may be morally questionable to ask the next generation to clear up after our own mess, we may have little choice.

• The principles for educational programmes may need to mediated through some notion of global citizenship that has to have a moral and political dimension if we are to move civilisation towards moral, economic and environmental sustainability.

The future?•discuss whether the concept

applies in various academic disciplines

•identify how these ideas may affect the student experience and curriculum

•graduates in 5 years time.....what will they be like?