Education for Global Change
Explores how people conceptualize and utilize education to create change, examining diverse educational approaches and disciplinary perspectives on global transformation.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.60 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=21 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Examine the diverse ways that people have conceptualized change and the educational mechanisms that drive it across disciplines, research methodologies, and epistemologies.
Analyze how theories of change conceptualize human growth and development, national and international development, and global sustainability; and integrate new information about international development, education, and their own positionality into their existing frame of knowledge.
Describe and analyze how different theories of change could be applied to key international development problems that require global educational solutions (e.g., HIV/AIDS and climate change); produce a final project that proposes a new international development education project to at least one group of stakeholders in international development arenas.
Determine for themselves what theories of change most appeal to them and why; recognize the voice, resource, and power dynamics in each change approach; and decide how they might move their understanding of a theory of change into practicable action, in part through reflection on their sources, and in part through reflection on their own positionality.
Synthesize and analyze information arising from multiple disciplinary, methodological, and epistemological literatures on theories of change, and situate international development education within these traditions.
Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenges of international development paradigms, and the sustainability challenges posed by current international development efforts.
Analyze the causes of and solutions for the sustainability challenges of international development and international education.
Describe the social, economic, political, and environmental dimensions of international development education efforts and identify potential trade-offs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course.
Source: UW Guide
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.60 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=21 letter grades).
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Topics
- Conceptualization of change, its goals, and mechanisms for producing change globally.
- Diverse educational approaches including formal, informal, non-formal, and traditional models.
- Disciplinary approaches (education, public health, public policy) and change models (behavior change, social marketing, social movements, chaos theory, liberation theory).
Skills
- Examining and analyzing diverse conceptualizations of change, educational mechanisms, and theories of change across disciplines and methodologies.
- Applying theories of change to international development problems and producing a final project proposal for stakeholders.
- Synthesizing and analyzing information from multiple disciplinary, methodological, and epistemological literatures.
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