How many different countries are the objects in your direct surrounding from? Your T-shirt, your bike, your mobile? The orange juice you like most and the music you are listening to? If you start counting and naming the countries, you might be surprised. The development of a globalized world brought about a lot of movement in terms of goods. People are moving more – because of their needs, struggles, or for pleasure. Thus, even in everyday routines we are already embedded in a global context – we are global citizens. Objects, ideas, people from “beyond everyday,” from beyond our city, region or even state contribute and shape our daily lives and our opportunities. As global humans, we talk about global issues with our friends and families, and as facilitators, teachers and trainers to children, youth or adult learners. Hardly any of the issues we work on can be fully understood without addressing the global connections behind them.
Global Learning is concerned with the connections between regions, cultures, and people across geographic boundaries. In a globalized world and under the sign of developments that encompass the world, such as digitalisation, climate change or economic globalization, it is increasingly becoming a transversal topic. Global Citizenship Education aims to merge the approaches of Education for Democratic Citizenship/Human Rights Education with Global Learning.
