Migration, Intercultural Education and Global Education
Over the past fifty years, while international migrations have contributed to the development of intercultural education, selfishness, nationalism and racism are on the rise all over the world. Today, the Covid-19 health emergency shows that closures are ineffective and unnecessary and that nobody can save themselves on their own. It is an emergency that seriously questions and challenges individuals, societies, states, the UN and international organizations and that shows that everyone needs everyone. Coronavirus is a challenge for all humanity and forces us to experience a new form of globalization whose pivot is not profit but solidarity among all at all levels. In other words, Covid-19 offers us the opportunity to review our way of being citizens of the world and, at the same time, it obliges us to strive to become one. This course therefore aims to deal with the issue of global citizenship education through the deconstruction of globalization, an ethical and political reading of the migratory phenomenon and a critique of intercultural education. It will also explore the themes, objectives and methodological approaches of global citizenship education. At the end of the course, the students will acquire the appropriate lexicon of the topics and will be more aware of their ethical and political responsibility towards the fate not only of their nations but of all humanity.