Associate Professor of Education
Faculty of Global Studies
Waseda Global Citizen Project
The Waseda Global Citizen Project was established to allow Waseda University students a forum to express their voice about The University's mission statement claim that it is developing "global citizens". This is a video-based project intended to raise awareness about the importance, possibilities and pitfalls of this educational endeavor.
The authors:
All videos featured in this project are designed and created by Waseda University students themselves.
The task:
Design and describe a convincing argument for some feasible action(s) that in your opinion would help raise Waseda University's success at achieving their aim of developing "global citizens" through their educational environment
Submission guidelines:
All videos should...
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be under approximately 10 minutes in length
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indicate the importance and complexity of promoting global citizenship education at Waseda University
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identify what you believe to be an ideal global citizenship education and point out some of the problems/deficiences with the way(s) that global citizenship is currently being conceptualized and practiced at Waseda University
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explain in detail some hypothetical (but feasible) action(s) that can be taken at the university to overcome these problems/deficiencies so it can raise its success at developing global citizens in accordance with the ideals you identified in the video