Readjusting: Understanding Global Citizenship

Global Ambassadors Program (GAP) Office of Education Abroad and International Programs

Created by Chris Royer, Graduate Assistant

Icebreaker
Where did you study abroad? What did you learn about yourself? Tell us about your most difficult/ frustrating cultural adaption.

Notecard Activity
Describe your most memorable experience abroad.

What does it mean to be a global citizen?

Who owns a culture?

Cultural appreciation or cultural appropriation? Tokenism Where is the line between cultural appreciation and disrespect? Who owns the right to cultural artifacts, objects, and traditions?

Who owns a culture?

Questions of power and privilege

How is this connected to issues of global citizenship?

Does this change anything?

Personal Assessment

Understanding Global Citizenship

Culture is the most difficult thing to change about a society.

Culture: its not good or bad, just different.

Bringing it back: global citizenship

Positive and negative expressions of global citizenship

What is GAP?

Framework of global citizenship Social responsibility, global competence, and global civic engagement Positive and negative expressions of global citizenship

What is GAP?

Readjusting: Understanding Global Citizenship Intercultural Sensitivity through Ethnorelative Communication Cultural Contrasts Global Career Skills Intercultural Communication at Home: New Values on your Moral Compass Practicum

Civic Engagement: Practicum

What is your role as a global ambassador? Practicum components:

Synthesize your study abroad experience Represent the Education Abroad office Give a cultural presentation for a campus or community group. Must include critical analysis and application component.

Practicum proposals due the week of 3 March.

Coming soon

Intercultural Sensitivity through Ethnorelative Communication (Wednesday, 19 February from 3.30 pm 5.00 pm OR Thursday, 20 February from 4.00 pm 5.30 pm). Think about your practicum and come with some raw ideas (what to do, who to contact, where to go). Well talk about this more next week.