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Veranstaltungsname	Präsenz-Seminar: V1127 Global Englishes, Global Citizenship Education & Teaching International English; genaue Modulbezeichnungen - s. Kommentar
Veranstaltungsnummer	V1127
Semester	Ws 2025/26
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden	10
Heimat-Einrichtung	Englisch
Veranstaltungstyp	Präsenz-Seminar in der Kategorie Veranstaltung
Nächster Termin	Mittwoch, 10.12.2025 12:00 - 13:30, Ort: (3.311)
Art/Form	Präsenz-Seminar

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(3.311): Mittwoch: 12:00 - 13:30, wöchentlich (13x)
(BLB, Erbprinzenstraße 15, main building): Mittwoch: 12:00 - 13:30, wöchentlich (1x)
(PH Sporthalle, Moltkestraße 10): Freitag, 07.11.2025 19:00 - 21:30

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If the prominent teaching goal in the 21st century is educating children for Global Citizenship while working towards (some of) the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the responsibility for the advancement of global language education, social justice, and equity lies in the hands of pre-service teachers and their educators. The seminar addresses this responsibility.

One of the effects of globalisation and digitalisation has been a rapid increase of opportunities, problems, miscommunication and disinformation, i.e. challenges and affordances, also for the teaching profession. This is one of the reasons why the demand for English language teachers rose dramatically worldwide over the last 35 years. Internationalisation led to increased teacher and student mobility, and then to research into teaching English internationally and interculturally: whose and which "Englishes" are taught where, how, by whom, and on which political and economic terms? (T)EFL, ELF, EIL, or GELT? Reversely, German classrooms are now solidly multicultural and demand heightened teacher skills and creative decolonial teaching approaches.

Global mobility is also an integral part of English teacher education at the PH Karlsruhe, internationalisation one of the university's key goals. In view of the cultural and linguistic diversity in both German classrooms and the schools of our partner countries, and in view of the expanding internationalisation of education, education systems, and the teaching profession, the need to support pre-service teachers in becoming "globally competent" is one of the most pressing tasks that educators formulate today. Towards decolonising global citizenship and competence, the first step would be to recognise one's own positionality and limitations, and then to unlearn, preparing to be open and flexible, even comfortable with discomfort. The second step is to collect ideas for practicing non-binary GELT, and the third to decolonise one's mind, one's language and one's teaching, long-term.

Working with international partners facilitates this process, which is why international students are particularly welcome in this seminar! Your contributions to this class, e.g. in a contribution about the teaching of English in your country, are vital for opening up global perspectives.

The first half of the seminar introduces the key topics "Global Englishes", "Global Citizenship Education" and "Teaching the Sustainable Development Goals", and a guest speaker is invited for a workshop on "Power Imbalances".

In the second half of term, students develop a growing awareness of neo-colonial assumptions and the Euro-Anglo-centric episteme (system of knowing/understanding in binaries) governing current - now challenged - views on "teaching English". Deconstructing those will trigger "unlearning" and "delinking" (step 1; V. Andreotti) and "engaging decolonial options" (step 2; W.T. Mignolo).

In this part, topics such as "Stereotypes, prejudices, xenophobia", "Universal Values vs. Moral Relativism", "Postmethod Pedagogy", "Critical Language Awareness", "Peace Education", or "Decolonise Your Mind" help to develop this process in detail, with classroom application tasks and constant interaction between participants. Session are prepared by student expert groups in two consultations with the course instructor and then led together; literature and StudIP/Courseware scaffolding is provided for each session.

Research & co-creating knowledge:
Course participants may get involved in research (academic papers, Bachelor theses), which may be published on the project blog (https://www.thelaosexperience.com/full-texts/). For an ERP, participants are invited to author contributions to the series "Language Education and Global Citizenship" (https://www.thelaosexperience.com/?s=Language+Education+and+Global+Citizenship) or "Decolonise Your Mind" (https://www.thelaosexperience.com/?s=Decolonise+your+mind). The blog features 404 articles (1,1 million visitors, 4,9 million views) to date.

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