Developing Global Citizenship through Real-World Tasks -- A Virtual Exchange between North American University Students and Italian Upper-Secondary School Students

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Undergraduate Students; Exchange Programs; Program Descriptions; Secondary School Students; Sex Fairness; Global Approach; Citizenship Education; Personal Autonomy; Computer Mediated Communication; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Foreign Countries; Cultural Awareness; Intercultural Communication; Italian; English (Second Language); Videoconferencing; Language Usage; Discussion; Student Attitudes

Virginia; Italy

This paper concerns a virtual exchange project between the University of Virginia (UVa), United States, and an upper-secondary school in Pavia, Italy. Centred on the question of gender equality, the project has been designed to take place over three years (2018-2021) with a direct reference to Robert O'Dowd's transnational model of virtual exchange for global citizenship education, proposed in 2018. As an integrated part of the language learning curriculum, the project creates a virtual space which parallels the space-time of traditional class tuition, and which students can inhabit with a significant degree of autonomy. More specifically, this paper gives an account of how students, through real-world tasks, could develop global citizenship. [For the complete volume, see ED609298.]

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2021

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