Lost opportunities for globalisation, digitalisation, and socially sustainable education? Advocating for digital and global Bildung in Swedish upper secondary schools
2024 (English)In: Frontiers in Education, E-ISSN 2504-284X, Vol. 9, article id 1351709Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Sustainable development
00. Sustainable Development, 4. Quality education
Abstract [en]
In this article, we point to how the making visible of diverse linguistic, digital, and cultural competences can contribute to more sustainable and inclusive classroom contexts and future societies. Western notions of universal knowledge reproduces a western way of viewing the world and, as a result, this usually discounts alternative knowledge systems, which perpetuates inequality and may cause tensions in today's diverse classrooms. Our 2022 pilot study, drawing on an online survey with more than 700 respondents and focus group interviews with 27 participants, indicates that for some multiethnic, multi-abled, and otherwise diverse upper secondary students underlying, often ethnocentric, norms of Swedish education create hurdles in educational contexts. Firstly, in the Swedish context, non-normative and often global experiences are not recognised at school. Secondly, topics addressed in the courses they take are primarily focused on aspects originating in a Swedish, Nordic, or Western tradition. Curricular policies and classroom practices must take lost opportunities, which we argue are not socially sustainable, into account as a more global and holistic approach when articulating what educational learning is supposed to be about, for, and for whom, and thus integrating learning, digitalisation, and social sustainability.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Frontiers Media S.A., 2024. Vol. 9, article id 1351709
Keywords [en]
learning, education, globalisation, digitalisation, social sustainability
National Category
Pedagogy
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-63967DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1351709ISI: 001206708900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85191062629Local ID: GOA;;946154OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-63967DiVA, id: diva2:1850555
2024-04-102024-04-102024-05-06Bibliographically approved