Critical global citizenship education with marginalized groups

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A dialogue between practitioners in Brazil and the United Kingdom with

Piers von Berg (Birmingham City University) and Bruno Botelho Da Costa (Instituto Federal de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio de Janeiro)*

Friday 6 March 2026 at 1pm GMT

Global citizenship education (GCE) for critical consciousness is a platform for different educators to encounter each other’s practice. One such model of GCE for critical consciousness is proposed by Emiliano Bosio and Yusef Waghid (2023). Key elements of the model include praxis, reflexive dialogue, a decolonial understanding of power relations, caring ethics and humanization.

This new model is tested against the experiences of the authors as educators in the global North and global South. The authors conduct a reflexive dialogue concerning their work with students from and learning with marginalized communities in Brazil and the UK. By conducting a reflexive dialogue, educators can transcend, critique and contextualise their practices, and thereby create shared understandings of differences and common causes. This approach shows a new way of understanding the ‘global’ element of GCE by seeing it as an invitation to examine and test differences between educators, disciplines, cultures and with students.

A joint event with the new research cluster Human rights and social justice in education - Law | Birmingham City University (BCU).

*See forthcoming chapter under the same name in the forthcoming Handbook of Global Citizenship Education, Gaudelli, W and Römhild, R (eds) (Elgar, 2026). See: Handbook on Global Citizenship Education.