GLOBAL IS BECOMING EVERYWHERE: Global Sharing Pedagogy

Abstract

This chapter introduces Global Sharing Pedagogy (GSP), a new pedagogical framework for designing teaching and learning in schools. It provides a model that can be applied when designing, implementing, and evaluating teaching and learning. Changes in knowledge, learning and learning spaces, work, and technology have made our world smaller and seemingly borderless. The need to learn what are known as 21st-century skills is urgent. The aim of GSP is to promote students’ engagement in learning and connect formal with informal settings. The model has four elements: (1) active student-driven knowledge creation, (2) collaboration, (3) networking, and (4) digital media competencies and literacies. The chapter draws from empirical data and discusses possible ways to apply the model in schools in digital storytelling projects. It also suggests that elements of GSP should be important in learning spaces outside the school in adult education and working life.