Humans and Digitalization: a challenge for transboarder citizenship education

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Teaching hours (Asynchronous) 45
Released 26 August 2024
Duration 3 weeks time
ECVETS / ECTS 1,8 ECTS
Scientific Responsible Pella Calogiannakis
Cost 380 €

The Centre for Training and Lifelong Learning (K.E.DI.VI.M) of the University of Crete organises course with title : Humans and Digitalization: a challenge for transboarder citizenship education.

Τhe programme will be conducted by Asynchronous Distance Learning.

Application deadline : 20 August 2024.

Start of the Program at 26 of August 2024 (1^st week). End at 15 September 2024 (2nd and 3rd weeks)

Address note for participants

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Purpose

The purpose of the specific training program is to offer the trainees the knowledge so that they can come into contact with the field of Humans and Digitalization: a challenge for transboarder democratic citizenship education in cutting-edge research and theoretical approaches in the context of modern trends and considerations relating to critical digital citizen/citizenship, education for all, extracurricular activities, migrant students and global migration, modern digital skills and basic values and concepts relating to the crisis in education and sustainable development, social justice and teacher education, collaboration skills and backpack citizens, sustaining pedagogy, the role of the Art, as well as the e-citizen and the challenge of Artificial Intelligence. The aim of the program is for the trainees to acquire the necessary knowledge, techniques and skills and problematic that will be applauded, which concern the above mentioned area, that is Humans and Digitalization: a challenge for transboarder citizenship education in the 21st century.

Program Objective

The Program Objective is to offer to the trainers knowledge, attitudes, skills that have to do with the proposed area of the Program, that is Humans and Digitalization: a challenge for transboarder citizenship education in the framework of modern trends and issues that are discussed the field. The knowledge, the theories and researches that also combined with the digital citizen of the 21st century will be analyzed in the texts and the accompanied e-laboratories of the program.

Educational goals of the program

Cognitive Skills

The cognitive skills of the program are related to the ability to compile, organize and analyse theoretical and research approaches through comparisons, predictions and observations in the filed of Humans and Digitalization area as well as the challenges for transboarder citizenship education today, education for all, sustainable development and pedagogy, social justice, collaboration skills, the role of the art the extracurricular activities, migration issues and digital challenges like AI challenges.

Psychomotor skills

The psychomotor skills of the program have to do with the ability to use stimuli that develop into a motor activity, to take initiative, to prioritize mains concepts and problematic concerning the humans of modern era, the challenges of digitalization area (example the role of AI etc), as well as
the citizenship education in the 21st century via ‘e-citizen’ concept and related values, like social justice, collaboration and opportunities/challenges in teacher education.

Behaviours/attitudes

The program will offer to the participants ways to behave and acquire attitudes related to main theme of the program and develop their ability to use and acquire cognitive and psychomotor skills in different situations that have to do with the citizen, the citizenship education, the digital era and the existing challenges in formal and non-formal types of citizenship education, extracurriculum challenges, the use of art, attitudes towards migration issues, digitality and teachers education.

Who it is aimed at

Students and Higher Education Degree holders, Teachers of any level, Educators, Sociologists, Master degree and PhD (holders or candidates), participants of any kind of field who are interested for the topic.

Participation fees

380 € (must be paid before the starting of the Program).

Teaching Module	Duration of teaching modules (hours)
1. Humans and Digitalization: A challenge for transboarder citizenship education and society:	4,5 hours
2. Educating A World on the Move: Education for All (Migrant) Students	4,5 hours
3. Crisis in Education and the digital citizen and Sustainable development:	4,5 hours
4. Social Justice Education and Socially Just Teacher Education	4,5 hours
5. Digital market- unemployment- backpack citizens-team work and digital collaboration skills	4,5 hours
6. Culturally Relevant-Responsive-Sustaining Pedagogy: Challenges and Opportunities	4,5 hours
7. Digital Human Citizenship Skills, the role of the Art	4,5 hours
8. Fostering Democratic Active Citizenship in and through K-12 Education and Teacher Education: Community Service and Extracurricular Activities	4,5 hours
9. Reimagining Teacher Education for Immigrant Students in the Context of Global Migration: Teacher Education and the Role of Teacher Educators	4,5 hours
10 E-citizen in the 21^st century: Articfical Intellingence’s challenges	4,5 hours
TOTAL HOURS	45

Pella Calogiannakis

Scientific Responsible

Dr. Pella Calogiannakis is Professor of Comparative Education at the Pedagogical Department of Teacher Education at University of Crete, Greece. She studied at Sorbonne, Paris-V, Rene Descartes in Paris, France (D.E.A & PhD). Her research interests are related with Comparative Education and Political Socialization, especially on ‘human-citizen and world crisis, having experience in research and coordination of European programs on vulnerable people, on Teachers Training and Re-training in the area of critical pedagogy and socialization.

She is also a DVP of Zhengzhou University, P.R., in China. She is the author of ten books and editor (or co-editor) of 12 handbooks; she has published about 90 articles different languages (greek, english, french, chinese, japanese, africans, turkish, arab and russian languages) and over 2000 citations in google scholar. She has participated in many international congresses on Comparative Education and Citizenship Education in Greece & Europe, United States, Asia and Africa. She has lectured at the University of at North-West University's Potchefstroom in South Africa and in Saint John’s University in New York. She is the Coordinator in Crete for the European Program on the ‘Integration of Roma children in schools’ and Director of the post-graduate Program of the University of Crete-School of Education, on “Sciences of Education, Critical Pedagogy and Teachers Education”.

Sibel Akin Sabuncu

Academic Responsible

Sibel Akin-Sabuncu is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the Faculty of Education at TED University in Türkiye. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Curriculum and Instruction program at Middle East Technical University and her postdoc degree at Teachers College, Columbia University. She was a visiting scholar at Teachers College, Columbia University between 2014-2015 and 2021-2023. During her visit, she worked with Prof. Dr. A. Lin Goodwin and participated in “Teaching Residents at Teachers College (TR@TC2 &; TR@TC3)” research projects. She also worked at the Office of Accreditation and Assessment as the coordinator of the Department of Curriculum and Teaching and the Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology through the conduct of "Teachers College, Columbia University Self-Study Project". Her research interests lie at the nexus of teacher education, immigrant and refugee education, educational equity, social justice education, and culturally relevant pedagogy. Dr. Akin-Sabuncu has presented several research studies at leading international conferences (i.e., American Educational Research Association, European Conference on Educational Research, European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction) and participated in different national and international research projects (i.e., European Union Projects, Projects of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye, and Institutional Research Funds). She published papers in several peer-reviewed journals including Teaching and Teacher Education, European Journal of Teacher Education, Urban Education, and Journal of Education for Teaching.