Joint Seminar by FES, MSST, CCE and the Citizenship Education KRA
"Democracy , Citizenship Education, and Inclusion:
A Multimedimensional Approach"
7 Nov 2008
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Chair : Dr. Leung Yan Wing, Speaker : Prof. David L. Grossman
Prof. David L. Grossman, Ph.D.
David L. Grossman is currently Professor and Interim Dean of Education at Chaminade University and Adjunct Senior Fellow in the Education Program, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. Formerly he was the Dean of the Faculty of Languages, Arts and Sciences, and co-Head of the Centre for Citizenship Education, at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Prior to his academic career in Hong Kong he was the Director of the Stanford University Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE). His research interests include the citizenship education, international and comparative education, and teacher education. His recent publications includes three co-edited books, Social Education in Asia (with Joe Lo), Citizenship Curriculum in Asia and the Pacific (with Wing On Lee and Kerry Kennedy), and Improving Teacher Education through Action Research (with Ming-Fai Hui).
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Abstract: In this presentation Prof. Grossman offers a framework under which citizenship educators and advocates of inclusion can share a common agenda of seeking socially just and democratic schools. In an increasingly globalized world societies are increasingly faced with the challenge to recognize and/or integrate diverse groups into the polity. This raises the question of whether the norms built into the educational fabric of schools are compatible with the promotion of greater social equality. The stakes are high. Without citizenship education that focuses on justice and social equality, we face the prospect of becoming a world of economically developed and technically competent people who have lost, or who have never gained, the ability to be citizens able to reason cross-culturally, think critically, to cooperate on problems with people very different from ourselves.
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