Through this course, you will explore education not simply as schooling, but as a lifelong and socially embedded process through which knowledge is created, shared, challenged, and transformed. Rather than asking only what people should learn, we will ask deeper questions about whose knowledge is valued, how learning occurs, and how education can contribute to more just, inclusive, and sustainable futures.
We will examine diverse educational approaches across cultures and contexts through comparative education, educational innovation, Open Education, learning ecologies, artificial intelligence, decolonial perspectives, and international case studies. Through collaborative inquiry and project-based learning, you will design innovative educational responses to real-world global challenges.
Ultimately, the course aims to help you become thoughtful global citizens who can critically evaluate knowledge, appreciate multiple ways of learning, and imagine new educational possibilities for a rapidly changing world.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
(1) Explain key concepts related to education, knowledge, and global change from diverse cultural and international perspectives.
(2) Analyze critically contemporary educational issues, including the roles of technology, artificial intelligence, equity, and social justice in shaping learning.
(3) Communicate and collaborate effectively with peers from diverse disciplinary and cultural backgrounds to discuss educational challenges and solutions.
(4) Design an evidence-informed educational innovation that addresses a contemporary global challenge by integrating insights from comparative education and multiple knowledge traditions.