Critical Online Conversations for Global Educators

Abstract

Educators in the 21st century need to be globally competent to help students understand the complexity and interdependence of global issues or forces to meet the diverse needs of students from diverse sociocultural, linguistic, and ethnic backgrounds; to effectively integrate educational technology in practices; and to foster active and responsible citizenship for both local and global communities. This chapter discusses the considerations of using critical online conversations as an authentic adult education strategy to develop educators' global perspectives and competences. Informed by the critical global citizenship education, critical online conversations can be a cost-effective approach for creating an open and safe virtual global learning community for educators. Assessing participation in critical online conversations is also discussed as an engagement and evaluation strategy.