Abstract
Globalization and digital media have been responsible for societal and educational challenges. There are educational approaches in the field of global learning and media competence that offer options to deal with these challenges. These approaches were combined in a course called ‘Global Medial’, mainly addressing students of educational subjects (primarily teacher training) at BA/MA level. This course provides online learning-based opportunities for Japanese and German students. With reference to this course, we describe the educational approaches of global learning, media competence and their possible interlinkages. For this description, we use the taxonomy of normative, descriptive and prescriptive. We then outline the first evaluation results of a course that took place in the Autumn term of 2017/2018 and draw conclusions for follow-up courses as well as recommendations for future research.
Highlights
Globalization and digital media have been responsible for societal and educational challenges
When the German researcher met the Japanese researcher in the field of media education, they decided to create the online course ‘Global Medial’ as an initial module for students of educational subjects at BA/MA level
Globalization encompasses societal processes beyond the nation state, whereas medialization stands for a permeation of society by digital media
Summary
Through experiences of social acceptance of oneself and others as equal human beings, people can reflect on their own potential and that of others as chances of a global community (Lang-Wojtasik, 2019) These four steps summarize possible didactic approaches to gain competences that will help deal with the challenges of world society. Both approaches to global learning as well as media competence are based on specific norms that deal with perceived societal challenges and offer feasible ways of fostering the ability to self-organize an individual performance within the context of a broader human collective (Lang-Wojtasik, 2018a). Its educational importance concerns diagnostics for preventative action, it is an instructive approach
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