Global citizenship education in a post-disaster context of Aceh, Indonesia : perspectives of student teachers

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Maisara, Maisara and Curtis, Elizabeth and Mtika, Peter (2025) Global citizenship education in a post-disaster context of Aceh, Indonesia : perspectives of student teachers. International Review of Education. (In Press)

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Abstract

This article examines how student teachers make sense of global citizenship education (GCE) through Pancasila and citizenship education (PPKn) within a post-disaster context in Aceh Province, Indonesia. This qualitative study involved a group of final-year student teachers who were undertaking teaching practice as part of their teacher education programme. Using semi-structured interview data, the findings suggest that the notion of GCE is variously understood through formal education, everyday encounters as well as narratives of historical events of armed conflict and the Tsunami disaster. Approaching GCE through the local-global prism provides a nuanced understanding and exposes certain tensions between the predominantly secular orientation of GCE in the Global North and the Islamic orientation of PPKn in Aceh Province. The findings highlight the importance of recognising the ability of the student teachers to make sense of how the values and beliefs they develop through PPKn resonate with most GCE values and were also able to identify points of divergence. This study highlights how social-cultural realities can be brought into more equal conversation with GCE in ways which are respectful and embrace diversity.

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