Browsing by Subject "dekonstruktiivinen luenta"

The objective of this study was to examine what sort of differences and Otherness are constructed in global education and how those are produced. Education for global citizenship can be seen as an objective for global education. Therefore, it is also important to analyze how global citizenship education is justified in global education. My perspective on global education is based on post-colonial and post-structural feminist theories. The study data consist of three documents that deal with global education. The documents are produced in different projects governed by educational administration offices. As a research method, I applied deconstructive reading. The method was utilized in order to identify hierarchical binary oppositions through which the differences and Otherness are constructed in the study data. In addition to deconstructive reading, the metaphors I have applied are 'the return of the colonial and the return of the colonizer' and 'modern Western thinking as an abyssal thinking' invented by Boaventura de Souza Santos (2007). The study data constructs a subject named as "us", which is positioned as Finnish, European and Western. The subject "us" is constructed in relation to "other", which I named in this research as colonial Other, new abyssal colonial Other, and/or Other referred as minorities. According to my study, education for global citizenship was justified as a response to the encounter of "us" and Other and as a response to global challenges. Global education and global citizenship education were based on the offset of modern humanism, which appeared in the attempts to define universal epistemologies and ethical codes. Based on the results of this research, the offsets of global education epistemologies ought to be re-evaluated critically. Furthermore, opportunities for global education which question the categories of "us" and Other should be addressed in forthcoming research.