Educação para a cidadania global: trabalho colaborativo internacional baseado em plataforma digital

Abstract

Global Citizenship Education (GCE) has emerged as an important framework for schools’ contribution towards an active and critic citizenship. This paper focuses on a research held with students of a Portuguese school within the international project Connecting Worlds (based on an online digital platform). This was an activity from the Portuguese GCE Network, a community of practice composed by teachers around educational activities focused on global citizenship of tenths of educators and teachers from the whole country. It was sought young participation in the project, the usability of the platform and to know the involved teachers’ assessment, and their will to go on again next year. Thus, it was concluded that the Connecting Worlds project contributed to the awareness of young people in relation to addressed social issues, to consolidate and develop the GCE Network, including the local dynamics associated with this school.