How might a university global citizenship program enable students to draw on lived experiences of human rights and develop profound empathy and human solidarity?

In this webinar, Piers von Berg reports on his experiences of designing and researching a university-based global citizenship education programme, using participative theatre. Piers illustrates how he enabled students to engage in authentic reflection and how the pedagogical methods he employed stimulated new ‘becomings’ in students’ civic identities and sense of agency.

Piers reflects on ways in which the theories and practices he used can be understood as a form of transformative human rights education. He discusses how participatory theatre can be used to support students in recognizing the human dignity of excluded others and their experiences of injustice, thereby extending their sense of community, solidarity and agency. He proposes this theatre-based learning as an alternative to market-driven university-based global citizenship education, allowing student participants to observe themselves in action.

Read Piers’s article here: http://doi.org/10.7577/hrer.5120