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She presents some of the key findings from her study on how citizenship and international development issues are taught in post-primary schools. In Chapter 4, Douglas Bourn argues for a constructivist approach to development education whereby social and economic interventions are tailored to the particular pedagogical needs being addressed. He suggests that there has perhaps ‘been too much emphasis on rhetoric 14 Introduction: Transformative Learning in the Age of Neoliberalism for social change but too little on looking at pedagogical challenges and opportunities and recognising the limits to progress’.
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Everyone is quiet waiting for you to speak. They respect you. They know what you have done. Think about the difference you have made to this campaign! Think about all the people you have helped in Africa… Listening to this as a Southern person was disturbing, but what was even more worrying was to observe that, when the young people opened their eyes and I asked around if they thought the visualisation was problematic, the answer was overwhelmingly ‘no’. They confirmed that their primary motivation for ‘training as an activist’ was related to self-improvement, the development of leadership skills or simply having fun, enhanced, of course, by the moral supremacy and 21 22 Soft versus Critical Global Citizenship Education vanguardist feeling of being responsible for changing or saving the world ‘out there’.
