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Meet the Team: Generation Global

Generation Global is a pioneering global education programme for 12- to 17-year-olds, providing them with the skills and experience they need to navigate difference in a peaceful way. By providing global learning and dialogue opportunities, the programme helps young people to be resolute in the face of narratives that may feed the development of extremist ideologies.

Devised by an international group of educational experts, advisers and religious leaders, the programme provides opportunities for students to put critical thinking skills into practice through facilitated dialogue. Students learn about one another and explore the roots of openness and diversity in their own cultural and religious traditions.

Generation Global has worked with over 450000 students across 40 different countries and has trained over 14 000 teachers.

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For more information on Generation Global, please visit their website: https://generation.global/

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Meet the Team

Sally Wan, Principal Investigator

Sally Wai-Yan Wan, EdD, is a Professional Consultant at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include teacher education and development, curriculum and pedagogical design, and educational leadership. Recent publications have explored teacher leadership, teaching beliefs, and pedagogi- cal practices of differentiated instruction.

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Nuraan Davids, Principal Investigator

Nuraan Davids is the Chairperson of, and Professor of Philosophy of Education in the Department of Education Policy Studies in the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University. She is an NRF rated researcher, whose research interests include democratic citizenship education; Islamic education; and leadership and management inquiry. She is an Associate Editor of the South African Journal of Higher Education, and an Editorial Board Member of Ethics and Education, and the Journal on Education in Muslim Societies. Her most recent books are: Free speech, universities and pedagogical encounters: Reconfiguring democratic education (with Y. Waghid). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers (2019); and Teaching and Learning as a Pedagogic Pilgrimage: Cultivating Faith, Hope and Imagination (with Y. Waghid). New York & London: Routledge (2019).

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Suzannie Leung

Dr. Suzannie Leung is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has an interdisciplinary background of visual arts, psychology and early childhood education. She is a registered kindergarten teacher and a qualified kindergarten principal. With over ten years of experience in a variety of educational settings, she has engaged in teacher education, curriculum development, programme design for gifted children and curatorial work of early childhood art exhibitions. 

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Janet Orchard, Principal Investigator

Thank you for your interest in Going Global!

Working at the University of Bristol, I worked with other team members to create Going Global and am responsible for the smooth running of the project, including managing the finances. Excited by the potential of re-interpreting the Generation Global project for education students in Higher Education, I am delighted to see that shared dream becoming a reality. If you have any questions about the academic side of the project please feel free to contact me at edjlo@bristol.ac.uk. 

With a background in Religious Education and Philosophy and Education, I see global intercultural dialogue as a fun as well as valuable way in which to engage positively with people who are 'other' or different. On-line digital dialogue done well can make this possible for many people rather than a few. I see Going Global as a means of bringing education students in civically minded universities together to explore what matters to them as they develop as thinkers and/or teachers. This connects with a broader concern I have to 're-humanise' teacher education in the belief that building and sustaining good relationships is necessary to good teaching. 

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Sarah Smith, Research Assistant

Welcome to the Going Global blog! We look forward to bringing you updates on our exciting research and hope that our readers will engage with the material that we discuss on this platform.

I am the Research Assistant for the project, working via the University of Bristol. I am responsible for updating the blog and act as first point of contact, so if you have any questions about the project please feel free to contact me at goingglobalresearchproject@gmail.com.

My background is in Theology, Religion, Philosophy and Education and I am currently completing a PhD exploring the implicit and explicit religious identities of state-funded secondary schools in England at the University of Chichester.

What particularly attracted me to this project was the idea of exploring dialogue between cultures. My own research seeks to understand where the ideas that can be considered as ‘universal’ within Western societies really come from, and this research offers an opportunity to consider the similarities and differences between the experiences, ideas and concepts that inform the lives of participants from various locations.

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