Becoming a Global Witness

The project addresses the importance of Global Social Witnessing (GSW) as a new potential educational concept for transformative learning. Matoba (2019) defines GSW as a method for the emerging human capacity to mindfully attend global events with an embodied consciousness and thereby create an inner space that reflects these events.

In the 21. In the 21st century, adult education has a great responsibility to create spaces in which a cosmopolitan society can be prepared for the future; in which learners are encouraged to explore the contours of a cosmopolitan identity and its implications for issues of social and personal identity; in which they can acquire skills to develop global perspectives on global political processes; and in which learners can practice GSW with an open awareness of the hermeneutic circle in which members of an organisation move from an interpretation of the broader context of a perspective to an emphatic perception of the detailed elements of the message.