A Delphi Study on the Development of Global Citizens' Competency Indicators in the Local Community: Focusing on the Case of Y-gu, Incheon

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop local community-level indicators that can monitor the capabilities of global citizens to measure the effectiveness of global citizenship education for adults amid the spread of global citizenship education. It followed the distinction of cognitive, social and emotional, and behavioral areas, which are the core competencies of global citizens presented by UNESCO. The categories were selected after reflecting the main conceptual words derived through prior research analysis and the preliminary survey results for related parties, and considering the major conceptual words necessary for Y-gu, Incheon. After that, an expert Delphi survey was conducted twice to develop indicators. The results of the study are as follows. A total of 46 indicators were developed, including 3 categories, 14 conceptual elements, and 17 questions in the cognitive domain, 3 categories, 13 concept elements, 15 questions in the social and emotional domain, and 3 categories, 10 concept elements, and 14 questions in the behavioral domain. Through this study, it was confirmed that global citizenship and local citizenship should be recognized from an integrated perspective, and that global problems should be viewed in connection with local daily lives. This study is meaningful in that it presented examples that can be appropriately used in other regions where global citizenship education is being conducted.