ABSTRACT

In this paper we focus on two types of middle-class families: those who avoid air travel for environmental reasons and those who choose to live nomadic lives, travelling with their children around the world and staying weeks or months in certain locations, mainly in Asia, South America, and Africa. We analyse data gathered from interviews with parents, blogs, fora and more traditional media, where families presented and explained their choice and offered some detailed accounts on how they perceive their travel practices and its effect on their children. The choice to combine the analysis of these seemly highly contradictory practices together is motivated by the significant similarities found in many of their narratives, both in their non-traditional travel choices that aim to challenge certain middle-class norms, and in their desire to use these unique family travel strategies for global citizenship education. We argue that such an unsettling of normative middle-class practices can be seen as the beginning of an ontological shift in the way GCE is understood and practiced.

摘要

在本文中，我们关注两种类型的中产阶级家庭：出于环境原因避免乘飞机旅行的家庭，以及选择过游牧生活、带着孩子环游世界并在某些地方（主要是在亚洲）停留数周或数月的中产阶级家庭、南美洲和非洲。我们分析了从与父母、博客、论坛和更传统媒体的访谈中收集的数据，在这些媒体中，家庭展示并解释了他们的选择，并提供了一些关于他们如何看待他们的旅行习惯及其对孩子的影响的详细说明。将这些看似高度矛盾的做法的分析结合在一起的选择是出于他们的许多叙述中发现的显着相似之处，无论是在他们旨在挑战某些中产阶级规范的非传统旅行选择中，并希望将这些独特的家庭旅行策略用于全球公民教育。我们认为，规范中产阶级实践的这种不安可以被视为 GCE 被理解和实践方式本体论转变的开始。