TELL ME (Trans-contextual edification, learning and living through mediated education)

How can (or can’t) students with the help of internet platforms cooperate on value based issues across different subject areas and fields and national borders and through a common lingua franca, namely English? Will they be able to cooperate with students abroad, who offer complementary skills to their own knowledge?
These are the elementary questions raised in the course of a cooperation project between a class of Danish students at VIA-UC, Aarhus, Denmark on the one side and a German class of students at Ludwig Maximilian University, München, Germany (in both cases are the students studying to become teachers). The Danish and German students will be organized in local groups (LG) which each will be on working didactical reflection to their own “local theme” (LT) in relation to different value based subject matters (existential philosophical themes and Holocaust education). The cooperation is organized in trans-local groups (TLG); each TLG consisting of one German and one Danish LG. The students will in TLG negotiate and choose a common trans-local theme (TLT), which they think fruitfully can be related to each of the two groups’ LT and used as common communicative categorical frame.
This research is “prototype research”; the research questions focuses on how collaboration through development of joint categories both might throw new light over the relation between learning and edification, and might help in contributing to resolve important scalability issues in Global Education