scholarly journals Promoting Global Citizenship through an Information-Based Focus on United Nations International Events

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 01003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen V. Del Carmen ◽  
Joevel A. Bartolome
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
International Peace ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
International Events

Rapid advances in technology, information, and transportation have made true what was once just an idea. This was popularized by communication scholar Marshall McLuhan into a reality. These advances have consequently helped develop global citizenship education. With this development comes the realization that young people need not go out of their country to embrace global citizenship. What Journalism and Print Media students at the University of St. La Salle did to heighten their global citizenship education was to use mass and social media to promote selected international events of the United Nations under the project, ―Connecting… Informing… We Are Citizens of the World‖. The feedback of the students show that such approach is an effective tool in making young people aware and be involved in the discussion and action for social justice and peace, which are requisites of global citizenship. This paper hopes to share with other S-L advocates, especially those in Communication programs that they can be vital channels in promoting global citizenship among their students as well as strategies they can use, and consequently, contribute to efforts toward the attainment of international peace, unity amid diversity and development.

What Do We Ask of Global Citizenship Education? A Study of Global Citizenship Education in a Canadian University

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynette Shultz
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Educational Goal ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
Deliberative Dialogue ◽  
The World ◽  
Deliberative Processes ◽  
Equity And Inclusion

This article presents findings from a study of a Canadian university that has named 'global citizenship' as a key educational goal. Drawing on theories of globalization, deliberative democracy, and deliberative processes including discursive closure, this study examines the multiple demands made of 'global citizenship' in higher education and the subsequent educational projects that are designed to meet this educational goal. The research questioned whether discursive closure was being engaged to limit 'global citizenship' to a modernity project where, as the literature suggested, (neo) liberalism and universalism ultimately served to make the world the un-gated playground of the elite where they might work, play, and consume without national or local political and cultural restrictions. In contrast, we wondered whether these policy openings might also be reflections of shifts in practices toward justice, equity, and inclusion with considerations of the historical and cultural histories and legacies of international relations of colonialism and imperialism. Using deliberative dialogue as a data collection method, the researchers were able to surface educators' multiple understandings of global citizenship as well as possible discursive closure and/or emerging social justice in the courses, projects, and policies of this institution.

Educating citizens of ‘the global’: Mapping textual constructs of UNESCO’s global citizenship education 2012–2015

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena VanderDussen Toukan
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
Educational Stakeholders ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Mapping ◽  
Discursive Constructions

In this article, I pose the question of what constructs of ‘global citizenship education’ are being mobilized by key international actors. I undertake a comparative analysis of three key United Nations (UN) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) documents that have emerged in the past 5 years to frame the content and pedagogy of global citizenship education among member states and educational stakeholders. This comparison asks to what degree the documents’ discursive constructions of ‘the global’, ‘citizenship’ and ‘education’ are transformative, and what they might contribute to an ongoing conversation on the aims of education. I suggest that it is important to reflect constructively on the values, assumptions and strategies of key actors who aim to provide answers for fundamental questions about the nature, purpose and applications of education for a wide array of local educational contexts, needs and conditions.

Global Citizenship Education in the Era of Globalization

2020 ◽  
pp. 274-291
Author(s):  
Titus Ogalo Pacho
Keyword(s):  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Ripple Effects ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizens ◽  
The World ◽  
Education And Development ◽  
Development Discourses

Global citizenship education (GCE) has become an important topic in education and development discourses in an increasingly globalised world. Globalisation has affected the world socially, culturally, economically, politically, environmentally, and technologically. This calls for education that can empower learners to become engaged global citizens: learners who can understand that factors like globalisation, the global economic crisis, the refugee crisis, and climate change challenge traditional boundaries because of their ripple effects. Global citizenship education becomes an important tool to aid learners' appreciation the interconnectedness of the world and its diverse cultures, and their role in responding to global challenges. The aim of global citizenship education is to create active and responsible global citizens. Based on a qualitative research approach, this chapter discusses the concepts of global citizenship, global citizenship education, and the role of global citizenship education in sustainable development.

scholarly journals From "knowing" to "not knowing": Critical global citizenship education for engineering partnerships

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-184
Author(s):  
Nora Pillard Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Service Learning ◽  
College Of Engineering ◽  
The University

This article was part of a larger study that explored community participants’ perspectives in [Municipality, Country] about the long-term global service learning (GSL) partnership with [Name of university] University’s College of Engineering (Author, year). This article explores the question: From the community participants’ perspectives, what are their educational goals for the university engineering students in this partnership? While I intentionally centered this article on the community participants’ perspectives, I also explored areas of alignment and areas of difference between the different stakeholder groups’ perspectives about learning and knowledge. Although global citizenship surfaced in interviews with both community and university participants, the community participant perspectives push farther than the university administrators/ faculty and call for critical global citizenship education (Andreotti, 2006).

scholarly journals Agonistic possibilities for global unlearning: Constraints to learning within global citizenship education and social movements

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-218
Author(s):  
Helen Underhill
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Agonistic Pluralism

The continued rise of populisms and divisions alongside widening inequalities nationally and globally give increasing urgency to the question of how educators and activists can respond. This article examines the possibilities that emerge from the connections between global citizenship education (GCE) and learning in social movements, both spaces where people seek to engage others in ideas of how the world is, could and should be. Drawing on Mouffe's (2005) theory of agonistic pluralism to engage conflict and emotion with possibilities for learning and unlearning, the case study reveals the significance of recognizing constraints created by histories and narrations of the 'other'. The article calls for more work on the intersections of unlearning and agonism in order to create agonistic pedagogies for activism and GCE.

Daisaku Ikeda’s Philosophy of Value Creating Global Citizenship Education and Africana Humanism

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (SI) ◽  
pp. 69-79
Author(s):  
Joy Williams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Educational Models ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
Kwame Nkrumah ◽  
The World

Daisaku Ikeda proclaimed that Africa would be the beacon of hope for the world in the twenty-first century. Contemporaneously, Kwame Nkrumah was excited about the potentially galvanizing role a united Africa might play on the world scene. Nkrumah envisioned the reawakening of an African personality, which would provide the foundational essence for the United States of Africa and accelerate African psychological, political, and economic decolonization. Nkrumah’s conceptualizations of unity mesh with Ikeda’s paradigms of global citizenship. This paper shows how Ikeda’s philosophy of value-creating education for global citizenship could amalgamate Africana educational models toward global citizenship as a unifying factor in Africa and the diaspora and as an instrument for making Africana Humanism the spirit of the 21st century.

scholarly journals Are WE the world? A critical reflection on selfhood and global citizenship education

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenyu Wang ◽  
Diane M. Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Class Privilege ◽  
School Curricula

Although much debate exists on the conceptualization, nature, and goals of global citizenship education, there has been widespread support for incorporating ideals of global citizenship into the practices, texts, and curricula of U.S. schools and universities. This article offers an interpretive discourse-based critique of ideas of selfhood underlying global citizenship education. Based on analyses of two U.S. high school curricula and materials available on websites devoted to global citizenship, we develop a critique of universalizing constructs of selfhood that underlie global citizenship discourse.  These assumptions obscure reflection on dynamics of social class privilege that shape global citizenship activism and situate global citizenship education as a potentially counter-productive neoliberal discourse. The article concludes with recommendations for practitioners interested in developing a more self-reflective and critical global citizenship education.

scholarly journals Development Education – Globales Lernen – Global Citizenship Education. Bleibende Aporien und strategische Offerten im Weltkollektiv

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (04) ◽  
pp. 4-12
Author(s):  
Gregor Lang-Wojtasik ◽  
Selina Schönborn
Keyword(s):  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Global Learning ◽  
Development Education ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Future Potential ◽  
Globales Lernen ◽  
Point Of Departure

The current transformation challenges of the world span between communication offers of the world society and action-related options of the world community. The inseparable unity of their difference is marked by the construct of the global collective. This serves as the point of departure for questions concerning the future potential that is intended and expectable through education and learning and that is immanent to conceptions of globally oriented educational work. Thus, the type of framework moves into focus in which the concepts of development education, global learning and global citizenship education can flourish.

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