scholarly journals Editorial: Technologization of Global Citizenship Education as Response to Challenges of Globalization

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. i-vii
Author(s):  
Anatoli Rapoport
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
Economic Exchanges

Cultural, linguistic, and economic exchanges between communities, including nations, are as old as civilization itself, but only recently did such exchanges receive an appropriate and universally recognized name: globalization. Naming the process caused a significant shift in how globalization came to be perceived, and it has become an important issue in political agendas, economic policies, and cultural aspirations. In other words, globalization helped shape and refine debates about global interconnections and interdependence, universality of human rights, and the importance of economic and social justice.

Practitioner perspectives on learning for social change through non-formal global citizenship education

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor J Brown
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Small Individual ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
The Social

This article engages with debates about transformative learning and social change, exploring practitioner perspectives on non-formal education activities run by non-governmental organisations. The research looked at how global citizenship education practitioners met their organisation’s goals of change for social justice through educational activities. This education is sometimes criticised for promoting small individual changes in behaviour, which do not ultimately lead to the social justice to which it pertains to aim. Findings suggest that this non-formal education aims to provide information from different perspectives and generate critical reflection, often resulting in shifts in attitudes and behaviour. While the focus is often on small actions, non-formal spaces opened up by such education allow for networks to develop, which are key for more collective action and making links to social movements. Although this was rarely the focus of these organisations, it was these steps, often resulting from reflection as a group on personal actions, which carried potentially for social change.

scholarly journals Global Citizenship Education and Human Rights in Scottish education: An analysis of education policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J Daniels
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
Scottish Government

Recently, doubt has been cast on the ability of Scottish education to meet relevant Human Rights requirements relating to education. This article will outline both a means of clarification for international requirements for Human Rights Education, and an analysis of documentation outlining Scottish educational policy for compatibility with these requirements. In doing so, this article will outline the development, and application, of a tool for document analysis focused on international requirements for Human Rights Education. The findings of this analysis suggest a number of key limitations in the current approach favoured by the Scottish Government. This approach posits Global Citizenship Education as a cross-curricular theme capable of fulfilling obligations in relation to rights in Curriculum for Excellence. I suggest that there is a distinct lack of support for the Human Rights Education requirements relating to the inclusion of taught content about human rights and that problems of apoliticality and the misguided focus on responsibilities all stand as significant barriers to Global Citizenship Education meeting the aims of Human Rights Education. I argue, on this basis, that the strategy currently adopted in Scotland appears to fall short of meeting basic international requirements for Human Rights Education.

scholarly journals Enacting Critical Citizenship: An Intersectional Approach to Global Citizenship Education

Societies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Maayke de Vries
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Black Feminists ◽  
Critical Interpretation

Global citizenship is a popular concept that was fully embraced by UNESCO in 2015 with a framework for Global Citizenship Education (GCE). This pedagogical guidance can be characterized as transformative since it aims to foster reflective citizens who contribute to building a more inclusive, just, and peaceful world. Thus, GCE allows educators to take a critical approach to their teaching, hereby articulating a clear social justice orientation towards citizenship education. However, recent studies indicate that most interpretations and thus implementations of GCE do not translate into a social action approach. Therefore, this article conceptualizes an intersectional approach to GCE, to make a critical approach of GCE more likely by practitioners. Intersectionality was developed by Black feminists in the US, to highlight structural oppressions and privileges on the basis of analytical categories. Intersectionality, furthermore, allows for opportunities to recognize resilience and resistance in marginalized communities. Therefore, an intersectional approach to GCE would develop sensibilities among students to understand global structures of oppression and domination on the basis of analytical categories like race, gender, and class. This knowledge would lead to an awareness of one’s own complicity and shared responsibility, resulting in deliberations and eventually political actions. The overall aim is to provide practitioners with a concrete suggestion of a critical interpretation of GCE, to show its potential as a social justice-orientated framework for educators in especially continental Europe.

Global citizenship education: A new ‘moral pedagogy’ for the 21st century?

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 506-524
Author(s):  
Sara Franch
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
International Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Educational Discourse ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
International Education Policy ◽  
Moral Structure

In the past two decades global citizenship education (GCE) has become established in national and international education policy. This article focuses on the emergence of GCE in the educational discourse of the Province of Trento in northern Italy and outlines how policymakers and teachers construct GCE as a pedagogical framework for schooling in the 21st century. Combining the perspectives that emerge from the scholarly literature with the findings of a qualitative study based on Constructivist and Informed Grounded Theory, the article proposes a typology of GCE ideal-types. The typology illustrates two ‘mainstream ideal-types’ of GCE (neo-liberal human capitalism and cosmopolitan humanism) and two ‘critical ideal-types’ (social-justice activism and critical counter practice). In the province studied, the dominant perspective is cosmopolitan humanism. GCE is essentially conceptualised as a ‘new moral pedagogy’ that reflects adherence and commitment to a universal moral structure based on humanistic cosmopolitan values. The author believes that critical GCE perspectives in line with social-justice activism and critical counter practice should find expression in both policies, curricula and practices. However, this is recognised as a challenge which could be partially addressed through teacher education and an alliance between academia and practice.

scholarly journals Charting a democratic course for global citizenship education: Research directions and current challenges

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. Myers
Keyword(s):  
Civic Education ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
High Stakes Testing ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
Starting Point

This article outlines research directions for global citizenship education, by emphasizing the centrality of democratic goals for schools in the 21st century. Despite a significant shift in educational policies and practices towards addressing education that respond to the conditions of globalization, there is not a clear vision regarding its role in schools. Furthermore, curriculum reforms such as global citizenship education inevitably face the issue of whether to adapt to neoliberal tenets of privatization, high stakes testing and standards-based accountability, or to resist and challenge these policies with alternative, democratic visions of schooling. This article argues that for global citizenship education to reach maturity, there is a need for a programmatic research agenda that addresses the complex dynamics that globalization has introduced to schooling, particularly the challenges to teaching and learning for helping youth to make sense of the world and their role in it. An analysis of recent advances in research and practice in civic education is used as a starting point to advance directions for global citizenship education. Two key directions are suggested: to gain a more secure foothold in schools and the need to focus on a shared conceptual focus that helps researchers, practitioners and other stakeholders to access the same body of practices and knowledge.

Global Citizenship Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 464-480
Author(s):  
Christoph Wulf
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Peace Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
World Community ◽  
Heritage Education

Abstract Global Citizenship Education. Building a Planetary World Community in the Anthropocene In the Anthropocene, what do we mean by global citizenship education, what do we mean by building a planetary world community? The paper explores these questions and uses the example of education for sustainable development, heritage education, human rights education, and peace education to show how a sense of belonging to the global community can be created. It also develops numerous viewpoints that play an important role in achieving a planetary consciousness.

scholarly journals Narrating Humanity : Children's Literature and Global Citizenship Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Aliona Yarova
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Philosophical Standpoint ◽  
History Of ◽  
Child Reader ◽  
Rights Issues

The aim of this thesis is to explore how children’s magic realist fiction contributes to critical Global Citizenship Education (GCE). This study argues that children’s magic realist literature can facilitate young readers’ knowledge and understanding of human rights issues and promote environmental awareness in a non-didactic manner by representing global issues from non-human perspectives. The thesis comprises four articles. The first study explores the non-human perspective of an animalhuman ‘cyborg’ protagonist in Peter Dickinson’s novel Eva (1988). The study shows how the non-human perspective allows the reader to go beyond anthropocentric boundaries in order to explore the issue of treating the other. The second study investigates an animal perspective on the Roma genocide along with the mistreatment of animals in the Second World War in Sonya Hartnett’s The Midnight Zoo (2010). The animal perspective shows human intolerance of other humans (the Roma) intertwined with human actions towards animals and encourages the reader in a non-didactic way to adopt an eco-philosophical standpoint. The third study is concerned with the representation of the Holocaust from the point of view of a supernatural narrator, Death, in Marcus Zusak’s The Book Thief (2005). Death’s inverted magic realist narrative facilitates the young reader’s understanding of human rights issues and represents the history of the genocide in a non-didactic manner. The fourth study examines the relationships between humans and the natural environment shown from the non-human perspective of a tree. Taking the lens of holistic ecology, this study explores the representation of human – nature relationships in Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls (2011) and how the novel guides the child-reader towards an awareness of environmental issues.

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