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One Size Fits All? Global Education for Different Educational Audiences

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Contesting and Constructing International Perspectives in Global Education

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The term global education means different things to different people and there has been longstanding discussion about how to define it, and how best to teach it (Subedi, 2010). Terms such as development education, peace education, global citizenship education, international education and multicultural education are often used interchangeably in connection with global education; without critique.

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  4. Australian Catholic University, Australia

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  5. University of Newcastle, Australia

    D. Donnelly

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Reynolds, R. (2015). One Size Fits All? Global Education for Different Educational Audiences. In: Reynolds, R., et al. Contesting and Constructing International Perspectives in Global Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-989-0_3

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