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Global Citizenship Education1

A Skillful Version of Social Transformation

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In recent years, there has been a growing interest in global citizenship education. Although the term global citizenship is still under debate, social (in)justice seems to be dominant concepts in various models of global citizenship education, which results in different approaches (both adopted and proposed) to social transformation.

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Nguyen, T.T.A. (2015). Global Citizenship Education1. In: Abdi, A.A., Shultz, L., Pillay, T. (eds) Decolonizing Global Citizenship Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-277-6_4

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