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This chapter explores global justice in relation to ideas about global ethics. It commences from the assumptions, first, that the manifest effects of increased globalization raise serious questions about what, if anything, ethically obligates one to others; and, second, that a global ethic requires a foundation which moves beyond empirical claims in order to provide a meaningful ethic for human bonds qua human beings. It is argued that to understand global justice must necessarily involve a conception of the moral relationship between people living beyond national boundaries and that, in order to be meaningful, such an ethic must include a basis for motivation. It is argued that, in order to take political-representational dimensions of social justice seriously, we must have an understanding of the ethical relationship between humans. To illustrate this point, some key issues regarding a particular form of political-representational justice – dialogical interaction – are explored. Finally, the chapter identifies some implications of the discussion offered for education for citizenship and, in doing so, posits a particular way of conceiving the ‘globally oriented citizen’.
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Peterson, A. (2016). Global Justice and Educating for Globally Oriented Citizenship. In: Peterson, A., Hattam, R., Zembylas, M., Arthur, J. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Education for Citizenship and Social Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51507-0_12
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