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Politics, Global Citizenship and Implications for Education

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This chapter examines politics as a perspective and context for global citizenship education. The main argument is that the politics literature provides useful notions for conceptualizing global citizenship, and raises important issues such as global political leadership, authority, legitimacy and debates over change, but that political theory on global citizenship is constrained by the reality of a world politically structured in nation-state form, together with the predominance of Western discourses and ideologies on areas related to global citizenship. Implications for education include the need for further politics research from under-represented perspectives and the potential for imagining otherwise.

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  1. Centre for Tertiary Teaching and Learning, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Lynne Parmenter

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  1. Department of Education, University of York, York, United Kingdom

    Ian Davies

  2. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

    Li-Ching Ho

  3. Department of Education and Social Justice, School of Education, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Dina Kiwan

  4. Department of Elementary Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Carla L. Peck

  5. Faculty of Education, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, United Kingdom

    Andrew Peterson

  6. Faculty of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Edda Sant

  7. Department of Education Policy Studies, Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

    Yusef Waghid

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Parmenter, L. (2018). Politics, Global Citizenship and Implications for Education. In: Davies, I., et al. The Palgrave Handbook of Global Citizenship and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59733-5_21

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