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Conceptions of Global Citizenship Education in East and Southeast Asia

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This chapter focuses on several case studies that represent a range of historical, political, economic, and social contexts found in East and Southeast Asia and it highlights some of the significant exogenous and endogenous conditions that help shape these countries’ responses to globalization. Research studies indicate that global economic pressures have resulted in the governments utilizing the discourse of globalization to serve nationalistic economic goals and to define an exclusive national identity. The review of literature also shows how the state plays a central role in the inclusion and framing of particular discourses of global citizenship in school curricula.

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  1. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

    Li-Ching Ho

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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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Ho, LC. (2018). Conceptions of Global Citizenship Education in East and Southeast Asia. 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_6

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