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Global Curriculum: Desirability and Feasiblity

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Global citizenship education; Global learning; Global perspectives

Definitions

Curriculum is a broad term that is commonly understood as a plan of what is learned in a course of education, including the written documentation that prescribes the detailed content and the ways of learning that a student of that course will experience (e.g., Wiles et al. 1989). However, curriculum scholars acknowledge that curriculum is difficult to define (Doll 2008; Marsh 2009; Dillon 2009; Hunkins and Ornstein 2016) and that:

Curriculum may be one of those key terms—like democracy, say—the meaning of which remains forever elusive, open, shifting, dynamic and undecidable. (Green 2017)

Considerations about how a “global” curriculum might be defined, and perhaps most importantly by whom or in relation to what criteria and purposes, are arguably even more critical and potentially complex.

Introduction

Fraser and Bosanquet (2006) acknowledge the wide variety of ways that educators use and...

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    Alicia Prowse

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

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  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

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Prowse, A. (2019). Global Curriculum: Desirability and Feasiblity. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Quality Education. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69902-8_63-1

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