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Global citizenship education (GCE) despite its multiple understandings and conceptualizations is critiqued as often teaching Western-framed understandings of citizenship, especially with respect to environmental pedagogies (Syed and Misiaszek 2020). In this paper, we uncover the hidden side of the eastern framings of citizenship education, specifically by looking into the context-specific issues in India and the Philippines.

Moreover, we establish how social-environmental literacies in these contexts can be envisioned and further argue that the differences and the dynamics of these countries call out for a need to frame ecopedagogy within the sphere of context-based global citizenship education.

This argument is built upon previous research (Syed 2018; Syed and Misiaszek 2020; Marasigan 2017) to explain that the context should dictate the course of global citizenship education in these non-Western contexts of the two aforementioned countries. While drawing from past...

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  1. School of Government, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Syed Nitas Iftekhar

  2. Philippine Normal University, Manila, Philippines

    Arlyne C. Marasigan

  3. College of Graduate Studies in Teacher Education and Research, Manila, Philippines

    Arlyne C. Marasigan

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  1. Syed Nitas Iftekhar
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Correspondence to Syed Nitas Iftekhar .

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  1. WMIER, The University of Waikato WMIER, Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand

    Michael A. Peters

  2. Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Richard Heraud

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  1. Faculty of Education, Institute of Educational Theories, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Greg William Misiaszek

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Iftekhar, S.N., Marasigan, A.C. (2019). Contextual-Critical GCE, Ecopedaogogical Framings of. In: Peters, M., Heraud, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Innovation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2262-4_76-1

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