Contemporary Views on Global Citizenship Education
Global citizenship education has gained much currency in the last decade through rigorous volumes of which the following three texts have been identified: Education for Citizenship and Democracy (Arthur et al. 2008); Global Citizenship Education: Philosophy, Theory and Pedagogy (Peters 2008); and The Cosmopolitan Reader (Wallace Brown and Held 2010). Firstly, global citizenship education is built on understandings of individuals and society in relation to the exercise of rights, identity, participation, and their attachment to “internationalism” – that is, relations between and not across nations (Arthur et al. 2008: 4–5). In European societies in particular, citizenship education is conceived in terms of a basic language of rights, a worldview of humanity as a marketplace of autonomous and competitive individuals, and ideas of community engagement, solidarity, and belonging in a discourse of freedom and equality (Banks 2008: 310)....
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Waghid, Y. (2016). Global Citizenship Education Reconsidered: Taking the “Migrant” Other Seriously. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_510-1
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