Global citizenship education : : philosophy, theory and pedagogy / / edited by Michael A. Peters, Alan Britton, Harry Blee.

• Superior document: Contexts of Education ; 1
• TeilnehmendeR: Britton, Alan,; Blee, Harry, 1949-; Peters, Michael, 1948-
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, Netherlands : : Sense Publishers,, [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Contexts of Education ; 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The essays in this edited collection argue that global citizenship education realistically must be set against the imperfections of our contemporary political realities. As a form of education it must actively engage in a critically informed way with a set of complex inherited historical issues that emerge out of a colonial past and the savage globalization which often perpetuates unequal power relations or cause new inequalities. The essays in the book explore these issues and the emergent world ideologies of globalism, as well as present territorial conflicts, ethnic, tribal and nationalist rivalries, problems of increasing international migration and asylum, growing regional imbalances and increasing world inequalities. Contributors to this collection, each on their own way, argues that global citizenship education needs to project new values, to reality test and debate the language, concepts and theories of global citizenship and the proto-world institutions that seek to give expression to nascent aspirations for international forms of social justice and citizen participation in world government. Many of the contributors argue that global citizenship education offers the prospect of extending the liberal ideologies of human rights and multiculturalism, and of developing a better understanding of forms of post-colonialism. One thing is sure, as the essays presented in this book demonstrate so clearly, there can be no one dominant notion of global citizenship education as notions of ‘global’, ‘citizenship’ and ‘education’ are all contested and open to further argument and revision. Global citizenship education does not name the moment of global citizenship or even its emergence so much as the hope of a form of order where the rights of the individual and of cultural groups, irrespective of race, gender, ethnicity or creed, are observed, preserved and protected by all governments in order to become the basis of citizen participation in new global spaces that we might be tempted to call global civil society.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Michael A. Peters and Alan Britton -- Introduction / Michael A. Peters , Harry Blee and Alan Britton -- Two Meanings of Global Citizenship / James Tully -- The Discourse of Global Citizenship / Walter Humes -- Between Empires / Michael A. Peters -- Cosmopolitan Justice / Penny Enslin and Mary Tjiattas -- Revisioning Ideas of Citizenry / Christine Forde -- Diasporic Philosophy, Homelessness, and Counter-Education in Context / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Conflicting Imaginaries / George Richardson -- Cosmopolitanism, the Citizen and Processes of Abjection: / Thomas S. Popkewitz -- The Peculiar Place of Enlightenment Ideals in the Governance Concept of Citizenship and Democracy / Robert Shaw -- Cosmopolitanism / Marianna Papastephanou -- Citizenship, Education and the Claims of Religious Literacy / James C. Conroy and Robert A. Davis -- Cosmopolitanism and Citizenship Education / Leonard J. Waks -- Dialogues across the Pond / timothy Murphy -- A ‘Community of Communities’? / Bruce Carrington and Ian Menter -- MacIntyre’s Theory of Virtues: / Klas Roth -- Globalisation, the ThirdWay and Education Post 9/11 / Mark Olssen -- Revolutions within / Barbara Cruikshank -- Challenging the Dominant Neo-Liberal Discourse / Emery J. Hyslop-Margison and Alan M. Sears -- Citizenship Education and Diversity / James A. Banks -- Immigrants and Religious Conflict / Stephen J. Mckinney -- The World Citizen Travels with a Different View / Doret de Ruyter and Ben Spiecker -- Robert Owen and the Development of Good Citizenship in 19th Century New Lanark: / Francis J. O’Hagan -- A Social Justice Approach to Education for Active Citizenship / Julia Preece -- Citizenship and Its Discontents / Ali A. Abdi -- Democratic Citizenship, Philosophy of Islamic Education and Madrassah Schooling in South Africa / Yusef Waghid -- The Emergence of the Child-as-Citizen in Canada / Yvonne M. Hébert -- Education Implies Citizenship / Hans Hooghoff -- Global Citizens, Local Linguists / Evelyn Arizpe and James McGonigal -- Anti-racism Education for Global Citizenship / George Dei -- Between Europe and Africa / Penny Enslin -- The Decline of Democratic Politics in ‘Knowledge Societies’ and the Initiatives for Citizenship Education / Stavros Moutsios -- Global Citizenship: From Theory to Practice, Unlocking Hearts and Minds / Muna Golmohamad.