The Longings and Limits of Global Citizenship Education: The Moral Pedagogy of Schooling in a Cosmopolitan Age

ISBN-13: 9780415819329 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 186 str.

Jeffrey Dill

Opis

As the world seemingly gets smaller and smaller, schools around the globe are focusing their attention on expanding the consciousness and competencies of their students to prepare them for the conditions of globalization. Global citizenship education is rapidly growing in popularity because it captures the longings of so many-to help make a world of prosperity, universal benevolence, and human rights in the midst of globalization's varied processes of change. This book offers an empirical account from the perspective of teachers and classrooms, based on a qualitative study of ten secondary schools in the United States and Asia that explicitly focus on making global citizens. Global citizenship in these schools has two main elements, both global competencies (economic skills) and global consciousness (ethical orientations) that proponents hope will bring global prosperity and peace. However, many of the moral assumptions of global citizenship education are more complex and contradict these goals, and are just as likely to have the unintended consequence of reinforcing a more particular Western individualism. While not arguing against global citizenship education per se, the book argues that in its current forms it has significant limits that proponents have not yet acknowledged, which may very well undermine it in the long run.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Origins  1. Why Global Citizenship?  2. Educating Citizens: The Long View  Part II: Features  3. Global Citizenship as Global Consciousness  4. Global Citizenship as Global Competencies  Part III: Problems  5. The Problem of Conformity  6. The Problem of Particularity  7. Liberal Individualism and the Limits of Global Citizenship Education  Part IV: Possibilities  8. Alternative Possibilities, Alternative Realities.  Conclusion.  Appendix A: Data and Method.  Appendix B: Education as Formation: Theoretical Framework.  

O autorze

Jeffrey S. Dill is Research Assistant Professor of Social Thought in the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University in St. Davids, PA.