Value-Creating Global Citizenship Education for Sustainable Development: Strategies and Approaches

ISBN-13: 9783030580612 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 155 str.

Namrata Sharma

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. A Sense of Interdependence, Common Humanity, and a Global Outlook

3. An Understanding of Peace and Non-Violence as being Central to the Human Rights Agenda

4. A Commitment to Reflective, Dialogic, and Transformative Learning

5. An Awareness of Climate Change as Planetary Citizens

6. A Commitment to Sustainable Development Through Intercultural Perspectives

7. A Belief in the Value-Creating Capacity for Social-Self Actualization

8. Conclusions – Recommendations for Policy and Practice

O autorze

Namrata Sharma is on the faculty at the State University of New York, USA, and an expert with the United Nations’ Harmony with Nature Knowledge Network. She is also an international education consultant and author of several books, including Value-Creating Global Citizenship Education: Engaging Gandhi, Makiguchi, and Ikeda as Examples (2018).

Blurb

This book discusses value-creating global citizenship education as a pedagogical approach developed by taking Soka studies as a focal point of inquiry. It uses a values-based lens to examine education for sustainable development and global citizenship. The author proposes curriculum, teaching, learning, and policy to address issues including climate change, human rights, and peace, while also engaging with the educational crises posed by current and potential future pandemics. Overall, these strategies move beyond education for individual empowerment in order to foster citizens capable of taking collective actions for local-global issues. The proposals emphasize the need to build relationships between learners and their natural-social-educational environment through formal, non-formal, and informal learning.