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Global Citizenship means, connection.
How a new certification process using a developmental continuum is helping school communities define what
global citizenship means for them and what it looks like in action.
JCR: After your long experience travelling over 20 African countries and many more others around the world, what does
global citizenship means to you?
We believe
global citizenship means that all people have access to participate and influence in a world democracy.
Although GCE is well recognized as a key dimension of education for dealing with the challenges and opportunities posed by globalization, consensus about what
global citizenship means, and consequently what GCE should promote, is yet to be reached.
«Developing a clear definition of what
global citizenship meant at Ivanhoe was critical to this process.
Not exact matches
(I appreciate I am not an expert on what that
means, but it seems to me to go well beyond the idea of the ummah as a
global community of Muslims, which is undoubtedely compatible with democratic
citizenship, in an analogous way to how Roman Catholicism is, even if some in Britain once doubted that too).
A conscious
citizenship of some of the major
global problems that affected us
means to improve their knowledge of other cultures, stimulating the change of perspective and an own critical reflection.
To me,
global citizenship is a birthright and education must provide students with a
means to embrace this identity.
On one way or another, people and institutions around the world are questioning the value and
meaning of
Global Citizenship Education in the current context of globalization.
Working with educators, classroom teachers, and pre-service teachers at universities in Istanbul, Küthaya, and Izmir, he focused on
global citizenship, with particular emphasis on social studies education and what
global citizenship education
means from a Turkish perspective.
In 2013, program participant Carl Andersen developed a curriculum on
global citizenship for his eighth grade language arts class, using the work of ART21 featured - artists to explore what it
means to be a responsible
global citizen, and to exist responsibly in terms of self, community, and society.