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Decolonizing Global Citizenship Education by Ali A. Abdi, Lynette Shultz, Thashika Pillay (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The ideas for this reader came out of a conference organized through the Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research (CGCER) at the University of Alberta in 2013. With the high expansion of global citizenship education scholarship in the past 15 or so years, and with most of this scholarship produced in the west and mostly focused on the citizenship lives of people in the so-called developing world, or selectively attempting to explain the contexts of marginalized populations in the west, the need for multidirectional and decolonizing knowledge and research perspectives should be clear. Indeed, the discursive as well as the practical constructions of current global citizenship education research cannot fulfill the general promise of learning and teaching programs as social development platforms unless the voices of all concerned are heard and validated. With these realities, this reader is topically comprehensive and timely, and should constitute an important intervention in our efforts to create and sustain more inclusive and liberating platforms of knowledge and learning. "This collection of cutting-edge theoretical contributions examines citizenship and neo-liberal glob

Who reads Decolonizing Global Citizenship Education?

Author

Ali A. Abdi, Lynette Shultz, Thashika Pillay (eds.)

Publisher

SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9789463002776

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Philosophy, Political Science