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Global Citizenship Education: Philosophy, Theory and Pedagogy (Contexts of Education) by Michael A. Peters; Alan Britton; Harry Blee is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 prospe

Author

Michael A. Peters; Alan Britton; Harry Blee

Publisher

BRILL; Sense Publishers

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9789087903732

Subjects

Philosophy, Education