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Mainstreaming and Advancing Global Citizenship Education

February 2022

The Mainstreaming and Advancing Global Citizenship Education (GCED) issue of the .ed Magazine is carefully curated to empower educational leaders to deepen their understanding of GCED. This edition unpacks GCED perspectives, strategies, challenges, approaches, models, and ideas for educators to deliver more impactful and effective GCED within and beyond the classrooms.

The .ed Magazine is an incisive, and thought-provoking issue-based quarterly digital publication — for transformative global educators — focussed on transforming education for human flourishing. The .ed Magazine brings insightful, articulate, well-researched, and unputdownable articles from leading global experts and practitioners to catalyze efforts of educators, school leaders, and institutions to unleash the potential of transformative education.

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Editor's Note

How Can We Mainstream and Advance Global Citizenship Education in Formal Education Systems?

For any school or university to realize the transformative potential of GCED to the fullest, one has to move beyond looking at the implementation of GCED as yet another subject in the curricular framework but has to adopt an integrated institution-wide contextual approach that involves all stakeholders including the wider community.

Guest Editorial

Cover Story

Global Citizenship Education and Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of Hope

This article looks specifically at how global citizenship education can contribute to providing learners with a vision and purpose to address the current global challenges. It suggests that one way of doing this is to look to the ideas of Paulo Freire and his vision of a pedagogy of hope.

High Impact Strategies to Mainstream Global Citizenship Education in Teacher Education

The competencies and values fostered in the process of GCED are critical for the economic productivity and prosperity of individuals and contribute to inclusion, peace, equity, and sustainability in communities and societies.

Global Citizenship as Personal Aspiration: Inspiring Students to Seek the Meaning of Global Citizenship in Their Lives

Once inspired to seek the meaning of global citizenship as a personal aspiration, it is not a stretch for young persons to feel a sense of responsibility for their interconnected planet and take whatever action they can to protect and sustain it.

Featured Articles

How Can Global Citizenship Education Foster Creativity?

Being a citizen means being a citizen of somewhere and, indeed, since its historical emergence, citizenship has always been ‘local’ or, better said, regional and then national. And yet, the interconnected world of today and the interlinked nature of its problems consistently challenge national boundaries and nationalistic sentiments.

Fostering a Global Citizenship Education that Addresses ‘Ecological Footprint’ and ‘Ecological Handprint’

The phenomena of childlessness and treelessness are two examples that highlight the requirement for global citizenship education to question our existing mindsets and to provide alternative ways of thinking and structured opportunities for alternative practices.

On the Development of Global Citizenship: Tools, Experiences, Goals, and Reflection

Through these efforts, we have struck gold. Not as much in the problematizing, reifying, and determining of the pedagogical conditions conducive to global citizenship development, but actually in the citizen-students who seem to understand what it means to be a global citizen.

Opinion

Understanding the Attitudes of Columbia’s Educators towards Fostering Global Citizenship Education

In Bogotá-Colombia, an investigation was developed that addresses Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and complex thinking as a proposal to strengthen teacher training.

‘Education for Homeland Earth’ Framework to Mainstream Global Citizenship Education – The Austrian Experience

Education for Homeland Earth is a formula for a transformative, postcolonial, socially critical, ecologically enlightened Global Citizenship Education (GCED). The formula comes from the title of a book written by the French philosopher Edgar Morin and Anne Brigitte Kern in the 1990s.

Pathways to Mainstream and Advance the Concept of Global Citizenship Education in the Arab World

The importance of this study is manifested by events that have highlighted deteriorating human conditions, particularly in what we are witnessing in third world countries including the Arab world, which is facing a lot of setbacks at several levels.

Youth Voice

Research

Global Champions

Transformative Pedagogy

Anchoring the Pillars of Sustainability Education in Critical Cosmopolitan Theory to Advance Global Citizenship Education

The purpose of our article is to report on practices to advance global citizenship through Education for Sustainable Development. Many educators find it difficult to find time to teach sustainability topics in the wake of mandated curriculums, standardized testing, and constant pivots in instructional time due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Professional Development

Advancing Global Citizenship Education and Sustainable Development Goals through a TEDx Event: Lessons from University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The purpose of our article is to showcase a practice for fostering global citizenship education through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Specifically, we highlight ways to help prepare undergraduate students in higher education for global citizenship through hybrid spaces of learning.

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Letter to the editor

This issue of the .ed Magazine is a digital/online quarterly issue-based publication in English by the Global Citizenship Foundation. You may reach the publisher by mail via Global Citizenship Foundation, 139, Sector-13, Sonipat, Haryana, India 131001