Global Citizenship Education in Post-Secondary Institutions

Theories, Practices, Policies- Foreword by Indira V. Samarasekera

Ali A. Abdi, George H. Richardson, Lynette Shultz

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9781433111136
  9781433111143
• eBook ISBN:
  9781453901366
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Adult Education

Drawing on critical pedagogy, post-colonial analysis, hermeneutic interpretation, and reconceptualist curriculum frameworks, the twenty chapters in this edited collection address, from interrelated perspectives, a gap in the scholarly literature on the theory, practice, and policy of global citizenship and global citizenship education. The book provides readers with analyses and interpretations of the existing state of global citizenship education in post-secondary institutions, and stimulates discussion about the field at a time when there is an intense debate about the current drive to «internationalize» tertiary education and the role global citizenship education should play in that process. International and interdisciplinary in its examination of post-secondary global citizenship education, the book will be useful in courses that focus on policy formation, curriculum development and theorizing in the field.

Table of contents

• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Foreword Indira V. Samarasekera vii
• Acknowledgments viii
• 1. Global Citizenship Education and the Role of the Academy: A Critical Introduction Lynette Shultz, Ali A. Abdi, George H. Richardson 1
• THEORIES AND CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF GCE
• 2. Engaging the Multiple Discourses of Global Citizenship Education within a Canadian University: Deliberation, Contestation, and Social Justice Possibilities Lynette Shultz 13
• 3. De-Monoculturalizing Global Citizenship Education: The Need for Multicentric Intentions and Practices Ali A. Abdi 25
• 4. Toward Global Citizenship: Implications for Internationalization of the Curriculum in Canadian Higher Education Shibao Guo, Mackie Chase 40
• 5. The Global Community: Linked by Living on One Planet Margaret-Ann Armour 53
• 6. Bridging (Representations of) the “Global Present” with the Life-World of the Classroom: Researching toward “Learning to Teach” Global Citizenship Education Paul Tarc 64
• 7. Rethinking Citizenship Education in Higher Education Institutions through the Lens of Critical Pedagogy: Educating the Local and Global Emancipated Citizen Ranilce Guimaraes-Iosif 76
• CURRICULUM ISSUES AND PROGRAMS
• 8. “It’s Overwhelming and Hard to Articulate”: Analyzing Student Narratives of an International Global Citizenship Education Field Experience George Richardson, Lucy De Fabrizio, Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh 95
• 9. Global Citizenship and the Environment: Embracing Life in All Its Forms Naomi Krogman, Lee Foote 108
• 10. Parallaxes and Paradoxes of Global Citizenship: Critical Reflections and Possibilities of Praxis in/through an International Online Course Dalene Swanson 120
• 11. The Question of the “Other” in Global Citizenship Education: A Postcolonial Analysis of Telling Case Studies in England Vanessa Andreotti 140
• 12. An Evaluative Case Study of the UNICEF Global Education Projectin Iran, 2000–2003 Mehdi Mahdavinia 158
• 13. Teaching Literature in English for Brazilian Undergraduate Students: Challenges and Possibilities Roberto Bezerra da Silva 173
• 14. Negotiating the Complexity Within: Tensions, Issues and Possibilities of Educating for Global Citizenship Abroad Shelane Jorgenson 184
• 15. The Place of Religion in a Curriculum for Global Citizenship Richard Rymarz 197
• 16. The Question of Global Citizenship in Teacher Education Khalida Tanvir Syed 208
• POLICY ISSUES AND RESPONSES
• 17. Higher Education Consortia as Frameworks for Global Citizenship: Post-secondary Institutions as Corporate Global Citizens in a Globalized World Rhonda Friesen 221
• 18. African Higher Education and Global Citizenship Education: Some Perspectives from Zimbabwe Michael Kariwo 236
• 19. Global Education in Higher Education Institutions in Ireland, the United Kingdom and Canada: Complementarity and Conflict in the Global University Nadya Weber 249
• 20. Policy Implications for Global Citizenship Education in Higher Education in an Age of Neo-liberalism Evelyn Hamdon, Shelane Jorgenson 260
• List of Contributors 273
• Index 277