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Citizenship Education
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Contents
PART I
Critical Views in Global Citizenship Education:
Critical Pedagogy, Otherwise/Postcoloniality,
Conviviality, and Planetary Citizenship 1
PART III
Flourishing, Awareness, Responsibility, Participation,
and Humanism as the Underpinning for Global
Citizenship Education 135
Index 190
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
2.1 In Earth’s CARE Global Justice Framework 16
2.2 and 2.3 The House Modernity Built and Its Hidden Costs 24
7.1 A Global Social Justice Framework 90
13.1 Principles of Metacritical Global Citizenship Education 186
Tables
I.1 Example of Interview Questions xxi
2.1 Mainstream Global Citizenship/Global Citizenship
Otherwise23
2.2 Modern Promises and the Colonial Processes
That Subsidize Them 25
2.3 LAPSED Approaches to Social Justice and Change 26
Acknowledgments
The idea for this book came from my dialogues on Global Citizenship
Education (GCE) with Carlos Alberto Torres who I would like to par-
ticularly thank for inspiring my work. I would also like to thank all the
outstanding scholars from all over the world for their contributions and
commitment to support this book, which I am hopeful will make an
important contribution to research, teaching, and learning in GCE and
demonstrate its value toward more just societies.
List of Contributors
Books speak to us
As the editor of this book indicated, “The tone of the interviews – which
inevitably takes the shape of conversations on GCE – connects the nar-
rative of senior educators and makes the book distinctive in three differ-
ent ways. Firstly, while some publications have had elements focusing on
critically analyzing GCE, it is unusual for senior educators’ “voices” who
actually teach GCE to be represented within a book, and it is not common
for specific localized theory and pedagogy regarding GCE to be closely
examined in a form of conversation. Secondly, this work is unique as a sin-
gle author publication that focuses on critically analyzing GCE in terms
of conversation with those educators who have considerable experience
in the field. Thirdly, the intention of this book is to offer a “roadmap”
regarding GCE theoretical approaches and teaching experience.”
We may have underestimated the value of dialogues in academy.
Philosopher of education, Nicholas Burbules highlighted the different
meanings of dialogue which should be part and parcel of our pedagogy,
teaching, and research. Burbules argues that dialogue has many mean-
ings. It could be defined as inquiry, as conversation, as debate, as a game,
as instruction, and as a type of interaction which, in his opinion, can be
also constructed as a pedagogical communicative relation.6 In the same
vein, I have argued in one of my books that dialogue is a method and
experience of learning and struggle.7
Dialogue has been defined as a particular kind of communica-
tive relation, a conversational interaction directed, and intentionally
toward teaching and learning. Dialogue is different from storytelling,
which entertains and may eventually educate. From critical perspec-
tives, through dialogue and narrative, critical experiences can be con-
structed as theories that may speak of truth and sincere caring, ever
more important in this time and age of post-truth dishevelment. Alas,
dialogues also speak about the struggles, dreams, and hopes of the par-
ticipants.8 Dialogues can empower but also disempower. Dialogues that
empower are engaging, imaginative, playful. Engaging dialogue allows
oral stories to come alive, vignettes to be educational, and they become
a tool of enlightenment and empowerment as well as a source of recon-
structed collective histories embedded in individual stories. For instance,
dialogues about peace work, drawing particularly from oral stories of
women peace activists, offer a unique perspective of social struggles in
the United States.9
Dialogues allow for voices to emerge and new narratives to develop
without the restriction of the grammar and syntax of written prose.
The outcomes of spontaneous or planned dialogues do not have to
be judged necessarily in terms of the context of discovery or scientific
xvi Foreword
validation. A good dialogue unleashes sources of creativity, even ena-
bling the craft of fiction, the art of poetry, and the appraisal of the syn-
ergism between theory and practice to emerge in a vivid, even exuberant
form, going beyond idiosyncrasies and viewpoints.10
Dialogues are constructive but they are also disruptive because they
can bring out some of our own contradictions as individuals and/or
scholars. They can question forms of interpretation and style of analysis
that, at least in academia, are considered well established. Dialogues
as experimental, disruptional or simply innovative writing demonstrate
how the boundaries between “literature” and other forms of cultural
writing “have become hopelessly blurred”.11
These dialogues are about GCE as it is taught in universities. GCE
should be part of an educational policy that is technically competent,
ethically sound, and politically feasible, and should find a special place
in our universities’ curricula. There is no question that in the United
States, we do need a reasonable and honest government administration
to create these conditions because Trump’s administration was nothing
of that sort. Even in the shadow of an authoritarian populist regime
in the United States, many scholars in the US universities continue our
commitment to social justice education.
Dialogues on Global Citizenship Education.
Notes
1 See Joshua Kaplan. (1961). Political theory: The classic texts and their con-
tinuing relevance. The Modern Scholar (14 lectures in the series; lecture
#7/disc 4), 2005. Other relevant sources are J. R. Hale, The Literary Works
of Machiavelli. Oxford University Press, 139 and https://www.goodreads.
com/quotes/66377-when-evening-comes-i-return-home-and-go-into-my/
2 (2017). For an additional perspective on the topic, see Torres, Carlos
Alberto. Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Critical Global Citi-
zenship Education. New York and London: Routledge, 109–128.
3 Burawoy, Michael. (2005). For public sociology (PDF). American Socio-
logical Review. 70:4–28. doi: 10.1177/000312240507000102. Retrieved
September 13, 2020.
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4 See C.A. Torres & E. Bosio. (2020). Continuing our dialogues, we had pub-
lished two of them in 2020. Global Citizenship Education at the crossroads:
Globalization, global commons, common good and critical consciousness
prospects. Comparative Journal of Curriculum, Learning, and Assess-
ment. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11125-019-09458-w
Torres, C., & Bosio, E. (2020). Critical Reflections on the Notion of
Global Citizenship Education. A dialogue with Carlos Alberto Torres in
relation to higher education in the United States. Encyclopaideia, 24(56),
107–117. doi: https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1825-8670/10742
5 Nino, Carlos A. (1996). The Constitution of Deliberative Democracy.
New Haven, Yale University Press, 101.
6 Burbules, N. C. (1993). Dialogue in Teaching: Theory and Practice. New
York and London: Teacher College Press.
7 (1998). I will reprise briefly herein some of the analyses I did in one of my
favorite books published in 1998 that sought to understand the beginnings
of the critical studies in education in the United States. See Carlos Alberto
Torres, Editor. Education, Power and Personal Biographies. Dialogues
with Critical Educators. New York and London: Routledge.
8 Neil Noddings. (1991). Stories in dialogue: Caring and interpersonal
reasoning. In C. Witherell and Neil Noddings (Eds.), Stories Life Tell.
Narrative and Dialogues in Education. 157–170. New York and London:
Teachers College Press.
9 Judith Porter Adams. (1991). Peacework. Oral Histories of Women Peace
Activists. Boston: Twayne.
10 Rita Guibert. (1973). Seven Voices, Seven Latin American Writers Talk
with Rita Guibert. New York, Alfred A. Knoft.
11 David William Foster. (1985). Alternative Voices in the Contemporary
Latin America Narrative. Columbia: University of Missoury Press, 148.
12 https://en.unesco.org/themes/gced
13 Torres, Carlos Alberto. (2017). Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of
Critical Global Citizenship Education. New York and London: Routledge.
14 A concern is that growing poverty and inequality exclude large segments
of individuals from active citizenship. Both global and national citizenship
depend on material basics and civic virtues.
15 Problems in the global system that undermine peace and prosperity include
but cannot be restricted to: (1) unabated poverty; (2) growing inequality;
(3) neoliberal globalization that has weakened the systems of organized
solidarity of the democratic nation-state; (4) banking education with
authoritarian and inadequate curriculum in elementary, secondary, and
higher education; and (5) destruction of the planet’s eco-system.
16 Desjardins, Richard, Torres, Carlos Alberto, & Susan Wiksten. Social
Contract Pedagogy: A Dialogical and Deliberative Model for Global Citi-
zenship Education. Background paper for the UNESCO’s Futures of Edu-
cation Commission. Los Angeles: Unpublished.
17 UNESCO. (2020). “What Is Global Citizenship Education?” Retrieved
(https://en.unesco.org/themes/gced/definition).
18 Beck, Ulrich. (2006). Cosmopolitan Vision. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
19 Desjardins, Richard, Torres, Carlos Alberto, & Susan Wiksten. (1998).
Op. Cit, and Carlos Alberto Torres, Democracy, Education, and Mul-
ticulturalism. Dilemmas of Citizenship in the Global World. Lanham:
Maryland.
Introduction
Conversations With Educators
on Global Citizenship Education:
In the Pursuit of Social Justice
Emiliano Bosio
Rationales:
• What is your understanding of “educating for global citizenship”?
• How your academic as well as life “journey” has shaped this understanding?
• What are three key elements of educating for global citizenship in higher
education in your opinion?
Operations:
• How can education for global citizenship be made suitable for or attractive
to university students studying in your country?
• Why is or is not education for global citizenship necessary at universities in
your country?
Positions:
• What are the reasons behind positive and negative attitudes of educators
toward global citizenship at universities in your country?
Learning Objectives/Curriculum:
• What competences including knowledge, skills, attitudes/values, and
experiences are university students in your country expected to acquire in
order to become “global citizens” or “global graduates”?
• In your opinion, educating for global citizenship at universities is more
about knowledge, skills, and attitudes/value or some combination of all
three?
• How can university students’ achievements of these competences be
identified?
• What themes should a curriculum for global citizenship include in your
opinion in order to “fit” universities in your country?
of the fact that they were in an “interview situation” and to allow them
to offer a full elaboration of their thinking. A number of questions were
subject to discussion, where appropriate, that had a relationship to the
wider purpose of the book (see Table I.1).
Rationales. To begin with, the first set of questions focused on the
rationales behind the ways in which educators understood GCE.
Specifically, the focus was on eliciting educators’ conceptions of GCE as
informed by a variety of perspectives centered on both their academic
and life experiences. These questions examine both internal influences,
such as personal philosophy and educational ideology, and external
influences. For example, societal expectations, state policy, and specific
academic environments. The examination also looked at the way the
educators’ conceptions of GCE could be shaped by these elements.
Operations. Another set of questions was created to reveal the prac-
tical ways in which educators set up GCE courses to make them useful
and/or interesting to their students. I also tried to elicit why different
educators may have positive or negative attitudes to GCE, remembering
xxii Introduction
the fact that although there is much debate around GCE, with certain
notable exceptions, it is not common to find it holistically implemented
in a cross-disciplinary manner within universities.
Positions. The conclusion chapter third set of questions was created to
investigate the development of GCE within higher education institutions
with reference to the educators’ perspectives. This set of questions was
designed to identify the ways in which educators interpreted and imple-
mented GCE and how enthusiastic they were about the concepts and
objectives of their institutions.
Learning objectives/curriculum. The final set of questions was designed
as part of the investigation into the attributes graduates attained from their
GCE. This set of questions intended to investigate how educators under-
stand learning objectives (which include skills, values, and knowledge) and
citizenship in the context of growing neoliberal globalization. Specifically,
how educators felt the GCE curriculum should incorporate cognitive targets.
Altogether, the rich perspectives offered by the educators via conversa-
tions on GCE in this book present a distinctive description of the ways in
which contemporary GCE is conceptualized and taught. The educators’
perspectives enabled me to conceptualize a proposal for a GCE pedagog-
ical framework aimed at fostering students’ conscientization and social
justice rooted in critical pedagogy — the metacritical GCE — which I
describe in the concluding chapter of this book.
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Part I
1.1 Introduction
We live in problematic times. This is especially true for critical pedagogues
who are faced with the task of advancing global citizenship education
(GCE) in a time of rising right-wing populist governments, growing rac-
ism, and police brutality tragically exemplified by the killing of George
Floyd in the United States. For the last 40 years, neoliberalism has waged
a significant attack on the structure and role of public education. Under
such circumstances, social bonds are being loosened, public goods are
under siege and matters of collective responsibility are under attack by the
market-driven forces of marketization and selfish individualism (Bosio &
Torres, 2019; Giroux, 2020). Given the ongoing attack on democracy, the
social contact and the welfare state, critical pedagogy can play an impor-
tant role in reclaiming the public good and producing civic education,
literacy, and GCE (Bosio, 2017; Bosio, 2019; Torres & Bosio, 2020a/b).
With the subsequent dialogue, we contemplate how GCE can progress
and connect matters of theory and critique to pedagogical practices
informed by critical pedagogy by making the most of civic valor as an
approach to political challenges, allowing hope and politics to occupy
a space defined by morals, values, and public actions that tackle the
motion of everyday experience and the woes of social ills with the might
of individual and collective opposition. We believe that drawing upon
this philosophy can relaunch critical pedagogy and GCE as one uni-
fied force. This is a ‘re/vitalized’ pedagogical approach oriented towards
social justice which aims to resist the oppressive neoliberalism that is
taking over higher education environments (Bosio, 2020; Giroux, 2020).
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