Global citizenship education, technology, and being

Bibliographic Data

ID12725791
AuthorsAlexander Gardner-McTaggart (0000-0003-3150-0561, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, corresponding author), Nicola Palmer (0000-0002-8409-6219, University of Southern Queensland)
Year2017
Volume16
Issue2
Pages268-281
Publication date2017-11-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobalisation Societies and Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1476-7724 • E-ISSN: 1476-7732
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14767724.2017.1405342
OpenAlexW2770617337
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited35

Despite the widespread promotion of the global school, it remains unclear as to how citizenship education (global citizenship education, GCE) is developed. Educational bodies such as UNESCO, Oxfam, and the International Baccalaureate are in the full throws of developing models for GCE yet questions remain as to how such a sweeping notion might take effect. Educational frameworks replete with theoretical, political, pedagogical, and methodological conundrums permeate much global education discourse. Modes of GCE thinking range from post-colonial perspective, critical perspectives, postmodernism as well as an oratory utopianism. This article presents an alternate model of GCE promoting both technology and art as complicit in the exacting of a multifaceted GCE. The balancing of art and technology, as demonstrated, presents an ontological stance that acts as a foundation for the Proto-Global Citizen or ‘Weltburger’. This article aims to support educators seeking a further means of conceptualising GCE embodying diversification while embracing a GCE consciousness. Furthermore, the development of GCE through art and technology creates an opportunity for educators to realign disciplinary focus in light of the increasing incentive for schools to ‘go global’

Citizenship · Citizenship education · Discipline · Diversification (marketing strategy · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Global citizenship · Global Citizenship Education · Global education · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Promotion (chess · Social science · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Engineering · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law

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