1st Edition

Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Critical Global Citizenship Education

By Carlos Alberto Torres Copyright 2017
188 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

188 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

188 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In the first volume in the Critical Global Citizenship Education series, Torres combines theoretical and empirical research to present an original perspective on global citizenship education as a vitally important way of learning in a globalized world. In examining the requirements for effective global citizenship education and education reform, he investigates pathways to citizenship-building... Read more

Chapter 1: The Realpolitik of Global Citizenship Education

Chapter 2: Why Global Citizenship? An Intervention in Search of a Theory Chapter 3: Global Citizenship Education: Competitiveness versus Solidarity?

Liminal: Education and citizenship

Chapter 4: Global Citizenship Education Confronting Hyper-Globalists, Skeptics and Transformationists Agendas

Chapter 5: Global Citizenship Education and the role of Universities. Seven iconoclastic thesis about Public Universities and the neoliberal common sense

Chapter 6: Global Citizenship and Global Universities: The Age of Global Interdependence and Cosmopolitanism

Chapter 7: Multiculturalism in the World System: Towards a Social Justice Model of Multicultural Education with Massimiliano Tarozzi

Chapter 8: Global Citizenship Education and Global Peace. Vive la liberteì!

Chapter 9: Adult Learning and Global Citizenship Education with Jason Dorio

Chapter 10: Global Citizenship Education: A New Global Social Movement?

Chapter 11: Implementing Global Citizenship Education: Challenges

Biography

Carlos Alberto Torres is Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA, UNESCO Chair in Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education, and Director of the Paulo Freire Institute.