Global Citizenship Education in Post-Secondary Institutions: Theories, Practices, Policies- Foreword by Indira V. Samarasekera (Complicated Conversation) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1433111144 ISBN 13: 9781433111143

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Lynette Shultz is Associate Professor and Co-director of the Center for Global Citizenship Education and Research (CGCER) at the University of Alberta. Her particular areas of work include international perspectives on educational policy, children’s rights, citizenship education and organizing for change.
Ali A. Abdi is Professor of Education and Co-director of the CGCER at the University of Alberta. His areas of research include comparative and international education; globalization, citizenship and human rights education; social foundations of education; cultural studies in education; and colonial and postcolonial studies in education.
George H. Richardson is Associate Professor and Associate Dean (International) in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. His research interests include the role of education in national identity formation, citizenship education, and action research.

Review:

«Global citizenship has become a buzzword in many institutions of higher education and yet, ironically, the concept is rarely subject to the rigours of scholarship one expects to find in the academy. This timely and important collection asks critical questions about what kinds of global citizenship post-secondary institutions can, and should, develop – and to what degree these efforts contribute to a more just, equitable, and non-violent world. Such questions are key to determining the role and purpose of higher education in shaping the future.» (Graham Pike, Dean of International Education, Vancouver Island University)

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1433111144
• ISBN 13: 9781433111143
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 282
• Editor: Shultz Lynette, Abdi Ali A., Richardson George H.