Global Citizenship Education in Practice: an Exploration of Teachers in the United World Colleges
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Increasing globalization calls for new forms to education to respond to emerging concepts of global citizenship. This study explores the question of whether, and if so how, education for the values of global citizenship is possible. Building a definition of global citizenship education from the growing literature, and supplementing these ideas with world society theory and curriculum theory, I examine one example of global citizenship education in practice – the United World Colleges (UWCs). Through document analysis, questionnaires, and interviews, I detail the pedagogical processes by which teachers at the UWCs seek to educate students toward the values of global citizenship, in comparison with theories from the literature. I conclude that the methods used by UWC teachers do indeed work within the theories detailed in the literature, and create a snapshot of global citizenship education in practice.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | August 2003 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Mahlstedt, Andrew |
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Subjects
| Subject | Globalization of education |
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| Subject | United World Colleges |
| Subject | Higher education |
| Subject | Citizenship |
| Subject | Stanford Graduate School of Education International Comparative Education |
| Genre | Thesis |
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/th204gp6905 |
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Graduate School of Education International Comparative Education Master's Monographs
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