Cultivating global citizens: planting new seeds or pruning the perennials? Looking for the citizen-subject in global citizenship education theory

• Published in: Globalisation, societies and education Vol. 9; no. 3-4; pp. 427 - 442
• Main Author: Pashby, Karen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 01.09.2011; Routledge
• Subjects: Canada; Citizens; Citizenship; Citizenship Education; Citizenship Responsibility; Civic education; Cultural Pluralism; Democracy; democratic schooling; Educational Philosophy; English; Europe; Foreign Countries; Global Approach; global citizenship education; Global Education; intercultural understandings; Justice; Obligation; Pedagogy; philosophy of education; Political Attitudes; Political integration; Political socialization; Power; Power Structure; Responsibility; Schooling; Social Justice; Students; Teaching Methods; Theory of education; U.S.A; United Kingdom; United States; United States of America; Canada; United States; United Kingdom
• ISSN: 1476-7724; 1476-7732
• DOI: 10.1080/14767724.2011.605326

This paper engages with a selection of scholarly writing in English that was published in the last decade and written from particular liberal democratic contexts (predominantly the UK, the USA, and Canada). The literature diagnoses the need for a more complex theory of citizenship education and theo...