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In 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 an essentially important way of learning in a globalized world.
List of contents
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 TarozziChapter 8: Global Citizenship Education and Global Peace.
Vive la liberteì!Chapter 9: Adult Learning and Global Citizenship Education
with Jason DorioChapter 10: Global Citizenship Education: A New Global Social Movement?
Chapter 11: Implementing Global Citizenship Education: Challenges
About the author
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.
Summary
In 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 an essentially important way of learning in a globalized world.
