Week 10: Global Citizenship and Environmental Sustainability
Introduction
This class aims to connect different interpretations of global citizenship with environmental sustainability. Citizenship competencies will be framed in the context of different locations from around the world, based on the opinions of its citizens.
This Week, You Will Be Expected to:
- Add 5-10 terms to your glossary
- Form opinions about the wide spectrum of expected and acceptable forms of global citizenship across the world
- See the relevance of enhancing their citizenship competences
- Identify ways in which global citizenship can affect environmental sustainability
Questions to Consider Throughout this Week:
- How can acts of global citizenship result in environmental sustainability?
- How big a factor is global citizenship in attaining global sustainability?
Readings and Content
- Environmental Justice
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- A Quick Review from Week 4: Social and Environmental Justice
- Conceptualizing Citizenship
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- Read Chapter 1. Bookmark this resource for future use: Conceptualizing Environmental Citizenship for 21st Century Education
- Read Chapter 1. Bookmark this resource for future use: Latta, A., & Wittman, H. (Eds.). (2012). Environment and citizenship in Latin America: Natures, subjects and struggles (Vol. 101). Berghahn Books.
Different Meanings
Contested Meanings
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- Study Abroad and the Easy Promise of Global Citizenship: Student Conceptions of a Contested Notion
- Roman, L. G. (2003). Education and the contested meanings of ‘global citizenship’. Journal of educational change, 4(3), 269-293.
3. Citizenship Competences
The Characteristics of a Good Citizen
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- What is a “Good Citizen?” A Systematic Literature Review
- A survey from the U.S.: Pew Research Center. (2018). The responsibilities of citizenship. In The Public, The Political System and American Democracy, pp. 93-99.
A Variety of Opinions and Perspectives
4. Global Citizenship
Definitions in Different Countries
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- How PETA Won its Messy Fight and Took a Seat at the Table
- The “Green Noble Prize”
- The Global Citizens’ Initiative
- Chiong, C., & Gopinathan, S. (2020). “Being rooted, living global”: Citizenship and education in the Singapore city-state. In A. Peterson, G. Stahl, & H. Soong (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of citizenship and education (pp. 549-566). Palgrave Macmillan.
How is global citizenship embedded into the civic fabric of different countries?
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- Read 3 articles from different parts of the globe: Global Citizenship Education: Critical and International Perspectives
- Pathak-Shelat, M. (2018). Social media and youth: Implications for global citizenship education. In I. Davies, L. C. Ho, D. Kiwan, C. L. Peck, A. Peterson, ,E. Sant, & Y. Waghid, (Eds.) The Palgrave handbook of global citizenship and education (pp. 539-555). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Ashraf, M. A., Tsegay, S. M., & Ning, J. (2021). Teaching Global Citizenship in a Muslim-Majority Country: Perspectives of Teachers from the Religious, National, and International Education Sectors in Pakistan. Religions, 12(5), 348.
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