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:

  1. How can acts of global citizenship result in environmental sustainability?
  2. How big a factor is global citizenship in attaining global sustainability?

Readings and Content 

  1. Environmental Justice
  1. Conceptualizing Citizenship

Different Meanings

Contested Meanings

3.  Citizenship Competences  

The Characteristics of a Good Citizen

A Variety of Opinions and Perspectives

4. Global Citizenship

Definitions in Different Countries

How is global citizenship embedded into the civic fabric of different countries? 

    • 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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