Global Citizenship Education in Teacher Education Theoretical and Practical Issues Critical Global Citizenship Education Series

Global Citizenship Education and Teacher Education brings together scholars and practitioners from all continents to explore the role of teacher education in formulating a practice of citizenship that has a global scope and is guided by critical and emancipatory approaches.

By considering educational responses to global challenges ?such as global warming, rising levels of inequalities, intensification of armed conflicts, growing streams of international migration, and the impact of neoliberal policies?this book provides valuable analyses for researchers, teacher educators, and educators. The volume examines historical and conceptual issues relating to the incorporation of global citizenship education in teacher education, and presents examples from across the world that showcase main trends in research and practice from across the world.

This book is of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, and libraries in the fields of citizenship education, global education, teacher education, international and comparative education, and education policy and politics.

Foreword

Carlos A. Torres

Introduction

Daniel Schugurensky and Charl Wolhuter

Chapter 1

Different views on global citizenship education: Making global citizenship education more critical, political and justice-oriented

Wiel Veugelers

Chapter 2

Critical global citizenship education in Canada, England, and the United States: Interrogating (in)justice and self-reflexivity in teacher education programs

Jennifer K. Bergen, Sharon A. Cook and Lorna McLean

Chapter 3

The struggle for "thick" or Transformative Citizenship. Educators’ views on Democracy & Citizenship: A Global Perspective

David Zyngier

Chapter 4

Citizenship Education Beyond the Nation State: Implications for Teacher Education

Seungho Moon and Charles Tocci

Chapter 5

Global citizenship education in teacher education: Is there any alternative beyond redemptive dreams and nightmarish germs?

Gustavo Fischman and Marta Estellés Frade

Chapter 6

UNESCO ASPnet Schools, Global Citizenship Education, and Conviviality as a Tool to Live Together on a Shared Planet

Lynette Shultz and Maren Elfert

Chapter 7

Global Citizenship Education and Teacher Education in Africa

Samson Maekele Tsegay, Mcjerry Atta Bekoe and Mulugeta Zemuy Zegergish

Chapter 8

Global Citizenship Education in East, South and Southeast Asia

Michael Goh and Megan Deutschman

Chapter 9

Global Citizenship Education in Teacher Education in Asia: A Case Study from Vietnam

Hoa Truong-White and Thi Nhat Ho

Chapter 10

Global Citizenship Education and Teacher Education in Spain and Portugal

Alfredo Gomes Dias, Ernesto Gómez, Antoni Santisteban and Joan Pagès

Chapter 11

Exploring global citizenship in teacher education across Europe: A comparative analysis of Austria, Czech Republic, Ireland and Italy

Massimiliano Tarozzi

Chapter 12

Global Citizenship Education in Teacher Education in Canada and the US: Trends, Barriers, and Possibilities

Karen Pashby and Laura Engel

Chapter 13

Teacher Education and Global Citizenship Education in Latin America: The cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia

Gustavo González Valencia, Miguel Angel Jara, Sixtina Pinochet Pinochet, Adriana da Silva Santiago and Joan Pagès Blanch

Chapter 14

Global Citizenship Education and Teacher Education in Oceania

Niranjan Casinader

Daniel Schugurensky is Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry and Director of the Social Pedagogy Program at Arizona State University, USA.

Charl Wolhuter is Comparative and International Education Professor at North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa.