Tag: GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

Education for global citizenship is a framework to equip learners for critical and active engagement with the challenges and opportunities of life in a fast-changing and interdependent world. It is transformative, developing the knowledge and understanding, skills, values and attitudes that learners need both to participate fully in a globalised society and economy, and to secure a more just, secure and sustainable world than the one they have inherited UGM believes that young people’s learning, thinking and actions – both now and in their adult lives – are integral to the achievement of that more just, secure and sustainable global future. Therefore, alongside a rigorous development of global understanding and multiple perspectives, an education for global citizenship should also include opportunities for young people to develop their skills as agents of change and to reflect critically on this role. Around the world there is a growing recognition of the fundamental importance of educating for global citizenship because: All learners need a safe space in which to explore complex and controversial global issues they encounter...