Global Citizenship Education in Australian Schools: Leadership, Teacher and Student Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Andrew Peterson

• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 149
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores how Australian secondary schools prepare their students for global citizenship. Globalisation has irrevocably changed modern countries and societies, and the benefits and pressures this brings are being felt as never before. Drawing on empirical data from six Australian secondary schools, the author examines how school leaders and teachers understand global citizenship, how they translate this into their practice, and how students experience and make sense of global citizenship education. In doing so, the book portrays how school leaders, teachers and students grapple with key issues central to global citizenship education, including how they work to mediate some of the tensions involved. While the book concentrates on the Australian context, its findings and analysis have resonance for other countries in which global citizenship education operates as a core goal of education and schooling.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
Global Citizenship Education in Australia: A Brief Context
The Study
Sample and Participants
Ethics and Limitations
Data Analysis
The Structure of this Book
References
Chapter 2: Global Citizenship Education: Meanings and (Mis)Intentions
Introduction
Positioning Global Citizenship Education
Critical Concerns
Teacher and Student Perspectives
The Globally Oriented Citizen
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Understandings of, and Approaches to, Global Citizenship Education
Introduction
School Leader and Teacher Perspectives
Defining and Justifying Global Citizenship
Approaches to Global Citizenship Education
Challenges for Global Citizenship Education
Student Perspectives
Defining and Justifying Global Citizenship
Approaches to Global Citizenship Education
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: Connections and Relationships Within Global Citizenship Education
Introduction
School Leader and Teacher Perspectives
Local, National and Global
Engaging with Difference
Positioning Relations to/with Others
Student Perspectives
Local, National and Global
Engaging with Difference
Positioning Relations to/with Others
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Exploring Current Issues in Global Citizenship Education
Introduction
Senior Leader and Teacher Perspectives
Discussing Current Issues
Religion
Student Perspectives
Current Issues
Religion
Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Revisiting the Globally Oriented Citizen and Priorities for Empirical Research on Global Citizenship Education
Revisiting the Globally Oriented Citizen
Priorities for Empirical Research on Global Citizenship Education
Final Words
References
References
Index