ERIC Number: EJ1348538
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-1476-7724
EISSN: EISSN-1476-7732
Global Citizenship Education as Bounded Self-Formation in Contemporary Higher Education Internationalisation Projects
Spero, Thatcher A.
Globalisation, Societies and Education, v20 n3 p349-364 2022
This paper explores the progressive possibilities of global citizenship education (GCE) and higher education internationalisation in the current milieu that is defined by the interwoven dominance of globalisation, neoliberalism, and English. Since current trends augur shifts in higher education internationalisation growth to nonWestern and nonAnglophone countries, the study focuses on a university in Japan where both GCE and internationalisation are explicitly promoted. Taking an approach based in critical educational studies and guided by scholarship on contemporary citizen formation, it investigates the complex interplay of agency and structure through student self-narratives regarding their own global citizen identity development. The paper argues that over time these students (re)constructed meanings and identities around the concept of global citizenship through myriad pathways in a multidirectional feedback loop that interconnected their self-identity, feelings, aspirations/desires, imaginations, actions, and experiences. After revealing specific factors that limited and facilitated this process of self-formation, and highlighting the paramount role of imagination, the paper concludes by asserting the viability of realizing global community and global citizenship through strategically targeted educational initiatives. This work provides both pragmatic guidance and reasoned optimism for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners who champion the projects of critical global citizenship education and critical higher education internationalisation.
Descriptors: Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Higher Education, Neoliberalism, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Self Concept
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Japan
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