ERIC Number: EJ1444621
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Nov
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-1477-9714
EISSN: EISSN-1479-7194
African Values as Natural Drivers of Global Citizenship
Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, v30 n2 p285-301 2024
This article discusses the place of the concept of global citizenship within the context of African values. It holds that if the modern concept of global citizenship education as espoused by UNESCO and other global organisations is relatively recent, the same concept is ancient within the context of sub-Saharan Africa and it is subsumed within African values. The article argues that the search for a universal theory of global citizenship education is yet to yield any positive result and it critiques the three methodologies so far adopted in promoting global citizenship education across the world. The article concludes that whilst modern global citizenship education is tied to the material world and the benefits derivable therefrom, the concept of global citizenship education advanced by at least five African values is rooted in the depth of humanity from where it rises to smoothen human relations and sooth the pains caused by human avarice.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values, African Culture, Global Approach, Cultural Context, Citizenship Education, Citizenship, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Humanism, Conservation (Environment), Stranger Reactions, Geographic Regions, Evolution
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Africa
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