Discourses of Globalisation, Active Citizenship and Education

This book analyses dominant discourses of globalisation, and citizenship in schools. Diverse worldviews and ideologies construct different meanings for globalization, citizenship, and education, resulting in conceptual debates, tensions, competing discourses, and practical challenges for scholars and educators, navigating complex and contested terrain. The chapters in this volume advance further the discussions on the phenomenon of globalisation, and how it impacts on the nature of active citizenship education in schools around the world. In order to help students recognize that they are inherently global citizens, capable of understanding that local actions are globally interdependent, and that communities can be seen as temporal social networks within and beyond physical space, and action for global citizenship in school. The book, by building on intercultural dialogue and active citizenship education in schools, will promote critical appraisal of various views of the world, andoffers different ways to reconstruct and re-imagine social reality.

Anatoli Rapoport is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Purdue University College of Education. His research interests include citizenship education, international and global education, comparative education, and application of constructivist theory in education. He is past chair of the Citizenship and Democratic Education SIG at Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Board member of National Council for the Social Studies International Assembly, and editor of Journal of International Social Studies. He is recipient of the Curriculum and Instruction Discovery Award and Outstanding Leadership in Globalization Award. He holds honorary doctorate (Honoris Causa) from Academy of Science of Moldova. At Purdue, Dr. Rapoport teaches social studies methods courses and graduate seminars on international and comparative education. He was guest editor of special issues of Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education (with Serhiy Kovalchuk); Education, Citizenship and SocialJustice (with Miri Yemini), and Research in Social Sciences and Technology. He is the author of four books: Fields Unknown (2007), Civic Education in Contemporary Global Society (with Andrey Borshevsky -2009), Competing Frameworks: Global and National in Citizenship Education (2018), and Democratic Citizenship in Non-Western Contexts (with Serhiy Kovalchuk – 2019).