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INTRODUCTION
“Civics” often refers to the familiar constellation of rights and responsibilities emanating from citizenship in a nation-state. But what about global civics? Would this be feasible—or even desirable? There are several plausible objections to the concept of global civics. One can argue that allowing for even a modest level of responsibility toward all the world’s 6.7 billion people is so overwhelming that it is a nonstarter. Read more
Boix Mansilla, Veronica, Educating for global competence: bridging the “relevance gap” in contemporary education. Salzburg Global Seminar Paper written for Session 486, Optimizing Talent: Closing Education and Social Mobility Gaps Worldwide, December 2011
Towards a Socially Responsible University: Balancing the Global with the Local. Global University Network for Innovation (GUNI), Higher Education in the World 6, March 2017
As the world in which we live has become increasingly complex and the challenges we face become more interconnected, so has the need for harnessing collective responses to complex solutions – solutions that affect and connect us individually, nationally, regionally and globally. The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted at the United Nations in New York in 2015 clearly set out an agenda to address these complexities. Read more
Green, Madeleine, Global Citizenship: What Are We Talking About and Why Does It Matter? In: NAFSA’s Trends & Insights For International Education Leaders, January, 2012
Patti McGill Peterson, Robin Matross Helms, Challenges and Opportunities for the Global Engagement of Higher Education. American Council on Education/Center for Internationalization and Global Engagement. Paper originally presented at the Beijing Forum conference on November 1, 2013
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Hans de Wit, Betty Leask, Reimagining the Curriculum for the 21st Century. In: Higher Education in the World 6. Towards a Socially Responsible University: Balancing the Global with the Local, 2017
Werner Wintersteiner, Heidi Grobbauer, Gertraud Diendorfer, Susanne Reitmair Juárez, Global Citizenship Education: Citizenship Education for Globalizing Societies. Klagenfurt, Salzburg, Vienna: In Cooperation with the Austrian Commission for UNESCO, 2015
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