Global Citizenship Education:: Towards Globalizing Culture of Rights and Responsibilities
- Autores: Sudha Sreenivasa Reddy
- Localización: Global Education Magazine, ISSN-e 2255-033X, Nº. 13, 2015
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
It is heartening to see more and more international debates about the gravity of the issues confronting humanity with unprecedented global social, political and ecological dangers. There are very few places on the planet, which are not in a state of emergency in one way or the other. An Attempt is made here to highlight the urgent need for reimagining global citizenship education and global citizens in order to transcend the present anthropocentric development and reach out to all those unheard voices, whose precarious lives are under the clutches of patriarchal nature of unsustainable development. Understanding the true nature of education, universal values of democracy, rights and responsibilities evolved from rich experience of civilizations, philosophers, thinkers and practitioners is invaluable treasure in redefining culturally sensitive global citizenship education from which emerge conscious ‘global humane beings’. What we need in the world of globalization is globalization of culture of responsibility. Globalizing responsibility lies in the hearts of global citizens to gather all the positive forces of compassion and non-violence we can, of whatever origin, whatever nature, and to nurture, enrich and propagate them like luminous seeds of hope that ultimately leads to ecologically sustainable societies.
