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The global citizenship education gap: Teacher perceptions of the relationship between global citizenship education and students’ socio-economic status

Heela Goren, +1 more
- 01 Oct 2017 - 
- Vol. 67, pp 9-22
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In this paper, the authors examined Israeli secondary school teachers' perceptions of global citizenship education (GCE), concentrating on the socio-economic makeup of the schools' population, and found evidence of a GCE gap involving students, schools, and teachers, shedding light on this gap's possible consequences.
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This article is published in Teaching and Teacher Education.The article was published on 2017-10-01. It has received 74 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Global citizenship education & Teacher education.

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A cross-national comparison of teachers' beliefs about the aims of civic education in 12 countries: A person-centered analysis

TL;DR: The authors examined teachers' beliefs about the aims of citizenship education in 12 countries from Europe and Asia, finding that teachers across countries thought it was far more important to foster students' participation in the school or local community than to foster future political participation.
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Neoliberal practices amidst social justice orientations: global citizenship education in South Korea

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the discourse, design and delivery of Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in the young nation-state of South Korea and argue that GCE reinforces and maintains the hegemonic ideals of global capitalism; core-periphery global and local relationships; and dichotomous views of poverty and inequalities.
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Teaching diversity in citizenship education: Context-related teacher understandings and practices

TL;DR: This paper examined how secondary teachers' understandings and practices concerning teaching about diversity are related to school contextual factors, such as student composition and educational track, and concluded that teachers rarely addressed diversity in terms of deep-rooted issues such as inequality and power relationships.
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De-coupling or remaining closely coupled to 'home': educational strategies around identity-making and advantage of Israeli global middle-class families in London

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make an empirical contribution to the study of the global middle class and shed light on the complex relationships that are constructed and sustained by these families with respect to the global economy.
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Global Citizenship Education in the Era Of Mobility, Conflict and Globalisation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight how the transnational flow of people in a "global age" shapes the needs and aspirations of learners, and how citizenship education can engage with this, while taking...
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