Education for global citizenship is an ambitious goal. One of its ambitions lies in expectations that future global citizens will make sense of and reconcile complex, competing values and purposes. At the heart of the values and purposes of education for global citizenship lies a tension between a cosmopolitan imperative and what future role — if any — there might be for patriotism. Can both be accommodated in the conceptual underpinnings and the practices of citizenship education, especially in efforts to promote understanding and solidarity between citizens of rich and poor countries? This article considers recent competing arguments for a qualified place for both patriotism and cosmopolitanism. Reflecting on the example of global citizenship education in the Scotland Malawi Partnership, the author proposes an approach to educating for global citizenship that locates the cosmopolitan as educationally fundamental.
References
1.
AppiahK. (2006) Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a world of strangers. New York: Norton.
2.
BohmanJ. (2007) Democracy across Borders: From Demos to Demoi. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
EnslinP.HedgeN. (2010) A Good Global Neighbour: Scotland, Malawi and global citizenship, Citizenship Teaching and Learning, 6(1), 91–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ctl.6.1.91_1.
8.
EnslinP.TjiattasM. (2008) Cosmopolitan Justice: Education and global citizenship, in PetersM.BrittonA.BleeH. (Eds) Global Citizenship Education: Philosophy, theory and pedagogy. Rotterdam: Sense.
9.
EnslinP.TjiattasM. (2011) Democratic Inclusion and Lifelong Learning in a Globalising World, in AspinD.N.ChapmanJ.EvansK.BagnallR. (Eds) Second International Handbook of Lifelong Learning, pt. 1. Dordrecht: Springer.
10.
EnslinP.TjiattasM. (forthcoming) Education, Justice and the Limits of Statism, in GaleaS.MerciecaD. (Eds) My Teaching, My Philosophy: A lifelong engagement with education. London: Taylor & Francis.
11.
FraserN. (2008) Scales of Justice: Reimagining political space in a globalising world. Cambridge: Polity Press.
KuperA. (2004) Democracy beyond Borders: Justice and representation in global institutions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
16.
MiklosA. (2009) Nationalist Criticisms of Cosmopolitan Justice, Public Reason, 1(1), 105–125.
17.
MillerD. (2007) National Responsibility and Global Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
18.
MillerD. (2008) National Responsibility and Global Justice, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 11(4), 383–399. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698230802415862.
