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Educating Global Citizens

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Summary: Based on a case study of international schooling in Singapore, the paper examines a nascent development that pushes education to denationalize and to expand both the cognitive horizon and affective attachment of students to the entire globe. The key agents driving this process are private, nationally unaffiliated schools with highly diverse student bodies in which no particular group dominates all others. Unlike schools that cater primarily for certain groups of nationals and/or offer nationally specific curricula, they must, for sheer lack of alternatives, orient their pedagogic efforts toward educating global citizens. The problem is, however, that nobody really knows what that means, forcing the schools to experiment and innovate. The paper shows how they deal with this challenge and speculates about some of the implications of their endeavors – locally as well as globally

• Creator/s: Volker H. Schmidt, Tiffany Jordan Chuang May
• Date: 2014
• Year: 2014
• Book Topics/Themes: international schools, ib education, international baccalaureate

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