Expressions of global citizenship education in Chinese higher education

Thesis

Global Citizenship Education (GCE) focuses on cultivating in young people the inner aspirations and contextually situated behavioural orientations to contribute to a just and interdependent planetary civilization. Yet promotion of GCE’s grand and normative narratives of a ‘shared future’ can be critiqued as defined by a privileged few, dominated by Anglophone and Global North framings, and could also become enmeshed with political agendas of the state. The Chinese educational context prese...

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Authors: Habibi, A

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-2z5gqjnnx
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Teaching and Learning; Chinese Higher Education; Arts-Based Methods; Chinese Universities; Global Citizenship Education; Ethnography
• Subjects: Learning; Arts; Education; Philosophy; Teaching