Review of "Global Citizenship Education in Post-Secondary Institutions: Theories, Practices, Policies"

Abstract

This edited volume contains 20 provocative chapters about the role of post-secondary institutions in global citizenship education. The editors, all educators from the University of Alberta, solicited the chapters from presenters at an international conference hosted in 2008 by their institution's Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research (CGCER). The resulting volume represents international and interdisciplinary perspectives that address a gap in the current literature on the theories, policies, and practices of global citizenship education in higher education. In its entirety, the book raises multiple critical questions about how the concept of global citizenship should be defined and interrogated, what roles curriculum and pedagogy should play, and what the role of higher education should be in terms of educating outside of disciplinary interests; indeed, one of the final chapters even questions the modelling role of institutions themselves as global citizens.