Asia literacy and the globally oriented citizen: Framing the moral dimension of educating for Asia literacy

Abstract

In this chapter I focus on the place, neglect of and nature of moral relationships within education for Asian literacy. The analysis offered commences from the question: what sort of person is someone who is Asia literate? I suggest that an extended version of Bikhu Parekh’s (Rev Int Stud 29(1):3–17, 2003) notion of globally oriented citizenship provides a useful frame for responding to this question and to manifest the moral capacities central to Asia literacy. To illustrate the sorts of capacities involved, attention is paid to the related notions of humility and open-mindedness which, I argue, are both required for the form of globally oriented citizenship I posit as crucial for educating for Asia literacy.