Critical Global Citizenship Education: Globalization and the Politics of Equity and Inclusion
About the Book Series
This series seeks to understand how globalization has affected educational reform in K–12 and higher education systems in many countries in Latin America, North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, but also understand the promise and prospects of global citizenship education as part of the post 2015 development goals set by the United Nations.
The particular focus of the series is on teacher perceptions of how globalization has influenced citizenship education, and to what extent global citizenship education can be implemented in classrooms. This will include critical analysis of changing student demographics and behavior, administration, funding, pedagogy and curriculum, testing and accountability, and interactions of schools with commerce and the community. Starting with the everyday experiences and knowledge of participants in educational processes, we will offer insights that can then be generalized above the level of the research subjects and inform deeper understanding of how globalization is affecting teachers and students in 21st century classrooms.
For more information please contact Kirsty Murray: [email protected]
Gentile and Fascist Education: Educational Totalitarianism and Political-Pedagogical Theology
1st Edition
By Fulvio De Giorgi
September 25, 2026
This book examines the educational philosophy of Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944), whose educational theories and cultural policies shaped the ideological foundation of Mussolini’s fascist regime. Adopting a cultural historical approach, it analyzes Gentile’s philosophy (known as “actualism”), ...
Contemporary Critical Theory and Latin America: A South-North Dialogue on the Crises of the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexis Gros, Agustín L. Prestifilippo, Santiago M. Roggerone
September 11, 2026
This edited volume offers an up-to-date overview of the intricate relationship between the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory and Latin America. The central intuition guiding this book is that to adequately confront the multiple crises of the present, Critical Theory must engage with Latin ...
Ecopedagogy and the Global Environmental Citizen: Critical Issues, Trends, Challenges and Possibilities
1st Edition
Edited
By Greg William Misiaszek
June 22, 2026
This edited volume collates over a decade of Greg William Misiaszek’s work on ecopedagogy, with a new focus on insights and possibilities for global citizenship education (GCE) scholarship. Rooted in critical theories and originating from Paulo Freire’s popular education models of Latin America, ...
Negotiating Citizenship Education: The State, Official Curriculum, and Agency in Contemporary China
1st Edition
By Jia Jiang
February 20, 2026
Negotiating Citizenship Education (CE) explores the dynamics, tensions, and space in Chinese socialist CE, focusing on how the political, economic, social, and educational structures in China, as well as individual agency, shape CE curriculum, teaching, and learning. In contrast to the West, China,...
New Conversations on Global Citizenship Education: Plural Voices, Ethical Commitments, and Emerging Futures
1st Edition
Edited
By Emiliano Bosio
November 10, 2025
New Conversations on Global Citizenship Education explores the multifaceted aspects of global citizenship education (GCE) in the context of contemporary university research, teaching and learning. Through dialogues, interviews and chapters from internationally recognised experts, the book ...
Chinese Conceptions of Democratic Education: Ethnographic Insights and Classroom Practice
1st Edition
By Wenchao Zhang
October 27, 2025
This book draws on a rich ethnographic study to examine Chinese democracy and its practices in democratic education. As the first book to interrogate practices of democratic education from an insider perspective, it offers a unique model of Chinese democratic education based in school practices. It...
Challenging the Research Complex: Education, External Influence, and Disrupting Dependence in Africa
1st Edition
By Joel Samoff
March 31, 2025
Starting with an overview of the intersection of local and global dynamics in education in Africa, this book focuses critical attention on education research and the problematic research process. Education held extraordinary promise at Africa’s independence. Rapid expansion in access and ...
Challenges to Democracy In and Beyond Education: American Policy, Politics, and Media in a Cynical Age
1st Edition
By Richard Van Heertum
November 29, 2024
This book explores political cynicism as a driving force at the heart of the current crisis of democracy in the United States, focusing on the crisis and the role of education, popular culture and news media in fostering and fighting cynicism. In this unique text, Van Heertum draws on historical ...
Contestations of Citizenship, Education, and Democracy in an Era of Global Change: Children and Youth in Diverse International Contexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Patricia K. Kubow, Nicole Webster, Krystal Strong, Daniel Miranda
May 27, 2024
Contestations of Citizenship, Education, and Democracy in an Era of Global Change: Children and Youth in Diverse International Contexts considers the shifting social, political, economic, and educational structures shaping contemporary experiences, understandings, and practices of citizenship among...
De-Centering Global Sociology: The Peripheral Turn in Social Theory and Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Arthur Bueno, Mariana Teixeira, David Strecker
May 27, 2024
This volume explores the challenges posed to sociological theory and social science research by a growing need to foreground perspectives stemming from, and accounting for, subaltern groups, marginal categories, the Global South, and other politically peripheral regions. De-Centering Global ...
Enacting Equitable Global Citizenship Education in Schools: Lessons from Dialogue between Research and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Lillo Kang, Shona McIntosh
May 27, 2024
Offering contributions and vignettes from teachers, school leaders, and scholars, this volume purposefully dismantles practitioner-academic divides to invite dialogue around diverse understandings of global citizenship education (GCE). Recognizing that the field of GCE is often explored and ...
Centering Global Citizenship Education in the Public Sphere: International Enactments of GCED for Social Justice and Common Good
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Wiksten
January 09, 2023
This book brings together key perspectives from scholars in the Global South and Global North to illustrate diverse ways in which the UN’s Global Citizenship Education (GCED) agenda can promote social justice and be used as a vehicle for negotiating and learning about diverse and shared objectives ...