Tagged: Global Citizenship

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Understanding Natural Heritage to Protect Life: A Project Connecting Primary Education and Vocational Training

The current historical moment presents significant challenges for educational processes, especially if we understand education as a privileged space to foster thinking and action that help us make sense of the complex and ever-changing global world we live in. As Fernando Valladares (2023, p. 11) stated, “We are at war. With each other. With ourselves. With nature. We are drunk on technology and arrogance, convinced that our survival is assured, when it has never been more threatened than it is today.” In this context, education plays a central role in reshaping our relationship with nature and in helping us rethink our role as human beings within the web of life.

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Building global citizenship in the age of digital capitalism

In the complex and increasingly interconnected world we live in today, a world facing an unprecedented eco-social crisis, there is no escaping the need to build global citizenship. Against this backdrop, Global Citizenship Education (GCED) has become an essential field of study and intervention encompassing a wide range of practices that, over time, have given rise to a multiplicity of meanings and debates.