Toward Ethical Internationalism/Globalism: Engaging the Political Economy of Knowledge Production in Global Citizenship Education

• In Event: Contradictions and Complexities of Curriculum Reforms Around the World

Abstract

The concept of ‘global citizenship’ has become prominent in Europe and the Americas in government, civil society and educational discourses Different agendas and theoretical frameworks inform these discourses which construct different meanings to the words global, citizenship and education that imply different curricula and intervention packages for education. This paper offers a synthesis of arguments mainly developed by Latin American scholars on the need for different epistemologies and a more nuanced understanding of modernity and coloniality in discussions in this area. It highlights the importance of the body- and geo-politics of knowledge production in order to adress ethnocentric, ahistorical, depoliticized, paternalistic, salvationist and triumphalist approaches in education that tend to deficit theorize, pathologize or trivialize difference.

Author

• Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, University of Oulu