Report on Global Citizenship, Challenges and Solutions

This report delves into the concept of global citizenship, examining its core principles and the responsibilities it entails. It emphasizes the importance of understanding one's role in the world and the need for global education to foster critical thinking and decision-making skills. The report highlights the qualities of effective global citizens, such as flexibility, pro-activeness, and the ability to work collaboratively. It discusses how global citizenship education can be integrated into existing curricula and emphasizes the impact of individual decisions on a global scale. The report references key scholarly works, including studies on global citizenship education and the role of universities in promoting it. The report also points towards the need for a more equitable and sustainable world through the lens of global citizenship. The report highlights the importance of considering the impact of decisions on a global scale and how it can affect the lives of others.

The idea of global
citizenship

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
An idea of global citizenship ......................................................................................................1
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION
An idea of global citizenship
Global citizenship nurtures personal respects and respects for others, wherever they live.
It includes the encouragement of an individual to think about what is equitable and what will
minimise harm to the planet. The global citizenship is the idea that includes all people have
rights and civic responsibilities that come with being a member of the world. It is a 21st century
approach consisted of some principles of global responsibilities which are required by every
nation (Jooste and Heleta, 2017). A person or an individual known as global citizen who is
aware of their own role as a world citizen, respects and valued diversity , have quite
understanding about the workings of the world, take part in the gathering at a range of levels,
from the local to the global and is willing to form world more even-handed and sustainable
place. The effective global citizens must have the qualities like flexible, pro-active and creative.
They are those people who are having ability to solve decisions , make decisions, think critically
communicate their ideas and work well in teams and groups.
Need for the education of global citizenship is not an additional subjects . It is a
framework apart from school to the bigger community. It can be make it learn in class with the
existing curriculum or including new initiatives and activities (Torres, 2017). The active,
democratic methods of Teaching for Global Citizenship and Sustainable Development assist
youth to acquire a knowledge of how decisions are made by people in different surroundings of
the world provide an affect our lives, just as our decisions affect the lives of others.
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REFERENCES
Torres, C.A., 2017. Global Citizenship Education and the Role of Universities: Seven
Iconoclastic Theses about Public Universities and Neoliberal Common Sense. In
Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Critical Global Citizenship Education (pp. 49-
67). Routledge.
Jooste, N. and Heleta, S., 2017. Global citizenship versus globally competent graduates: A
critical view from the South. Journal of Studies in International Education. 21(1). pp.39-
51.
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