Global Education – an educational perspective to cope with globalisation?
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of Global Education (GE) from a “theory of action plan” and an “evolutionary and systems theory” approach as an educational perspective to cope with globalisation – more specifically, the challenges of globalisation. Moreover, an additional aim is to analyse the linkages of GE according to global society, global citizenship and transformative learning concepts.
Design/methodology/approach
The analysis is based on a literature review regarding the challenges of globalisation combined with the theoretical pattern of GE separated into the following dimensions: objective/issues, temporal, spatial and social based on Lang-Wojtasik (2012), which will be further complemented with approaches from Selby and Rathenow (2006).
Findings
GE is an educational perspective to cope with globalisation in consideration of different definitions and approaches of GE. The methods of GE, such as promoting a holistic view on the world, are designed based on the challenges of globalisation and, as a result, GE can provide perspectives for coping with globalisation.
Originality/value
The challenges of globalisation are more and more noticeable in daily life. Therefore, it seems meaningful to the authors to resume an educational concept dealing with these challenges.
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Citation
Lehner, D. and Wurzenberger, J. (2013), "Global Education – an educational perspective to cope with globalisation?", Campus-Wide Information Systems, Vol. 30 No. 5, pp. 358-368. https://doi.org/10.1108/CWIS-08-2013-0033
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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