Taught By:
Hiba Zakai
PhD Candidate in College of Education
Graduate Coordinator in Steans Center for Community Service Based Learning
DePaul University
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Course Description:
Global citizenship is the idea that human individuals, irrespective of place of birth or cultural background, are citizens of the world. This course explores the idea of global citizenship and its implications for questions of justice, culture, and education. The course engages global citizenship from its historical development in the Western philosophical tradition and its manifestations beyond the West, with an especial focus on the philosophy of Daisaku Ikeda. Drawing resources from various disciplines (political theory, anthropology, moral philosophy, curriculum theory), this course seeks to understand the potential and limitations of global citizenship to respond to contemporary issues in education in times of globalization.