Global Citizenship Education:

A Conceptual Framework

Teaching global citizenship education in Aotearoa New Zealand through a Centres of Asia-Pacific Excellence framework.

Global citizenship education encourages young people to think critically about the challenges facing our world today and respond in ways that create a more equitable, inclusive and sustainable future. Teaching global citizenship education requires a holistic and interwoven approach.
The Centres of Asia-Pacific Excellence developed a framework to teach global citizenship education in a way that reflects our unique geographical positioning within the Asia-Pacific region. In this clip, Dr Donella Cobb from the University of Waikato’s Centre for Global Studies in Education introduces this conceptual framework.
N.B. Dr Cobb refers to Global Challenges, we have since changed this to Global Responsibility to emphasise the action that is needed.

This framework is underpinned by four interwoven concepts that guide young people towards transformative action and sustainable change.
These concepts teach learners to:

understand three big ideas about global citizenship
know about global citizenship through local and global contexts
act in response to global challenges, inequalities and injustice
change the future through critically evaluating change.
Each of these four concepts is explained below.

The big ideas of global citizenship

Global citizenship education is underpinned by three big ideas. When taught together, these three big ideas provide a holistic and comprehensive understanding of global citizenship. These three big ideas are tuakiritanga/identity, hononga/connections and kaitiakitanga/responsibility.

Identity aims to strengthen young people’s awareness of who they are in the world through relationships with people, place and environment.
Connections foster curiosity to learn about, learn with and learn through cultures, languages, people and places within our local and global communities.
Responsibility invites young people to work collaboratively to identify, critically examine and creatively respond to the challenges facing our world today.

Te Whai Toi Tangata and the CAPEs Education team

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