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GLOBALISATION SOCIETIES AND EDUCATION
Volume 9, Issue 3-4, Pages 443-456Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14767724.2011.605327
Keywords
education for global citizenship; environmental education; development education; citizenship education
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- International Development Education Association of Scotland
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Encouraged by transnational organisations, curriculum policy-makers in the UK have called for curricula in schools and higher education to include a global dimension and education for global citizenship that will prepare students for life in a global society and work in a global economy. We argue that this call is rhetorically operating as a 'nodal point' in policy discourse - a floating signifier that different discourses attempt to cover with meaning. This rhetoric attempts to bring three educational traditions together: environmental education, development education and citizenship education. We explore this new point of arrival and departure and some of the consequences and critiques.
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