Global Citizenship Education: Taking It Local
- Corporate Author
- UNESCO
- Collation
- 13 p.
- Resource Language
- EnglishFrench
- Year of publication
- 2018
- Topic
- Civic / Citizenship / DemocracyDiversity / Cultural literacy / InclusivenessPeace / Culture of peace
- Level of education
- Non-formal education
- Region
- Global
- Place of publication
- Paris
UNESCO is leading global efforts on Global Citizenship Education (GCED), which is at the core of Target 4.7 of Sustainable Development Goal 4 on Education. To address the perception that the concept of GCED is concerned mainly with global matters and maybe dissociated from local needs and realities, UNESCO has identified local/national/traditional precepts and concepts that are similar to the UNESCO understanding of global citizenship.
As culturally relevant expressions of GCED and to contribute to building peace through the implementation of GCED, the concepts identified here can serve as entry-points to teach and learn about GCED in more locally relevant ways.

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