Global Citizenship and its Future Horizons in the Arab World

Author
Dalia Aljizawi
ISBN
1110-8681
Collation
29 p.
Resource Language
Arabic
Year of publication
2017
Topic
Civic / Citizenship / Democracy
Resource Type
Research papers / journal articles
Level of education
Higher education
Region
Arab States
Place of publication
Cairo

 

In this article, the researcher is trying to illustrate the concept of global citizenship in the Arab nations. The researcher presented the development of the concept of global citizenship based on the changes that the Arab world faced in the past. The article then goes to state the relationship between  the horizons of the global citizenship and nationality/belongings of people to the Arab world. Moreover, there were two indicators presented to evaluate global citizenship. In the last part of the paper, the author talks about implementing global citizenship in education through focusing on cognitive skills, socio-emotional skills and behavioral skills. The author recommends at the end of involving children through education to achieve global citizenship. The paper ends with some recommendations to make children participate in global citizenship education.