Global Citizenship Education

What is Global Citizenship Education?

Global Citizenship Education (GCE) is an educational process aimed at increasing awareness and understanding of the rapidly changing, interdependent and unequal world in which we live. By challenging stereotypes and encouraging independent thinking, GCE helps students critically explore the root causes of global justice issues and how they interlink with our everyday lives.

GCE inspires global solidarity by supporting people to fully realise their rights, responsibilities and potential as global citizens in order to take meaningful action for a just and sustainable world. More on the definition of Global Citizenship Education.

Global Citizenship Education Guiding Principles

Global Citizenship Education (GCE) is central to fostering an informed and active global society, and WorldWise Global Schools have developed five GCE Guiding principles that emphasises key guiding principles in this mission. These principles are:

• Unlearning and Reconstructing: Question what we know and make space for a new way of thinking.
• Finding Root Causes: Dig Deeper to find the causes of an inequality or injustice.
• Prioritising Human Rights: Our actions and solutions to global issues should not lead to the exploitation of people.
• Making Local to Global Links: Connect local issues with global issues and global issues with local issues.
• Acting in Solidarity: Work together on an equal footing to challenge injustice.

Click on the principles above to find out more about them and to get activities and resources.

These principles guide the development of globally aware educators and students who are capable of contributing to a more just and sustainable world.

Download the Guiding Principles poster in pdf here. (document size: A1)