 Educating Citizens for Global Awarenessreviewed by Ethan Lowenstein - 2006  Title: Educating Citizens for Global AwarenessAuthor(s): Nel Noddings (Editor) Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 0807745359, Pages: 161, Year: 2005 Search for book at Amazon.com It is fairly easy to list off the ways in which our fates are intertwined with those of others around the globe at the turn of the twenty-first century. What is more difficult to do is to argue for an understanding of global citizenship sophisticated enough to stand up adequately to the challenges of social life in the global village. Even more difficult still is to map out what teachers need to know and be able to do in order to educate students for global citizenship. The implicit purpose of Educating Citizens for Global Awareness is to do just that, and the book’s editor, Nel Noddings, has done an excellent job, through her selections and her own contributions, in tacking back and forth between big-picture philosophical theorizing about what education for global citizenship is and why we need to do it, and concrete approaches to curricular transformation. Noddings’ book is a... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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