Pownall, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-3734-8006, Birtill, P. orcid.org/0000-0002-4690-2558 and Harris, R. orcid.org/0000-0002-2504-382X (2024) Student perceptions of global citizenship education in the university curriculum. Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education. ISSN 1360-3108
Abstract
Given the pressing global challenges facing society, it is imperative that students are well equipped to contribute to solving problems, in an informed, ethical and meaningful way. This is the basis of global citizenship education, which is rapidly emerging in Higher Education policy as an important pedagogical philosophy and set of graduate attributes. We examined UK undergraduate student perceptions of global citizenship education (N = 202). Only 12.87% of students had come across the term global citizenship education, but a content analysis of their definitions demonstrated that they showed generally accurate understanding of the term. A thematic analysis of open-ended responses identified three dominant themes related to student perspectives on the concept of global citizenship education, (1) perceived importance of global citizenship education, (2) challenges within the conceptualisation of global citizenship and (3) perceived challenges with the subject-level implementation of global citizenship education. Implications for Higher Education policy and practice are discussed.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Keywords: | Global citizenship education; graduate attributes; student voice; mixed methods |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2025 10:44 |
Last Modified: | 03 Mar 2025 10:44 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13603108.2024.2422501 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:223806 |
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