Mapping Global CitizenshipPhase two of my inquiry was to seek understanding beyond service learning projects and definitions of global citizenship and dig deeper into the critical thinking side of the conversation. After reading the book Cosmopolitan by Kwame Appiah my eyes were opened to understanding that there is more than one way of viewing and understanding the concepts of Global Citizenship, Universalism, and Cosmopolitanism. In considering this project I remembered a colleague talking to me about an article written by Sharon Stein about using "mapping" to help students understand that global citizenship has multiple perspectives and the importance of seeing the depth and breadth of the Global Citizenship conversation. Below is the research findings from that article.
Sharon Stein, in her work Mapping Global Citizenship, contests that Westernized/American students beyond high school in higher education are taught or led into the one of four main positions or beliefs about global citizenship. She indicates “each tends to reproduce certain ‘scripts’, or discursive patterns of thought and action, particularly with regard to conceptualizations of the ‘Other.’” The “Other” being U.S. Secondary & University Students. Here are the four positions with a bit of commentary.
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