Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education

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Introduction: (Towards) Global Citizenship Education 'Otherwise' Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti and Lynn Mario T. M. de Souza Part 1: Conceptual Analyses: Global Citizenship Education and the Gifts and Limitations of Postcolonial Theory 1. Questions for Global Citizenship Education in the Context of the 'New Imperialism': For Whom, By Whom? Karen Pashby 2. Unsettling Cosmopolitanism: Global Citizenship and the Cultural Politics of Benevolence David Jefferess 3. Postcolonial Cosmopolitanisms: Towards a Global Citizenship Education Based on 'Divisive Universalism' Colin Wright 4. Engaging the Global by Re-situating the Local: (Dis)locating the Literate Global Subject and his View from Nowhere Lynn Mario T. M. de Souza Part 2: Critiques of GCE Initiatives: Policies, Campaigns, Study Abroad and Volunteering Schemes 5. Entitled to the World: The Rhetoric of U.S. Global Citizenship Education and Study Abroad Talya Zemach-Bersin 6. How Does 'Global Citizenship Education' Construct Its Present? The Crisis of International Education Paul Tarc 7. 'I'm Here to Help': Development Workers, the Politics of Benevolence and Critical Literacy Nancy Cook 8. Making Poverty History in the Society of the Spectacle: Civil Society and Educated Politics Nick Stevenson 9. Recolonized Citizenships, Rhetorical Postcolonialities: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Prospects for Decolonized Ontologies and Subjectivities Ali A. Abdi and Lynette Shultz Youth Study Tour to Africa (poem) Lynette Shultz Part 3: Creating Postcolonial Spaces: Global Citizenship Education 'Otherwise' 10. Beyond Paternalism: Global Education with Preservice Teachers as a Practice of Implication Lisa Taylor 11. Re-Routing the Postcolonial University: Educating for Citizenship in Managed Times Su-ming Khoo 12. Equivocal Knowing and Elusive Realities: Imagining Global Citizenship Otherwise Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Cash Ahenakew and Garrick Cooper