In Service of the Western World: Global Citizenship Education within a Ghanaian Elite Context

Autor/inn/en	Howard, Adam; Dickert, Patrick; Owusu, Gerald; Riley, DeVaughn
Titel	In Service of the Western World: Global Citizenship Education within a Ghanaian Elite Context
Quelle	In: British Journal of Educational Studies, 66 (2018) 4, S.497-514 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-1005
DOI	10.1080/00071005.2018.1533100
Schlagwörter	Global Approach; Social Class; Social Differences; Western Civilization; African Culture; Secondary Schools; Selective Admission; Foreign Countries; Intervention; Teaching Methods; Study Abroad; Overseas Employment; Educational Change; Ethnography; Cultural Differences; Student Attitudes; Citizenship Education; Foreign Policy; Ghana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Globales Denken; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Sozialer Unterschied; Africa; Culture; Afrika; Kultur; Sekundarschule; Bildungsselektion; Ausland; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Auslandstätigkeit; Bildungsreform; Ethnografie; Kultureller Unterschied; Schülerverhalten; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Außenpolitik
Abstract	This article employs postcolonial perspectives to examine the possibilities and limitations of drawing on Pan-African ideas to establish practices and meanings for global citizenship education at an elite secondary school in Ghana. In this examination, the authors explore the ways in which the school's interventions to reinforce sameness/unity produce different understandings of global citizenship between students from different social class backgrounds. The article addresses how the school attempts to dissociate students from their native cultures for the purpose of teaching them the ways of knowing and doing necessary to live and work/study in the West. The authors illustrate the ways in which the lessons students are being taught about what it means to be a global citizen reinscribe hegemonic discourse through Pan-African rhetoric. The article concludes by calling for alternative forms of global citizenship education that emphasize critical consciousness. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01