Fostering Global Literacy among Japanese University Students through Global Citizenship Education

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Japan, a faceless industrial nation notorious for its global isolation and multicultural deficiency, is now at risk in the middle of globalization. Consequently, Japan today is agonizing on the edge of dramatic transitions needed to get along with the rest of the world. The key to Japan's transition to becoming a peaceful global partner will be largely influenced by global citizenship education for future generations, especially for Japanese university students blindly intoxicated by affluence and indifference. Could global education wake up Japanese university students in order to enable them to think globally and act both locally and globally? This paper discusses issues related to global literacy and the fostering of multicultural global citizenship in Japan. The challenge and achievements involved in integrating controversial global and crosscultural issues into a university-level global citizenship education class are discussed. Can students achieve a reconceptualized view of citizenship, called multicultural citizenship, that will enable them to acquire a delicate balance of, cultural, national and global identification (Banks, 1998) through global citizenship education for human solidarity?
甲南大学の論文
2004-03-15