Developing Global Awareness for Global Citizenship Education

Hongtao Jing is Associate Professor at the College of Economics at Kanto Gakuin University, Japan. His research interests include intercultural communicative competence, global awareness, global/intercultural citizenship, language teacher cognition, CLIL, virtual exchange, and competences for democratic culture within language education in East Asia.

• Part I Exploring Core Issues of Global Awareness and Global Citizenship.- 1 Introducing the Global Awareness Study.- 2 Global Awareness, Intercultural Communicative Competence, and Global Citizenship.- 3 Global Englishes, Global Learning, and Teacher Cognition.- 4 Global Awareness and Intercultural Language Teaching in China.- Part II Teacher Cognition about Global Awareness.- 5 Teachers’ Beliefs and Reported Practices Regarding Global Awareness.- 6 Factors that Shape Teachers’ Beliefs about Global Awareness.- Part III Global Awareness in Classroom Practice.- 7 Chinese English Teachers’ Classroom Practices.- 8 Classroom Practices of Three Canadian English Teachers.- Part IV Discussion and Conclusions.- 9 Discussion.- 10 Preparing Language Teachers for Intercultural/Global Citizenship Education.- 11 Conclusions.