Global Citizenship, Common Wealth and Uncommon Citizenships

Lynette Shultz, PhD, is Associate Dean, International, and Director of the Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. She has published widely on the topics of education policy, democracy, social justice, and global citizenship with a particular focus on decolonialism and the geo-politics of knowledge. She teaches courses on the topics of internationalization, global governance and education policy, and global citizenship education at the University of Alberta and the Universidade Católica de Brasilia where she is an Adjunct Associate Professor.Thashika Pillay has a PhD in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Alberta. She has extensive teaching experience in K-12 and higher education, having taught in Canada, Australia, and Ethiopia. Her scholarship focuses on issues related to educational policy, migration studies, critical and anticolonial feminisms, community engagement and anti-racist pedagogies. Her work engages issues of social and cognitive justice, critical global citizenship and Indigenous knowledge systems and aims to recentre marginalized knowledges and perspectives.

• 1. Global Citizenship, Common Wealth, and Uncommon Citizenships: An IntroductionLynette Shultz and Thashika Pillay2. The Contradictions of International Education and International Development: Counter-Eurocentric PerspectivesAli A. Abdi3. Aboriginal Women, Uncommon CitizensMarlene E. McKay4. Cycles of Learning and Unlearning through Literary Study: Reading Marginalized Experience Narratives for Critical Global Citizenship EducationCarrie Karsgaard5. The Scholarship of Engagement: Moving Higher Education from Isolated Islands to an Inclusive SpaceGrace Rwiza and Chouaib El Bouhali6. Seeking “Global Citizenship” in Graduate Library and Information Studies EducationToni Samek and Christina Palech7. The Role of Host Villages in Fostering Cosmopolitan Values among ISL ParticipantsHarry Smaller, Michael O’Sullivan, Xochilt Hernández and Ashley Rerrie8. Security in a World of Strangers: Exploring the Lived Meaning of Help Giving to International StudentsDerek Tannis9. Southern Struggles over “Knowing” and Their Significance for the Politics of Global CitizenshipCrain Soudien10. Dance for Change: Seeking Tribal Citizenship and IdentityKaren J. Pheasant-Neganigwane11. Global Citizenship Education as a UNESCO Key Theme: More of the Same or Opportunities for Thinking ‘Otherwise’?Karen Pashby12. Citizenship and Education for Adult NewcomersSung Kyung Ahn13. Transgressive Learning: Journey to Becoming EcocentricIrene Friesen WolfstoneAbout the ContributorsIndex