Educating for global citizenship in diverse and unequal societies

This chapter aims at distilling 20 years of research in intercultural and social justice education resulting in systematically delineating the notion of global citizenship education (GCE) as a new educational perspective providing an innovative angle to reframe old dilemmas of citizenship in diverse societies. GCE provides a value-based idea of citizenship as ecological belonging to the world. In this chapter, the author argues that while the idea of global citizenship does not have legal value, a new environmental ethic is rooted in it, by closing the traditional gap between citizenship and sustainability, human rights and environment, social sphere and biosphere.