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Decolonizing Global Citizenship

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Decolonizing Global Citizenship Education

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The growth of global citizenship education scholarship across the work of scholars in multiple areas of research can only be described as remarkable in the past little while. Therefore, it is the intention of this book, coming out of a conference on the topic, to explore conceptualizations and cases of global citizenship education as it is currently being taken up in different locations.

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Abdi, A.A., Shultz, L., Pillay, T. (2015). Decolonizing Global Citizenship. In: Abdi, A.A., Shultz, L., Pillay, T. (eds) Decolonizing Global Citizenship Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-277-6_1

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