This book is an empirical study of global citizenship education in ten secondary schools in the United States and Asia. Proponents seek to equip students with the consciousness and competencies necessary to make a world of universal benevolence, peace, and prosperity. However, many of the moral assumptions of global citizenship education are more complex and contradict these goals, and are just as likely to have the unintended consequence of reinforcing a more particular Western individualism. Dill argues that global citizenship education in its current forms has significant limits that proponents have not yet acknowledged, which may very well undermine it in the long run.

Introduction Part I: Origins 1. Why Global Citizenship? 2. Educating Citizens: The Long View Part II: Features 3. Global Citizenship as Global Consciousness 4. Global Citizenship as Global Competencies Part III: Problems 5. The Problem of Conformity 6. The Problem of Particularity 7. Liberal Individualism and the Limits of Global Citizenship Education Part IV: Possibilities 8. Alternative Possibilities, Alternative Realities. Conclusion. Appendix A: Data and Method. Appendix B: Education as Formation: Theoretical Framework.

Jeffrey S. Dill is Research Assistant Professor of Social Thought in the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University in St. Davids, PA.