ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 addresses the question of how to conceive citizenship education when recognizing a conception of global democratic justice as the normative ground of educational public policy. In answering this question it assesses some of the most influential existing conceptions of democratic citizenship education and criticizes them for being domestically biased. This chapter then goes on to articulate a global conception of democratic citizenship education, according to which citizenship education must contribute to the formation of domestic as well as transnational democratic consciousness. For unless citizenship education contributes to building up such consciousness, the chapter maintains, not only inter- and transnational but also domestic decision-making processes will remain democratically deficient.
