ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 substantiates a particular conception of global democratic citizenship education by determining concrete educational ends and processes that such citizenship education should pursue. The chapter dubs this conception “transnational democratic conscientization,” because it demands the formation of not only a domestic but also a transnational democratic consciousness. The ends and processes of global citizenship education that this chapter determines consist of certain attitudes, skills and knowledge that are necessary for exercising democratic agency on the domestic as well as on the inter-, supra- and transnational levels. The particular educational ends that this chapter justifies include self-respect and respect vis-à-vis others irrespective of one’s own and others’ particular citizenship, epistemic modesty as well as contextual knowledge about inter- and transnational political affairs. Among the processes that the chapter identifies as crucial for realizing these ends are particular forms of multicultural education and school programs that integrate students from different national contexts.
