ABSTRACT
This book considers the importance and implementation of cosmopolitan education in a series of steps. It utilises an approach that delves into the cosmopolitan canon. It draws on hundreds of years of thought to identify the underlying cosmopolitan insights that can usefully be applied to the higher education context. Cosmopolitan scholars have weathered hundreds of years of turbulent history and the approaches they promote have been strengthened by the challenges the world has faced. Through emphasising international mobility, the industry of international education interprets global citizenship in instrumental terms, overlooking the potential for transformation that lies within, and in close proximity. Many institutions include 'global citizenship' in their definition of graduate attributes. In the second decade of the twenty-first century, surely fully developed human beings are those ready to live, and lead, lives as global citizens.
