ABSTRACT
Global Citizenship Education is seen as an intervention dealing with: a new class of global challenges which require some form of collective response to find effective solutions. Global citizenship is a form of intervention searching for a theory and an agency for implementation because the world is becoming increasingly interdependent and diverse, and its borders more porous. Theories of global citizenship have formed part of diverse knowledge fields for long time, including comparative and international education, civic education, political sociology of education, political science and political philosophy. Any definition and theory of global citizenship as a model of intervention to promote global peace and sustainable development has become the trademark of globalization: cultural diversity. Therefore, global citizenship should rely on a definition of global democratic multicultural citizenship. The idea of "democratic multicultural citizenship" in which education helps students to develop the dispositions and abilities to work across social and cultural differences in a quest for solidarity.
