ABSTRACT
This chapter briefly introduces a global multicultural democratic citizenship theory of global citizenship education (GCE) and highlights the implications of GCE for adult education. A global citizenship education approach to adult education intersects individual development as a participatory process with sustainable development and peace education fostered by model of global commons. Global citizenship as being marked by a combination of an understanding of global ties, relations and connections, with various forms of participation driven by commitment to a global collective good. The chapter presents GCE for adult education that is grounded and contextualized in localities but combines multiple knowledges and multi-civic virtues that transcend borders for actions that endeavor to defend humanity and global commons. Ubuntu is an African collective ethos of universal bond between people based upon the sharing and collectivity of all humanity, which can be the foundation for GCE programs not only in relevant communities but might have possibility of resonating with others around the world.
