ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the conception of “flourishing” (Pogge, 2018) in global citizenship education (GCE). What does it mean to be a flourishing person in the world? Relatedly, how does one educate for a flourishing world? Flourishing is a challenging criterion by which to judge development and societies, especially in the context of globalization. Flourishing is necessarily broad so as not to be readily translatable into benchmarks and standards for how people and societies live and develop. Pogge (2018) argues that the criterion of human flourishing has meaning for ourselves, for the judgment of others, as well as for the social institutions that operate socially. In the case of our own lives and the lives of those around us, he points to four dimensions of flourishing, including experience, success, character, and achievements as suggestive though not comprehensive for what it entails.
