ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on global citizenship education (GCE) as the process of becoming more self-aware, and thus more human; developing a global mindset, and the role of dialogue in the process of becoming and knowing. To this end, the perspectives of Freire and Ikeda (Freire, 1985; Ikeda, 1996) serve to illuminate how education and the pedagogy of dialogue provide a context for GCE and human development. In this chapter, the platform of humanism is employed to broaden the understanding of GCE and how it contributes to the process of becoming more humanistic and knowing others. How do we teach individuals to become aware of their own humanity and become learners that embrace the humanity of the world? For it is in the link to one's humanity that one learns to become more fully human. Fostering global citizens requires a humanistic education; an education that reveals an individual's capacity for peace (Noddings, 2005).
