ABSTRACT
This chapter describes global citizenship as the unifying thread woven in this book how it is connected to the respective literacies. It discusses global citizenship in light of the Critical Literacies Advancement Model. The chapter also discusses the role global citizens play in promoting equity and social justice. With the current push to include diversity goals as part of their intellectual mission and to espouse diversity as a core value, US higher-education institutions, through their internationalization education policies in particular, claim to prepare students for global citizenship. It is often promoted as a benefit inherent in international education and prioritized as a body of capabilities that students should attain. Complicating matters further, the term “global citizenship” is multifunctional and widely used and it “seems to be universally understood, but is rarely conceptually or operationally defined”.
