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- Contributor(s)
- Roberta Lexier; Melanie Rathburn
- Date issued
- 2016
- Description
- Global citizenship is frequently identified by industry, government, and universities in Canada as an important outcome of education. However, there is significant debate about the meaning of this term. The goals of this report are: to explain the roots of this debate, identify some of the key terms frequently used by universities as proxies for global citizenship, uncover discrepancies among universities in their understanding and approach to global citizenship, propose a unifying framework for global citizenship, and offer some methods through which institutions can evaluate their efforts. A shared understanding of how our education system discusses global citizenship is necessary to...
- Type
- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Teaching and Learning
- Contributor(s)
- Sharon D. Simpson; Sonya L. Jakubec; Cheryl Zawaduk; Cheryl Lyall
- Date issued
- 2015
- Description
- As university and nursing programs place more emphasis on global perspectives in their strategic plans and goals, it is frequently unclear how these perspectives are integrated into curricula and pedagogical practices. With globalization processes impacting health and education throughout the world, it is timely to understand the current context and expertise in order to move ahead to promote the development of professional nurses as global citizens. This interpretive descriptive study explored the characteristics and qualities of global citizenship and global health from the perspective of 12 expert informant nursing education leaders from undergraduate nursing programs within Canada....
- Type
- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education