Global Citizenship Education: An Emerging Perspective

This document draws on inputs to, and common perspectives emerging from, a Technical Consultation on Global Citizenship Education organized by UNESCO and the Republic of Korea (i.e., the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of Education, and the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding) in Seoul on 9-10 September 2013.

The document intends to present common perspectives emerging from the consultation on the following questions:

1. Why global citizenship and global citizenship education now?
2. What is global citizenship education?
3. What needs to be done at the global level to support and promote global citizenship education?