Embedding Global Citizenship Education (GCE) into Higher Education

This Open Course introduces higher education staff to the principles, pedagogies, and practices of Global Citizenship Education (GCE), supporting you to embed these into your teaching, research, student engagement approaches, and wider institutional structures and policies. It explores how GCE relates to and differs from complementary fields such as Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), development education, human rights education, anti-racism education, social justice education and intercultural education.

Issuer	National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
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