Launch of new research report: “Going Global? Defining, Characterising and Constructing Global Citizenship”
Comhlámh is happy to launch a new research report that explores conceptualisations and constructs of global citizenship. “Going Global?” captures the findings of a year-long engaged research project that was led by Dr Barry Cannon of Maynooth University, in partnership with Comhlámh, Suas, and the Centre for Global Education. The research included a series of participative workshops with GCE practitioners intending to support an all-island exploration of the meaning and content of global citizenship. As highlighted in the summary,
“The main finding from the project is that participant attitudes to global citizenship can range from the pragmatic, through the agnostic to the sceptical, but that none of these positions are mutually exclusive or exhaustive either individually or collectively. Rather, it is recommended that global citizenship be treated as a provisional conceptual placeholder.”
We thank Barry and our partner organisations for the opportunity to dig deeper into these questions and identify further areas it would be helpful to explore collectively. We’d also like to thank the Irish Research Council & Irish Aid, who provided funding for the research through the New Foundations scheme.
Download the report here.
