Value-Creating Global Citizenship Education

Reviews / Votes

"Global citizenship has become a popular theme of numerous educational publications but this excellent volume by Dr. Sharma brings Asian perspectives and approaches that have been sadly neglected in the literature to date. What is particularly impressive about this volume is the way in which the ideas of Gandhi and two Japanese thinkers, Makiguchi and Ikeda, are shown to be very relevant to today's social, political and educational debates." (Douglas Bourn, Professor and Co-Director of the Development Education Research Centre, University College London-Institute of Education, UK, and author of Theory and Practice of Development Education)

"A well-researched treatise on the three revolutionaries, Makiguchi, Ikeda, and Gandhi, this study offers refreshing insights into their contemporary relevance and the subsequent efforts underway in different parts of the world to contextualize their visions for the practice of global citizenship education, human rights and a sustainable future. The author reveals admirable analytical skills in revisiting their strivings for a new humanistic world vision through restructuring of education as a potential instrument of value creation." (N. Radhakrishnan, Professor, Senior Gandhian scholar and activist, Chairman of Indian Council of Gandhian Studies, New Delhi, and Dean of the Faculty of Languages in Gandhigram University, India)

"Globalcitizenship is enjoying a rediscovery lately in the scholarly literature-and for good reason given increasing turns toward nationalism worldwide. In this book, Namrata Sharma offers an important, timely and necessary examination of non-Western perspectives and praxis of education for global citizenship rooted in the internationally growing area of value-creation advanced by Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Daisaku Ikeda, and in the philosophy and practice of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi." (Jason Goulah, Associate Professor of Bilingual-Bicultural Education and Director of the Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies in Education, DePaul University, Chicago, USA)