Educating Global Citizens for the 21st Century

In times of disruption, the choice to become a member of an emerging world community is so important – now more than ever. To combat the rise in populism, we need schools to promote global citizenship, respect for diversity and critical thinking. To solve the planet’s hardest problems, we need education to advance a new understanding of our place in the world and teach a new intelligence enabling us to coexist and co-create with people different than ourselves. 

How is the increasingly interdependent world reshaping our identity? How do we rethink education to foster a new generation of responsible global leaders? Experts share their views.
 

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