Skip to content
1981
Volume 15, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 1751-1917
  • E-ISSN: 1751-1925

Abstract

The literature widely reports that national citizenship remains the focus of citizenship education in Japan and China, despite the emerged global elements in both cases. Yet the literature stops short of exploring how to advance the agenda of global citizenship in the dominant national citizenship education under the centralized education systems in Japan and China. With a list of global citizen attributes derived from a particular conception of citizenship, this article identifies and compares the pedagogical capacity and potential for global citizenship education in relevant Japanese and Chinese national curriculum guidelines, many of which have been recently revised. It is found that many attributes are indeed supported in the Japanese and Chinese guidelines, which, furthermore, leave pedagogical potential for the development of unsupported others. The findings at the policy level bear practical and research implications for global citizenship education in Japanese and Chinese schools.

Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journals/10.1386/ctl_00038_1
2020-10-01
2026-01-15
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

References

  1. Calloway-Thomas, C. (2010), Empathy in the Global World: An Intercultural Perspective, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
    [Google Scholar]
  2. Fujiwara, T. (2011), ‘International, global and multicultural education as an issue in citizenship education’, in N. Ikeno (ed.), Citizenship Education in Japan, London: Continuum, pp. 10715.
    [Google Scholar]
  3. The Genron NPO (2016), The 12th Japan-China Joint Opinion Poll: Analysis Report on the Comparative Data, Tokyo: The Genron NPO, http://www.genron-npo.net/pdf/2016forum_en.pdf. Accessed 19 July 2020.
    [Google Scholar]
  4. Halpin, D. (2003), Hope and Education: The Role of the Utopian Imagination, London: Routledge.
    [Google Scholar]
  5. Heater, D. (2002), World Citizenship: Cosmopolitan Thinking and Its Opponents, London: Continuum.
    [Google Scholar]
  6. Iwata, K. (2011), ‘Citizenship education in social studies textbooks and supplementary readers in postwar Japan’, in N. Ikeno (ed.), Citizenship Education in Japan, London: Continuum, pp. 8594.
    [Google Scholar]
  7. Kennedy, K. J. and Lee, J. C. K. (2010), The Changing Role of Schools in Asian Societies: Schools for the Knowledge Society, Abingdon: Routledge.
    [Google Scholar]
  8. Kuckartz, U. (2014), Qualitative Text Analysis: A Guide to Methods, Practice and Using Software, London: Sage Publications.
    [Google Scholar]
  9. Law, W. W. (2006), ‘Citizenship, citizenship education, and the state in China in a global age’, Cambridge Journal of Education, 36:4, pp. 597628.
    [Google Scholar]
  10. Lee, W. O. and Ho, C. H. (2008), ‘Citizenship education in China: Changing concepts, approaches and policies in the changing political, economic and social context’, in J. Arthur, I. Davies and C. Hahn (eds), The Sage Handbook of Education for Citizenship and Democracy, London: Sage Publications, pp. 13957.
    [Google Scholar]
  11. Ma, J. (2018), ‘Xi Jinping tries to rally support for Chinese dream in nationalist speech’, South China Morning Post, 20 March, https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2138112/xi-jinping-tries-rally-support-chinese-dream. Accessed 19 July 2020.
    [Google Scholar]
  12. Mori, C. and Davies, I. (2015), ‘Citizenship education in civics textbooks in the Japanese junior high school curriculum’, Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 35:2, pp. 15375.
    [Google Scholar]
  13. Nussbaum, M. (1997), Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
    [Google Scholar]
  14. Nussbaum, M. (2002), ‘Patriotism and cosmopolitanism’, in J. Cohen (ed.), For Love of Country?, Boston, MA: Beacon Press, pp. 317.
    [Google Scholar]
  15. Oxley, L. and Morris, P. (2013), ‘Global citizenship: a typology for distinguishing its multiple conceptions’, British Journal of Educational Studies, 61:3, pp. 30125.
    [Google Scholar]
  16. Parekh, B. (2003), ‘Cosmopolitanism and global citizenship’, Review of International Studies, 29:1, pp. 317.
    [Google Scholar]
  17. Rose, C. (2015), ‘Going global? National versus post-national citizenship education in contemporary Chinese and Japanese social studies curricula’, in E. Vickers and K. Kumar (eds), Constructing Modern Asian Citizenship, Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 83104.
    [Google Scholar]
  18. Sen, A. (2002), ‘Humanity and citizenship’, in J. Cohen (ed.), For Love of Country?, Boston, MA: Beacon Press, pp. 11118.
    [Google Scholar]
  19. Sieg, L. (2019), ‘New Japan era name echoes PM Abe’s national pride agenda’, Reuters, 1 April, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-emperor-abe/new-japan-era-name-echoes-pm-abes-national-pride-agenda-idUSKCN1RD1FA. Accessed 19 July 2020.
    [Google Scholar]
  20. Soysal, Y. N. and Wong, S.-Y. (2015), ‘Citizenship as a national and transnational enterprise: How education shapes regional and global relevance’, in Y. N. Soysal (ed.), Transnational Trajectories in East Asia: Nation, Citizenship, and Region, New York: Routledge, pp. 1945.
    [Google Scholar]
  21. Tse, T. K.-C. (2011), ‘Creating good citizens in China: Comparing grade 7–9 school textbooks, 1997–2005’, Journal of Moral Education, 40:2, pp. 16180.
    [Google Scholar]
  22. UNESCO (2014), Medium-Term Strategy 2014-2021 (37 C/4), Paris: UNESCO.
    [Google Scholar]
  23. UNESCO MGIEP (2017), Rethinking Schooling for the 21st Century: The State of Education for Peace, Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship in Asia, New Delhi: UNESCO MGIEP.
    [Google Scholar]
  24. Chen, Sicong (2020), ‘Advancing global citizenship education in Japan and China: An exploration and comparison of the national curricula’, Citizenship Teaching & Learning, 15:3, pp. 341356, doi: https://doi.org/10.1386/ctl_00038_1
    [Google Scholar]
/content/journals/10.1386/ctl_00038_1
Loading
/content/journals/10.1386/ctl_00038_1
Loading

Data & Media loading...

This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was a success
Invalid data
An error occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error
Please enter a valid_number test