More and more educators from Jesuit schools around the world are in the process of introducing and integrating Global Citizenship Education into their classrooms. Over the past two or three years it has become more common to see Global Citizenship taskforces, working groups, cohorts and coordinators in Jesuit schools and Provinces. We are excited about this development and also conscious of the need to support teachers and leadership in the continuous learning, reflection and implementation process on this important topic.

In our global community you can find this support by diving into the concept of  Global Citizenship Education from an Ignatian perspective.

One way to do this is by sharing your questions, learnings and/or reflections through global conversations. These are not just online conversations where you share your opinions, the advantage is that you get to explore the Global Citizenship concept and co-create ideas for its implementation with teachers from other Jesuit schools who live and teach in different countries, but who share the same Jesuit Mission and Ignatian Identity. This is what makes these global conversations so valuable for us as a global community. Global Citizenship Education is now more relevant and important than ever for our schools and more specifically for the benefit of our students.

We invite you to dive in and participate in an existing conversation, or indeed create your own. Let’s continue discerning the importance of integrating Global Citizenship Education into our work in the classroom in the context of our world today and through our Ignatian perspective! Let’s keep renewing and innovating together!

Here are some Global Citizenship conversations that are happening in our global community. Let us know what you think and if these conversations are helpful for your school’s Global Citizenship goals.

How would you define Global Citizenship?

Our global community is sharing their own definitions of the term “Global Citizenship,” from our unique Jesuit perspective!  How would you define the term?  Even just a few sentences would be exciting to see! What are the similarities and differences between your definition and the perspectives others have shared?

School Leaders – How do you Introduce Global Citizenship Education?

As more and more schools are introducing Global Citizenship to their schools we would love to hear from School Leaders, Global Citizenship Coordinators and Education Delegates, how you go about introducing Global Citizenship to your faculty, how you integrate it into your curriculum and what advice you have for people just starting on this journey? Let’s help each other out!

Global Citizenship  – Questions and Answers

What is Global Citizenship? What do we expect from our students and from our school communities? How can we animate the global dimension of our Jesuit schools through Global Citizenship? What opportunities do we have in the area of Global Citizenship as a global network of Jesuit schools?

Global Citizenship Workshop

Does anyone have ideas or suggestions for topics and activities for students to discuss Global Citizenship?

We are one humanity. Every human being, every people, each culture that contributes to human diversity is part of this one, varied, rich and interdependent humanity.”  Fr. General Arturo Sosa SJ