The Civilizational Transformation and the Crisis of Global Democracy : Its Meaning and Implications for Global Citizenship Education

This paper examines what the era of civilizational transformation and the crisis of global democracy mean, and what it means for global citizenship education, from the perspective of setting the ‘direction of discussion’ in the future. At this time, it is argued that the era of civilizational transformation requires the reconstruction of the subject, value, and system, which are the core elements that constitute civilization, but the crisis of global democracy brought abouth the death of politics, which is the practice of civilization transformation, and the citizens who are its subjects. Accordingly, it is argued that future global citizenship education should go beyond focusing on the establishment of educational models and development of techniques that are value-neutral and exclude politics. And at this time, this paper propose to shed light on global citizenship education practitioners as subjects who share awareness of the crisis and seek educational visions and strategies based on exploration of their ‘transformative educational practice theory’.