Beyond Emotion: Developing Resilience-Based Global Citizenship Education through Disaster Experience

Disasters in contemporary society transcend national borders, have global impacts, and are disseminated worldwide in real time through the media. The transnational nature of disasters necessitates educational approaches grounded in global citizenship. Traditional emotion-centered global citizenship education has limitations, as it remains confined to transient emotional responses and superficial engagement. While mediated disaster experiences evoke mourning, compassion, and empathy, they also present challenges such as emotional commodification and compassion fatigue. This study proposes a resilience-centered model of global citizenship education to overcome these limitations. For resilience-based education, specific implementation strategies include: developing sustained emotions through sharing disaster memories, strengthening critical citizenship through disaster literacy enhancement, and improving practical capabilities through multi-level participation across school, community, and global society.