Discourses of Globalisation, Active Citizenship and Education

Joseph Zajda is a professor at the Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University (Melbourne Campus). He specialises in globalisation and education policy reforms, social justice, history education and values education. He has written and edited 45 books and over 150 book chapters and articles on globalisation and education policy, higher education and curriculum reforms. He is also the editor of the 24-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research (Springer, 2009 & 2021). Recent publications include: Zajda, J (Ed). (2020a). Globalisation, ideology and neo-liberal higher education reform. Dordrecht: Springer. Zajda, J. (Ed). (2020b). Human rights education globally. Dordrecht: Springer. Zajda, J. (Ed). (2020c). Globalisation, Ideology and Education Reforms: Emerging paradigms. Dordrecht: Springer. Zajda, J. (2018). He is an elected fellow of the Australian College of Educators (FACE).

Anatoli Rapoport is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Purdue University College of Education. His research interests include citizenship education, international and global education, comparative education, and application of constructivist theory in education. He is past chair of the Citizenship and Democratic Education SIG at Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Board member of National Council for the Social Studies International Assembly, and editor of Journal of International Social Studies. He is recipient of the Curriculum and Instruction Discovery Award and Outstanding Leadership in Globalization Award. He holds honorary doctorate (Honoris Causa) from Academy of Science of Moldova. At Purdue, Dr. Rapoport teaches social studies methods courses and graduate seminars on international and comparative education. He was guest editor of special issues of Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education (with Serhiy Kovalchuk); Education, Citizenship and Social Justice (with Miri Yemini), and Research in Social Sciences and Technology. He is the author of four books: Fields Unknown (2007), Civic Education in Contemporary Global Society (with Andrey Borshevsky -2009), Competing Frameworks: Global and National in Citizenship Education (2018), and Democratic Citizenship in Non-Western Contexts (with Serhiy Kovalchuk - 2019). 

Citizenship education: A Global perspective.- Engaging with others: The fluctuating pathway to global active citizenship for educators.- Global Citizenship Education for Anti-Globalist Communities.- Widening the aperture of social studies scholarship: racial and colonial legacies in global citizenship and human rights education.- Preparing Future Global Citizenship Educators: Navigating a Contested Field from Theory to Practice.- Teaching global citizenship in higher education: Social integration with ethnic minorities in Hong Kong.- Charting the Global Education Terrain: Teacher Drives and Roadblocks.- Expedition Inside Culture: Theory-into-Practice in a Study Abroad to Ireland.- Research trends in active citizenship education.