RURAL GCE NETWORK

It is no secret that the world is changing fast - society, culture, and nations are all shifting and conceptions of citizenship are shifting with them. In this quickly changing environment, it is important that education keeps up with developments, and helps produce students that practice an engaged and relevant model of citizenship. But in order to do this, global citizenship education itself must be relevant, up to date, and engaging. This is particularly true in rural areas, where some evidence shows that global citizenship education is less fully implemented, particularly in comparison to urban counterparts... The Rural GCE project intends to help address the imbalance, where it exists, between urban and rural areas and how citizenship is taught and approached in these areas. It will research and consider rurality and rural issues in the chosen countries, issues around global citizenship education, how it is taught, and how all these concepts might intersect. Once these issues..

Also known as: Rural GCE