Mattig / Hirose / Wigger World Citizenship Education in Times of Crises

German and Japanese Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-662-73026-3
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 173 Seiten

Reihe: J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)

The book develops the concept of , drawing on German and Japanese traditions of educational thought to offer new perspectives on cosmopolitanism and global citizenship. It argues that education must prepare future generations for international cooperation and solidarity in facing crises like war, migration, and climate change. Unlike , which is tied to problematic notions of globalization, uses the idea of (German: ' , Japanese: ' ) as a relational framework linking humans, culture, society, and nature. Based on a German-Japanese collaboration, the eleven chapters explore empirical, historical, and theoretical approaches to world citizen education for educators working in international contexts.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mattig, Ruprecht

Hirose, Yuzo

Wigger, Lothar

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Yuzo Hirose, Ruprecht Mattig, Lothar Wigger: Introduction: Why World Citizenship Education?.- Caroline Bossong, Meryem Aydogan, Lothar Wigger: Visualization of the memory of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima: a contribution to World Citizenship Education?.- Mayu Ishida: Rethinking the Role of Picture Books in the light of World Citizenship Education.- Yuzo Hirose: Starting from the World: Establishing World Citizenship Education.- Uwe Uhlendorff: Alexander von Humboldt’s nature painting and its influence on World Citizenship Education.- Xing Shuyu: Cosmopolitanism in Karatani Kojin and its implication for education.- Hiromi Masek: Contextualising World Citizenship Education in German-Japanese Pedagogy. An Example of the Reception of Motomori Kimura’s work.- Johannes Drerup: Educating or Governing the World? On the Idea of a Global Educational Canon.- Jeremy Rappleye: Apophatic Cosmopolitanism? Beyond the Cataphatic Confidence of Contemporary Concepts of ‘World’ Citizen.- Marvin Giehl: The interspecies crisis as a neglected part of the World Crisis: Unraveling pedagogical dynamics that endanger both human and nonhuman animals.- Yuho Goto: Reconstructing a ‘World View’ (Weltanschauung) through Education—From the Perspective of Psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud.- Ruprecht Mattig: The sustainability dilemma of traveling. World Citizenship Education considered from the perspective of Pedagogical Anthropology.- Kazuya Yanagida: Liberal Constraints on Promoting World Citizenship: From von Humboldt to Rawls and Beyond.

Über Autor(innen)

Ruprecht Mattig is a professor for systematic educational studies and methodology of educational research at TU Dortmund University. From 2008 to 2012, he was an assistant professor in the research project Revitalizing Education for Dynamic Hearts and Minds at Kyoto University, Japan.

Yuzo Hirose is an associate professor for the Philosophy and History of Education Course at Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, Japan.

Lothar Wigger is university professor (re-tired) at the Institute for General Education and Vocational Education at the TU Dortmund University.