Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor of Education, presented a plenary lecture titled, “Global Citizenship Education: Hyper Globalist, Skeptic and Transformationist Agendas,” at the 2014 conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), hosted by Brock University in Ontario, Canada.
Associate Dean for Global Programs at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, Torres attended the conference as a guest of honor and was invited to sign the Association of Canadian Deans of Education (ACDE) Accord on the Internationalization of Education. Focusing on institutions of higher education, the Accord seeks to stimulate discussion of critical issues in the internationalization of education, and to support the representation of marginalized individuals, groups, and communities in education. In Canada, individual provinces oversee education through regional ministries of education rather than a department formed by the national government. The ACDE Accord formalizes principles and beliefs on issues of internationalization across all Canadian provinces.
“I consider the ACDE Accord for Internationalization a great step forward in the context of building community and global citizenship education worldwide,” said Torres. “It is a truly social democratic document that will play a key role in the way Canadian universities work in internationalization.”
This article was originally published in Ampersand.
