Lifelong Learn. 2013, 3, 7-25

https://doi.org/10.11118/lifele201303027

Global Development Education—The Way Towards a Global Citizenship and to a Responsible Acting on the Global Market

Eva Svitačová1, Anna Mravcová1, Tímea Zaťková2

1Slovenská poľnohospodárska univerzita v Nitre, Fakulta ekonomiky a manažmentu, Katedra spoločenských vied, Tr. Andreja Hlinku 2, 949 76 Nitra, Slovenská republika
2Slovenská poľnohospodárska univerzita v Nitre, Fakulta ekonomiky a manažmentu, Katedra pedagogiky a psychológie, Tr. Andreja Hlinku 2, 949 76 Nitra, Slovenská republika

The phenomenon of global development education, which can be understood as a tool to achieve complex knowledge of development issues and interdependencies between local and global problems, is becoming part of new curricular documents. In order to achieve a more complex training of future economic actors acting responsibly in the society in which they carry out their professional activities and take on global responsibility, it is important to implement this phenomenon into the school curriculum at economic faculties. The aim is to educate global citizens and at the same time responsible experts for the global market.

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