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For a long time, citizenship education was understood as educating people to become responsible citizens of a particularly country or state. With the new situation characterized by the Age of Anthropocene, a rethinking of the very idea of education is needed. In particular, it is necessary to focus on the human condition as an elementary component of this education. More specifically, it is a matter of merging the concepts of global citizenship education and education for sustainable development, as well as human rights and peace education and (eco-) feminist education, in such a way that something new emerges, something that looks beyond the individual pedagogies without erasing the specific approaches in the process. This entails a twofold task: striving for global citizenship, i.e. solidarity among all people on Earth, while at the same time realizing planetary citizenship, i.e. solidarity with all beings in the biosphere, our basis of life.
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Wintersteiner, W. (2023). Citizenship Education. In: Wallenhorst, N., Wulf, C. (eds) Handbook of the Anthropocene. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25910-4_227
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