Global citizenship and global citizenship education as the goals of sustainable development

Abstract

The world we live in today is becoming increasingly interdependent - economically, politically, culturally and in terms of ecology. In a context of globalization and growing interconnections and interdependencies emerged a need to develop and spread an ideology which emphasizes that a person, first and foremost, is a member of the global community of people. The article gives an account of the concept of global citizenship, analyses the features that are inherent to the „citizen of the world”. Finally, the importance of global citizenship education is emphasised for the achievement of the sustainable development goals