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Educating global citizens in business schools

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Purpose – Global citizenship, social responsibility and sustainability are constructs increasingly
used in business schools. Yet, there is no widely accepted definition or conceptualization of the global
citizen, nor is there strong evidence of how the global citizen is effectively translated into university
ethos, culture and practice. This paper aims to conceptualize the global citizen in higher education
broadly and more specifically in regard to business schools.
Design/methodology/approach – International higher education, social science and business
literature has been reviewed to present an integrated understanding of the global citizen;
contextualized to higher education generally and business schools specifically.
Findings – It is argued that the global citizen, viewed through a moral and transformative
cosmopolitan lens, provides an alternative to the rhetoric frequently paid to the construct. This paper
describes “global citizen learning” underpinned by the social imaginary, relationality and reflexivity.
These virtues equip the students’ global business mindset for complexity and ambiguity.
Research limitations/implications – The interdisciplinary literature reviewed in this paper
brings a focus to moral reasoning, sensitivity and values-based teaching. These aspects create
new ways for the global citizen to be more explicitly integrated into business ethos and curricula.
Practical implications – Global citizen learning provides the “conceptual glue”, needed to link
social responsibility, sustainability and ethical principles to business curricula. Also, the paper
outlines how “global citizen learning” can be utilized in existing curricula from a practical perspective.
Originality/value – This paper discusses values and moral reasoning in business education. It is
proposed that the global citizen conceptualized through moral and transformative cosmopolitanism
provides a humanistic buffer to the neoliberal growth paradigm.

Keywords Social responsibility, Sustainability, Reflexivity, Curricula, Moral, Pedagogy,Cosmopolitanism, Global citizen, Relationality, Social imaginary, Virtues

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Journal of International Education in Business

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: Emerald Group., 2014

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Journal of International Education in Business Vol. 7 No. 1, 2014 pp. 72-84

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English

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