Global Citizenship, Common Wealth and Uncommon Citizenships

This set of essays critically analyze global citizenship by bringing together leading ideas about citizenship and the commons in this time that both needs and resists a global perspective on issues and relations. Education plays a significant role in how we come to address these issues and this volume will contribute to ensuring that equity, global citizenship, and the common wealth provide platforms from which we might engage in transformational, collective work.

Lynette Shultz, PhD, is Associate Dean, International, and Director of the Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. She has published widely on the topics of education policy, democracy, social justice, and global citizenship with a particular focus on decolonialism and the geo-politics of knowledge. She teaches courses on the topics of internationalization, global governance and education policy, and global citizenship education at the University of Alberta and the Universidade Catolica de Brasilia where she is an Adjunct Associate Professor.

Thashika Pillay has a PhD in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Alberta. She has extensive teaching experience in K-12 and higher education, having taught in Canada, Australia, and Ethiopia. Her scholarship focuses on issues related to educational policy, migration studies, critical and anticolonial feminisms, community engagement and anti-racist pedagogies. Her work engages issues of social and cognitive justice, critical global citizenship and Indigenous knowledge systems and aims to recentre marginalized knowledges and perspectives.