Editorial introduction: Re-envisioning education in a globalizing world

• Main Author: SAITO, Hiro
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: cosmopolitics; global citizenship; happiness; interbeing; social justice; university; Educational Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3095; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4352/viewcontent/Editorial_Introduction__PV.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This special issue focuses on education as a crucial factor mediating the relationship between youth and globalization. Specifically, four papers collectively explore how education can be re-envisioned from the following vantage point: the use of technology to foreground the fundamentally interconnected nature of today’s world; the help of mindfulness to deepen the awareness of such interconnectedness and cultivate acommitment to collective well-being; the role of activism to produce more critical knowledge and transformational solidarity for social justice on a global scale; at the same time, the necessity of reflexivity to examine one’s own ontological and epistemological assumptions before attempting any educational intervention. I argue that this vantage point helps re-envision the existing institutions and practices of education toencourage young people in a globalizing world to learn to live a happy life together by embracing their pluriversal coexistence.