Guo, Enze;
Zhang, Peng;
(2025)
Patriotic global citizenship? Reinterpreting
insights from university EFL teachers in China.
Human Rights Education Review
pp. 1-14.
10.1080/25355406.2025.2553816.
(In press).
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Abstract
This study investigates how Chinese university English as a Foreign Language teachers conceptualise global citizenship in the context of global polycrisis and China’s rising international prominence. Drawing on phenomenological interviews with 25 educators across multiple institutions, this research identifies a new and distinct orientation, termed patriotic global citizenship. This orientation reframes global citizenship through a state-centric lens, aligning global engagement with national priorities and grounding global responsibility in national identity. Teachers viewed the development of students’ global competence as a strategic means of advancing China’s international presence. Rather than adapting existing Western models, this orientation constitutes a reinterpretation of global citizenship itself. This study contributes by broadening typologies of global citizenship education and showing how national political agendas can reshape its meaning and enactment. Crucially, it raises concerns about the marginalisation of human rights education and the narrowing of space for democratic, critical, justice-oriented engagement in globally themed pedagogies.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Patriotic global citizenship? Reinterpreting insights from university EFL teachers in China |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/25355406.2025.2553816 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/25355406.2025.2553816 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Global citizenship education, patriotic education, English as a foreign language, teacher perspectives, China |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10213164 |
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