Soft versus critical global citizenship education

This article aims to introduce the argument for critical global citizenship education. It is divided into three parts.  In the first part the author presents Andrew Dobson’s arguments in relation to the grounds for global citizenship and his critique of the notions of the ‘global citizen’ and ‘interdependence’.  In the second part, Andreotti presents Gayatri Spivak’s analysis of some cultural effects of colonialism in the relationship/assumptions of North and South.  In the last part, she compares and contrasts soft and critical citizenship education in general terms.