This lecture would prove particularly useful and life changing to teenagers, specifically those about transiting from secondary school to university.

1. THE IMPERATIVES OF GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
Dr. Wisdom Enang
wisdom_enang@yahoo.co.uk
+2348173555667, +2348163223600

2. Contents
Ice breaker activity
What is global citizenship?
Who is a global citizen?
Why is global citizenship important?
How do you become a global citizen?
Challenges on the path to becoming a global citizen?
 Known Knowns (things we know that we know)
 Dealing with the competition?
 Going beyond the status quo?
 Dealing with changes?
 Known Unknowns (things we now know we don't know)
 Developing your emotional intelligence and managing people?
 Understanding the bigger picture to life?
 Unknown Unknowns (things we do not know we don't know)
 Understanding failure as a necessity to sustainable success?
 Life as a Chinese bamboo tree.
Summary
Known
Knowns
Known Unknowns
Unknown Unknowns
Popularised by the former US Secretary
of State for Deference: Donald
Rumsfeld in February 2002

3. • What is global citizenship?
 It is a sense of belonging to a broader community, beyond national boundaries, that
emphasizes our common humanity and draws on the interconnectedness between
peoples as well as between the local and the global. Global citizenship is based on the
universal values of human rights, democracy, non-discrimination and diversity. It is about
civic actions that promote a better world and future.
(UNESCO, 2016)
• Who is a global citizen?
A global Citizen is someone who:
 is aware of the wider world and has a sense of their own role as a world citizen
 respects and values diversity
 has an understanding of how the world works
 participates in the community at a range of levels, from the local to the global
 is willing to act to make the world a more equitable and sustainable place
 takes responsibility for their actions
 is aware of, and cares about, the problems of people
 views events from the perspectives of others
 respects diversity and human rights of all people
 appreciates all people
(OXFAM, 1997)

4. climate change conflicts gender inequality environmental degradation
terrorism tension among
populations
how to build peaceful and
sustainable societies
management of equitable
natural resources
• Why is global citizenship important?
The need to tackle global challenges:
The need to promote:
Global Awareness:
a. Greater awareness of personal cultural norms and how they shape views and perspectives;
b. Deeper knowledge of the interconnectedness of local, global, international, and intercultural issues, trends,
and systems;
Global Perspective:
a. Greater cultural literacy;
b. Enhanced problem solving skills by integrating a global perspective;
c. Deeper multi-perspective analysis of local, global, international, and intercultural problems;
Global Engagement:
a. Increased cross-cultural interaction;
b. Deepened desire to proffer solutions to global and local problems;
d. Heightened ability to work effectively in diverse environments;

5. • How do you become a global citizen?
1. Educate yourself in three core conceptual dimensions
Video 1
Activity 1: What are the lessons learnt from
Video 1?

6. 2. Be a good ambassador of your country within the global community
3. Recognize the global part of who you are
• Examine your own life, recognize its global dimension, and reflect on how that affects
your view of the world.
4. Expand your definition of community
5. Discover the values of the world community and always be ready to contribute to same
• Human rights
• Religious pluralism
• Protection of the environment
• Poverty reduction
• Humanitarian assistance
• Preservation of the world’s cultural diversity.
6. Become aware of global polices and programs
7. Nurture a lifestyle that supports sustainable global development
• Adopt environmentally responsible behaviours in the ways we live.
• How do you become a global citizen?

7. • Challenges on the path to becoming a global citizen?
 Known Knowns
 Dealing with the competition?
 Going beyond the status quo?
 Do what you feel passionate about
 Dream big and work hard to achieve those dreams
 Have a clear vision of what needs to be achieved
 Set realistic goals
 Go after your goals with hard work, discipline and consistency
 Understand your weaknesses and always approach a problem from an area of
strength
 Don’t just inspire to succeed, inspire to make a difference
Video 2
Activity 2: What are the lessons learnt
from Video 2?

8. • Challenges on the path to becoming a global citizen?
 Known Knowns
 Dealing with changes?
 The “anticipatory anxiety” that we experience in the midst of important life
changes can be emotionally paralyzing.
Accepting the change
 Recognize that changes will always
happen (it is inevitable and
essential)
 Expect internal resistance to
change but avoid being nervous
 Determine what you can and
cannot control
 You may not be in control of
the changes in life but you
are in control of your
response to those changes
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 Analyse the situation.
 What has changed and how does it impact you?
 Develop coping strategies that are best suited to
deal with the circumstances.
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 Be patient, not passive
 Patiently accept change while
at the same time actively
pursuing strategies to reorient
yourself to the new
circumstances

9. • Challenges on the path to becoming a global citizen?
 Known Knowns
 Dealing with changes?
Adjusting to change
 Give yourself time to change and
undergo the required psychological
metamorphosis.
 Focus on small, present things.
Take note of your progress and
your roadblocks
 Specify your strategies
 Accept failures and false starts
 Don’t judge yourself too harshly for slip-ups or
backslides; rather, keep yourself focused on the
positive steps you have made and will make next
 Avoid making decisions out
of fear.
 Try to address your fears
about the changes coming
your way rather than
avoiding them and seek
support where necessary.
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 Increase your sense of control
in small ways
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10. • Challenges on the path to becoming a global citizen?
 Known Unknowns
 Developing your emotional intelligence and managing people?
Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to:
 Recognize, understand and manage our own emotions.
 Recognize, understand and influence the emotions of others.
Why is EI important? : Psychologists generally agree that among the ingredients for success, IQ
counts for roughly 10% (at best 25%); the rest depends on everything else — including EI.
Understanding the 5 characteristics of emotional intelligence (EI):
1. Self-awareness:
 Emotional awareness: your ability to recognize your own emotions and their effects.
 Self-confidence: sureness about your self-worth and capabilities.
2. Self-regulation:
 Self-control: managing disruptive impulses.
 Trustworthiness: maintaining standards of honesty and integrity.
 Conscientiousness: taking responsibility for your own performance.
 Adaptability: handling change with flexibility.
 Innovation: being open to new ideas.

11. • Challenges on the path to becoming a global citizen?
 Known Unknowns
 Developing your emotional intelligence and managing people?
3. Motivation:
 Achievement drive: your constant strive to improve or meet a standard of excellence.
 Initiative: readying yourself to act on opportunities.
 Optimism: pursuing goals persistently despite obstacles and setbacks.
4. Empathy:
 Developing others: sensing what others need to progress and strengthen their abilities.
 Leveraging diversity: cultivating opportunities through diverse people.
 Understanding others: discerning the feelings behind the needs and wants of others.
5. Social skills:
 Influence: wielding effective persuasion tactics.
 Communication: sending clear messages.
 Leadership: inspiring and guiding groups and people.
 Change catalyst: initiating or managing change.
 Conflict management: understanding, negotiating and resolving disagreements.
 Building bonds: nurturing instrumental relationships.
 Collaboration and cooperation: working with others toward shared goals.

12. • Challenges on the path to becoming a global citizen?
 Known Unknowns
 Understanding the bigger picture to life?
 The sudden freedom
Freedom
Consequencesof
actions
Where are you on
this graph now: A
or B?
A
B
• Transition period between teenage-hood
and adulthood
• Defining / validation period for lifelong
personal values and principles
Video 3
Activity 3: What are the lessons
learnt from Video 3?

13. • Challenges on the path to becoming a global citizen?
 Unknown Unknowns
 Understanding failure as a necessity to sustainable success?
 Life as a Chinese bamboo tree.
Video 4
Activity 4: What are the lessons learnt from
Video 4?
Video 5
Activity 5: What are the lessons learnt
from Video 5?
• Summary