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[ Plenary Session II ] ‘Imperative : Sense of Global Citizenship and Social Responsibility’
[Moderator] Joo-hyun KIM, President, Hyundai Research Institute
[Presenter] Jeffrey Pfeffer, Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford University
[Presenter] Franci Phelan, CHRO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
[Discussant] Joseph Polisi, President, The Juilliard School
[Discussant] Tony Little, Headmaster, Eton College
[ Description ]
How to best educate students in a fast changing, shrinking world is a debate that is very much alive. Even though citizenship and social responsibility related education occurs, often it is reduced to a formal or ritualistic level such as voting, paying taxes, saluting the flag, recycling etc. Issues such as global justice, environment and human rights are, for the most part, not major components of the curriculum in schools and are still given little shrift in higher education institutions. Where global issues are addressed, they are often approached through the biased perspectives of ethnocentrism, national chauvinism, and global economic dominance. As the conventional thinking of the schooling purpose is to educate students for the competitive global workplace, there is an alternative to such thinking that the real purpose of education should be to prepare students to become stewards of the earth and participants in democracy for global social justice. The world has become a place at where information and capital careen around the world at breathtaking speeds, environmental problems are planetary in scope, and wars and hurricanes and human rights violations from around the world saturate the television screens daily. Under these circumstances, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and duties of individuals as global citizens are growing in importance. Perhaps it is time to assess how we are educating children to cope with these new realities. In this session the speakers will touch upon the meaning of social responsibility and the role of global citizens and how education and policies will impact strategic contribution to society as well as on the partnership between the business and the civil society.
