Education for global citizenship: the role of universities in the maintenance of civilization in the context of late modernity and globalization Some comments on the Mexican case

摘要

Based on some broad reflections on the impact of globalization and late modernity that take place in the world, and putting them together with the institutional objectives of some universities in Mexico, this paper, with a global citizenship frame, attempts to make a proposal that could be adaptable as a part of the foundations of a university education that has as a final goal the maintenance and development of human citizenship, as an answer to the decadence and social fragmentation that we currently undergo.