Educating a 'Global Citizen'

Eminent South African business leader and UFS Chancellor, Professor Bonang Mohale, will join Professor Petersen to unwrap the role Universities can play in creating a ‘Global Citizen’ mindset to effect material change in a constantly evolving and turbulent international world. 

How do Universities produce research, and graduate alumni who go out into the  world, to drive and reflect the bedrock value of Global Citizenship namely that of mutual respect, for others, for all creatures, and the environment which sustains us all?

A University education can be a powerful way to push the ‘reset’ button on the baggage of upbringing and our histories - personal, cultural, national, racial – which shape our world view. 

Universities can promote informed self-reflection, curiosity, and tolerance as a driving force in how we shape our realities, understand our prejudices, promote tolerance, and animate life in a better world.  Professors Petersen and Mohale will reflect on how Universities can accelerate and respond with greater agility to this challenge.

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