Agency and embodied experience in Global Citizenship Education

Abstract

This work focuses on agency in the framework of Global Citizenship Education (GCE). The aims of Law 92/2019 are part of this broad concept. In this context, promoting active and participatory citizenship behaviours requires competent agents and educational models sensitive to this perspective. This article aims to identify some essential theoretical elements of agency that can corroborate educational models. At the same time, these elements are placed in dialogue with the phenomenological approach and embodied approaches to highlight the role of the body in the foundation of agency. The text is divided into the following sections: definition of agency; es-sential elements - the phenomenological approach and the role of the body.
Finally, the body is proposed as a central dimension in GCE, to reestablish perceptibility and transparency in formal and informal educational models of active and situated learning.