Internationalisation of school education develops students’ global citizenship, educating them to actively participate in our culturally diverse societies and contribute to a more peaceful and democratic culture. Developing global citizenship (universalism) values is one crucial part of this process. 

See how to foster global citizenship values and behaviour, partly through including international and intercultural aspects in your school. 

For a quick introduction and application, watch our short animated video clip here:

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‘What are values’ provides an introduction to value theory and the leading values model, namely the Schwartz model of values. 

Values Toolkit provides resources on how to foster the development of global citizenship values and behaviour in your classroom and school community. 

The intercultural-learning.eu website offers resources for teachers and school staff in a whole-school approach and is based on a conceptual model of competences developed by the Council of Europe. Competences consist of values, attitudes, skills, knowledge and critical understanding. The values model focuses on how to encourage three values that will educate learners to participate effectively in a culture of democracy and live peacefully together in culturally diverse democratic societies.

This webpage was created in 2025 by Professor Anat Bardi and her team (Rebekah Cooper) on the basis of hers and others’ research findings,  under a project which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The copyright of this webpage belongs to Royal Holloway and Bedford New College under the creative commons CC BY-NC-ND licence.