What is Awareness of Global Issues

This chapter studies the three educational perspectives (student interest in learning about other cultures, awareness of global issues, and attitudes toward immigrants), their interrelationship, and whether they predict social justice and respect for people from other cultures. Empirical data were collected as a part of the PISA 2018 large-scale assessment. Students in those 26 OECD countries that participated in the global competence section of PISA 2018 were used as a sample (n = 180,114). The empirical results indicate that respect for people from other cultures can be supported by promoting student interest in learning about other cultures, their awareness of global issues, and their attitudes toward immigrants. Hypothesis testing revealed statistically significant relationships between constructs.