Hi Mark. I have just finished reading this draft which I very much enjoyed. I think it is very important work and deserving of a wide audience.

There are a number of suggestions for consideration. One is my concern about some of your claims, which don't seem to be backed by evidence (such as that LGC can achieve a 'paradigm shift' when your request at the end of the paper is for people to engage in projects to check out the applicability of LGC. The claim about a paradigm shift would seem to be a little premature. I would also very much have wanted to know how LGC worked in your project, but there wasn't much detail on that. Is it possible in the next iteration of the paper to insert a few examples?

As usual, when I review papers for EJOLTS, I've track changed the loaded-up document and there are lots of reflections, questions and a couple of suggestions of references you might like to track down at some point although not for this article I think. You won't have time...they are really just resources I have come across that I think might take your wider work forward.

I look forward to the next iteration and hope that my comments will be helpful as you work on that.

Warm regards

Pip

Review posted on behalf of Jerry Allender

The article by Mark Pott's is an exciting exploration into the biggest issue facing humankind. In essence, how are we going to learn to get along--those near to us all the way to those who are farthest away. Living Global Citizenship and the projects it envisions is extraordinarily helpful as a foundation for thinking about how to begin and continue as we get more involved. Not only is this a theory-based exploration, the perspective of two contrasting educational programs are in the mix, helping us to stay focused on the practical issues that are involved. The author's first-hand knowledge of educational programs in South Africa and the UK and the differences they illuminate enliven the story as it unfolds.

We learn about the roles of mutual negotiation, living citizenship, and the meaning of deep appreciation that can come about through critical engagement of participants. Pott's thinking and experience provide the reader with opportunities to imagine cross-cultural engagement within one's own culture and that of others. The recognition of the value of the "touching of hearts” is brought to the foreground--a term so unfamiliar in the context of scholarly studies. Yet here, we can clearly see so how it is missing.

I am reminded of the work of John Wall discussed in Ethics in Light of Childhood (2010). The foundation of his ethics begins with an understanding of creativity, the expansion of narratives, and response to otherness. Pott takes these notions and builds them into an approach to global living citizenship. No less, for me he recognizes the concepts and experience or Jonathan Lear's book, Radical Hope (2006). Here we see ethics in the face of cultural devastation creatively addressed: where both despair and hope intwine as they do in this article.

This is a well-written discussion of significant issues that articulately unfold in contexts not unlike all of us must address. There is much more needed than is reported in this article. Some I am sure appears in the book version of these ideas and examples, and still more left for us to develop out of our own creativity and expanding narratives. Local and global, everyone's context, Pott's work enjoins us with his knowledge, thinking, and feelings to enhance our own concerns.

I recommend it for publication in EJOLTS. No modifications are needed.