This section, first, gives an overview of the history of global education with a special emphasis on its evolution in Europe and on the definition of the key terms which are used throughout the book. It goes on to describe what is meant by global citizenship education, presents some criticism of the global citizenship education framework, and emphasises the role of criticality in later frameworks (in Section 2.1.2.2). Finally, the definition and the description of the global competence framework can be found at the end of this section (2.1.3.3).