Educating Global Citizens in Colleges and Universities

Educating Global Citizens in Colleges and Universities
Author: Peter N. Stearns
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2009-01-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135855218

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This book provides distinctive analysis of the full range of expressions in global education at a crucial time, when international competition rises, tensions with American foreign policy both complicate and motivate new activity, and a variety of innovations are taking shape. Citing best practices at a variety of institutions, the book provides practical coverage and guidance in the major aspects of global education, including curriculum, study abroad, international students, collaborations and branch campuses, while dealing as well with management issues and options. The book is intended to guide academic administrators and students in higher education, at a point when international education issues increasingly impinge on all aspects of college or university operation. The book deals as well with core principles that must guide global educational endeavors, and with problems and issues in the field in general as well as in specific functional areas. Challenges of assessment also win attention. Higher education professionals will find that this book serves as a manageable and provocative guide, in one of the most challenging and exciting areas of American higher education today.

Global Citizenship Education

Global Citizenship Education
Author: Eva Aboagye
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2021
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1487506376

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Drawing on contemporary global events, this book highlights how global citizenship education can be used to critically educate about the complexity and repressive nature of global events and our collective role in creating a just world.

The Handbook of Practice and Research in Study Abroad

The Handbook of Practice and Research in Study Abroad
Author: Ross Lewin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 991
Release: 2010-11-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135852332

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Co-published with the Association for American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) If we are all becoming global citizens, what then are our civic responsibilities? Colleges and universities across the United States have responded to this question by making the development of global citizens part of their core mission. A key strategy for realizing this goal is study abroad. After all, there may be no better way for students to acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to become effective change-agents in international contexts. The Handbook of Practice and Research in Study Abroad is a comprehensive survey of the field. Each chapter eloquently conveys an enthusiasm for study abroad alongside a critical assessment of the most up-to-date research, theory and practice. This contributed volume brings together expert academics, senior administrators, practitioners of study abroad, and policy makers from across the United States, Canada and other part of the world, who meticulously address the following questions: What do we mean by global citizenship and global competence? What are the philosophical, pedagogical and practical challenges facing institutions as they endeavor to create global citizens? How is study abroad and global citizenship compatible with the role of the academy? What are the institutional challenges to study abroad, including those related to ethics, infrastructure, finances, accessibility, and quality control? Which study abroad programs can be called successful? The Handbook of Practice and Research in Study Abroad is an indispensable reference volume for scholars, higher education faculty, study abroad professionals, policy makers, and the academic libraries that serve these audiences. It is also appropriate for a wide range of courses in Higher Education Master’s and Ph.D. Programs.

Empowering Global Citizens

Empowering Global Citizens
Author: Fernando Reimers
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2016-07-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781533594549

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How do we help students work effectively with others from diverse cultural backgrounds? How do we help them understand the world? How do we prepare them for work and life in an era of globalization, volatility, and uncertainty? Empowering Global Citizens offers educators and parents compelling answers to those questions. This book presents The World Course, a curriculum on global citizenship education designed to equip students with the competencies they need to thrive and contribute to sustainable development in an era of globalization. Drawing on curriculum mapping this book offers a coherent and rigorous set of instructional units to support deep learning of twenty-first-century competencies that develop agency, imagination, confidence, and the skills to navigate the complexity of our times. Drawing on a rich conceptual framework of global education, The World Course scaffolds the development of global competency drawing on project-based learning and other pedagogies that support personalization. The course expands children's horizons, helping them understand the world in which they live in all its complexity from kindergarten to high school. This is done through learning activities at the zone for proximal development for each age group, with activities that foster student agency and a growth mindset.

Educating Citizens for Global Awareness

Educating Citizens for Global Awareness
Author: Nel Noddings
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780807745342

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Educating students about their roles as global citizens is a challenge that has taken on increasing importance in recent years. In this volume, prominent educators join Nel Noddings to address the issue of global citizenship, what this means, and how it should shape curriculum and teaching in K-12 classrooms. Features: frameworks for educating global citizens, including building community and mutual respect, creating social responsibility, instilling an appreciation for diversity, promoting emotional literacy, and managing and resolving conflict: practical suggestions to help teachers enrich their classrooms with global content; advice for teaching better global attitudes throughout the curriculum, including social studies, science, literature, and math classes; and diverse perspectives by leading educators and scholars on global citizenship and its value to education and community.

Educating Global Citizens: The Internationalization of Park University, Kansas City, Missouri

Educating Global Citizens: The Internationalization of Park University, Kansas City, Missouri
Author: Olga Ganzen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2007
Genre:
ISBN:

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This qualitative case study examines a systematic approach to internationalization for a middle-sized, comprehensive private university in the United States of America. The focus is a descriptive study of the unique momentum at the beginning of organizational transformation---the comprehensive internationalization of a university as a system. The study explores organizational strategies, compares four colleges within the university on the undergraduate level, examines goals and specific strategies, and identifies effective delivery methods for global citizenship education. The literature review reflects the conceptual framework of the internationalization of American higher education with specific elements that affect both the process and its components. The conceptual framework includes internationalization through global learning outcomes, global citizenship education competencies, components of comprehensive internationalization, and essential steps for a systematic approach to organizational transformation. Data for the case study were collected from 30 interviews with university administrators, college administrators, faculty, American students, international students, and community representatives from four colleges, using formal, open-ended interview protocols. Purposeful sampling was used so participants could provide informed answers about the internationalization. Archival documents were reviewed and compared with findings from the interviews. The data received from each college were analyzed and each college was placed on a stage of the continuum of organizational internationalization. Data analysis was grounded in the original research questions that addressed the process of internationalization as transformational change. The concept mapping approach was used in order to analyze and clarify findings. The following fundamental steps that are essential for the continuing process of internationalization were identified: leadership and administration involvement and support, resource allocation, internationalization of curriculum through global learning outcomes assessment, internationalization of faculty, creation of structures to ensure synergy among all international activities at Park University as a system, and a holistic approach to internationalization. Recommendations for modifications of internationalization of the curriculum and faculty were presented. The qualitative study was limited to interpretations dependent upon its context and time. The sampling was aimed at insight about the internationalization, not empirical generalization from a sample to a population. The recommendations could be generalized to the people who participated in the case study.

Global Citizenship and the University

Global Citizenship and the University
Author: Robert A. Rhoads
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2011-05-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0804775427

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This book examines faculty and students at four universities around the world to understand the diverse ways individuals experience and define citizenship in the age of globalization.

The Longings and Limits of Global Citizenship Education

The Longings and Limits of Global Citizenship Education
Author: Jeffrey S. Dill
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113669031X

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As the world seemingly gets smaller and smaller, schools around the globe are focusing their attention on expanding the consciousness and competencies of their students to prepare them for the conditions of globalization. Global citizenship education is rapidly growing in popularity because it captures the longings of so many—to help make a world of prosperity, universal benevolence, and human rights in the midst of globalization’s varied processes of change. This book offers an empirical account from the perspective of teachers and classrooms, based on a qualitative study of ten secondary schools in the United States and Asia that explicitly focus on making global citizens. Global citizenship in these schools has two main elements, both global competencies (economic skills) and global consciousness (ethical orientations) that proponents hope will bring global prosperity and peace. However, many of the moral assumptions of global citizenship education are more complex and contradict these goals, and are just as likely to have the unintended consequence of reinforcing a more particular Western individualism. While not arguing against global citizenship education per se, the book argues that in its current forms it has significant limits that proponents have not yet acknowledged, which may very well undermine it in the long run.

Conversations on Global Citizenship Education

Conversations on Global Citizenship Education
Author: Emiliano Bosio
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2021-02-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 100037064X

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This volume offers a remarkable collection of theoretically and practically grounded conversations with internationally recognized scholars, who share their perspectives on Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in relation to university research, teaching, and learning. Conversations on Global Citizenship Education brings together the narratives of a diverse array of educators who share their unique experiences of navigating GCE in the modern university. Conversations focus on why and how educators’ theoretical and empirical perspectives on GCE are essential for achieving an all-embracing GCE curriculum which underpins global peace. Drawing on the Freirean concept of "conscientization", GCE is presented as an educational imperative to combat growing inequality, seeping nationalism, and post-truth politics. This timely volume will be of interest to educators who are seeking to develop their theoretical understanding of GCE into teaching practice, researchers and students who are new to GCE and who seek dynamic starting points for their research, and general audience who are interested in learning more about the history, philosophy, and practice of GCE.

Global Citizenship Education: A Critical Introduction to Key Concepts and Debates

Global Citizenship Education: A Critical Introduction to Key Concepts and Debates
Author: Edda Sant
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2018-02-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1472592441

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Global Citizenship Education explores key ideas and issues within local, national and global dimensions. Including examples and case studies from across the world, the authors draw on ideas, experiences and histories within and beyond 'the West' to contribute to multifaceted perspectives on global citizenship education. In concise chapters, the authors set out the key concepts and debates within the field. Global citizenship education is contextualized within key educational frameworks, including citizenship education, global education, development education and peace education. Edda Sant, Ian Davies, Karen Pashby and Lynette Shultz explore the different ways in which global citizenship can be taught, learned and assessed in formal and informal contexts. Including examples from a wide range of education institutions, chapters provide overviews of policy making and international practices borne out of different approaches to global citizenship education. With each chapter including a summary of key issues, an annotated list of key resources, an exercise for students and a further reading list, Global Citizenship Education will aid understanding of this complex and debated area of study.