Special Education Topics

1. The Classroom as a Global Community

2. Globalization
- Initiate students to learn about people and ideas from all over the
world

3. Globalization
- Leads students to learn to reflect about things and ideas as an entire
and total system.

4. Globalization
- Familiarize students with global matters that will affect their daily
lives.

5. Globalization
- An increase in the scopeand magnitude of human contact with its
subsequent escalation of interaction and interdependence. (Cushner,
McCleland, Safford)

6. Globalization
- Today, global citizens must be able to communicateand collaborate
with those whohave different attitudes, values, knowledge, and
ways ofliving.

7. Bridge-Building Process:
◆A high degree of flexibility
◆A tolerance for ambiguity
◆An understanding of the role culture plays in shaping
thinking and behavior

8. 1.
Educational Implications

9. Educational Implications:
A healthy, well-functioning global society have the ability to think,
perceive, communicate, and behave in new and different ways with
people from many different backgrounds.

10. Educational Implications:
The National Councilfor the Social Studies defines a global perspective as
the development of the knowledge, skills,and attitudes to live effectively
in a diverse world.

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14. 2.
Internationalizing the Disciplines

15. Internationalizing the Disciplines
History and the Social Studies:
Look at various perspectives on similar issuesand
students can askdifficult questions.

16. Internationalizing the Disciplines
Reading and Language Arts:
Include world literature.

17. Internationalizing the Disciplines
Science Education:
Study the naturalenvironment and problems
created by technology and economic
innovations.

18. Internationalizing the Disciplines
MathematicalEducation:
Study the metric system and traditional numeric
systems from other cultures, and math concepts using
world data and global issues.

19. “
In a global education curriculum, students
should study global issues, problemsand
challenges; culture and world areas; the
world.

20. Examples ofSpecific Topics in a Global Education Curriculum
◆ Conflict and its control
◆ Economic systems and international trade
◆ Human rights and social justice
◆ Political Systems
◆ Population