The Classroom as a Global Community
Globalization
- Initiate students to learn about people and ideas from all over the
world
Globalization
- Leads students to learn to reflect about things and ideas as an entire
and total system.
Globalization
- Familiarize students with global matters that will affect their daily
lives.
Globalization
- An increase in the scopeand magnitude of human contact with its
subsequent escalation of interaction and interdependence. (Cushner,
McCleland, Safford)
Globalization
- Today, global citizens must be able to communicateand collaborate
with those whohave different attitudes, values, knowledge, and
ways ofliving.
Bridge-Building Process:
◆A high degree of flexibility
◆A tolerance for ambiguity
◆An understanding of the role culture plays in shaping
thinking and behavior
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Educational Implications
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.
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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Internationalizing the Disciplines
Internationalizing the Disciplines
History and the Social Studies:
Look at various perspectives on similar issuesand
students can askdifficult questions.
Internationalizing the Disciplines
Reading and Language Arts:
Include world literature.
Internationalizing the Disciplines
Science Education:
Study the naturalenvironment and problems
created by technology and economic
innovations.
Internationalizing the Disciplines
MathematicalEducation:
Study the metric system and traditional numeric
systems from other cultures, and math concepts using
world data and global issues.
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In a global education curriculum, students
should study global issues, problemsand
challenges; culture and world areas; the
world.
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

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