Designed for secondary school teachers who are at the initial stages of teaching global studies or introducing global concepts into their courses, this paper reviews ways (1) to introduce an awareness of global issues and the interdependence of our planet and (2) to develop related cognitive skills. Techniques and materials relevant to this…

This report summarizes a conference that was held as part of a continuing effort to develop methods by which U.S. schools can better respond to challenges in international education for the 1990s. Roughly divided into five parts, the conference minutes outlined: (1) the progress made on resolutions adopted at the conference held one year earlier;…

The purpose of the International Network for Global Education (INGE) is to promote global education within the educational systems of network member countries. Areas of study are listed under the following headings: Peace Studies; East/West Relations; North/South Relations; Human Rights; Global Environment; Human Values; and Cross-cultural Issues.…

Educators attending the 1984 Wingspread Conference discussed major challenges to improving world studies courses and identified strategies for addressing those challenges. The only opportunity the vast majority of American high school students have to obtain formal instruction about the world comes in a survey course of world history offered in…