In this adaptable activity, students add research about other regions and cultures to the traditional role-play. Students are given a character, research the lives of people in the area and the issues affecting them, and then develop their ideas about what that character might think about those issues. Giving them the chance to research and learn…

Throughout history, silences have been an inherent process of historical production -- privileged narratives masquerade as definitive history, and those deemed less worthy are mute (Trouillot, 1995). Because of this, our understanding of many events in the past is incomplete; and the way we frame our contemporary societies based on these events…

As a discipline, international education focuses on developing an international consciousness. There are moral and ethical, as well as pragmatic, consequences of the development of an international consciousness: In terms of ethics and morality, international education inculcates positive attitudes towards international understanding and global…

Background/Context: This essay is a part of a special issue that emerges from a year-long faculty seminar at Teachers College, Columbia University. The seminar's purpose has been to examine in fresh terms the nexus of globalization, education, and citizenship. Participants come from diverse fields of research and practice, among them art…

With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field's most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the…

Designing educational sequences that enhance the cognitive, behavioral, and critical skills of a diverse learning community seeking global competencies, requires mindfulness of different international educational models, a tailored curriculum designed to build different types of awareness learning, and clarity in targeted outputs keeping in mind a…

This article proposes a way to expand the study of arts education within new contexts of technology and globalization. Drawing upon theories that have informed arts and aesthetic education in the past, the authors suggest new applications for these ideas to ensure that arts education sustains its significance in twenty-first-century society. The…

As for the heated problem of the Internationalized Higher Education (IHE), the thesis makes a deep research stating the tendency of IHE and focusing on the strategy and the issues that must be paid more attention to in the realization of the Internationalized Higher Education (IHE).

Designing a women's studies course that would be truly interdisciplinary, and not merely multidisciplinary as most such courses usually are, requires an understanding of the fundamental differences between the aims and outlooks of the humanities and the social sciences. The humanities are more concerned with process than product, with judgment…

Makes general and specific recommendations to enhance the capacity of the country's colleges and universities to provide students with global perspectives commensurate with the United States role in world affairs. Recommends comprehensive curriculum reviews, improved coordination in all academic sectors, and special emphasis on the humanities and…

Undergraduate education has not kept pace with knowledge about the role of culture in shaping human and social behavior. The deficiencies can and should be repaired, but some real innovations are essential to the process. Despite the challenge, there is a real opportunity to parlay research advances emerging out of the recent "cultural turn" in a…

The main purpose of this curriculum unit is to deconstruct stereotypes about Mexico and Mejicano/a people through the study of history, literature, and social realities. The curriculum unit is aimed at secondary humanities teachers and would be appropriate for team teaching. It includes a pre-unit and post-unit lesson, and 10 lessons that focus on…

Discusses the development of a twentieth century world history course, its possibilities, pitfalls, and rationale. Includes a course outline, readings, audio-visual materials, and discussion topics. (GEA)

Describes goals and educational objectives for the global perspectives project and its humanities component. Enumerates four basic concepts and three ideas for basic skills development. Presents a sample social studies curriculum for K-12, expanding student horizons from a study of self to a study of the world. (CK)

The purpose of this article is to examine current arts and humanities elementary school textbooks in Taiwan and to make recommendations for the future. Using the paradigms of curriculum integration of Beane, Berton, Jacobs, and Snyder as a basis, the article compares selected current arts and humanities texts in both Taiwan and the USA, noting,…