"NASSP Bulletin" editor Tom Koerner poses questions about the relative importance of international education to 10 people from several educational fields. Most agree that including an international perspective is not anti-American, but enables students to understand the issues confronting our country and the world. Curriculum development and…

Social studies curricula should be based on a provincial-universal principle of maintaining a continuous interaction between the local community and the world community. It is suggested here that those who are already doing this can contribute by offering suggestions to others trying to implement the world principle in their classrooms. Those who…

Economic understanding is a necessary component of high quality coursework devoted to international issues and U.S. and world history and geography. A secondary program should cover specialization and exchange, barriers to trade, balance of payment and exchange rates, international aspects of growth and stability, and economic systems. (MLH)

Whether environmental education will provide a major thrust in the search for uniquely African education will depend primarily on how Africans define environmental education. The practical implications of environmental education for schools and communities will also affect its usefulness. (RE)

This paper explores some of the reasons why global perspectives education has not found its way into the school curriculum. Also it offers some strategies for implementing global perspectives education in school programs. (BW)

A modestly financed, vigorously administered program of international studies at Emory University is described. The Emory Program in International Studies offers undergraduate courses (but no degree), sponsors lectures and programs, provides summer stipends for faculty to develop new courses, and publishes a monthly newsletter. (MLW)

International education on college campuses is discussed in terms of its definition, its content dilemma in a rapidly changing world, utilization of the interdependence-diversity paradox to organize curriculum development, and programmatic issues such as inclusion of international issues within disciplines to build a multidisciplinary focus on…

As part of a broad effort to develop qualities and attitudes of mind implied by phrases such as "global perspective" and "worldmindedness," this paper considers the main practical and theoretical questions which are likely to arise in developing a world studies unit in secondary schools. Three major sections comprise the paper. The first section…

World order education (a special variety of peace studies) is a legitimate part of a social studies curriculum. (Author/DW)

Schools are not presently educating children for life in a future, globally oriented society. The challenge is to include the following elements into every child's basic education: (1) an international dimension and a global perspective; (2) understanding and respect for all peoples, cultures, civilizations, values, and ways of life; (3) awareness…

Seeks to define world history through an analysis of its historical antecedents. Concentrates on the efforts of three historians--Louis Moreau, William H. McNeill, and Leften S. Stavrianos--to establish world history's place in education. Analyzes the relationship between world history, peace, and global education and the state of world history in…

This paper discusses the first international conference on the future of education in Russia held in Sochi, Russia, in September of 1991. The focus was on recent efforts that have been made by educators to develop global education in Russian schools. These efforts include a detailed project for the development of global education in Russia and…

Community colleges are in a strategic position to educate citizens to understand international developments, as they provide educational experiences to a large number of grass-roots Americans. In the past, community colleges have placed little emphasis on international understanding because of lack of commitment to international understanding as…

The project group, "Preparedness for Peace," at the Malmo School of Education in Sweden studies ways of helping children and young people to deal constructively with questions of war and peace. As part of this work, experts with special interests and competence in areas related to peace education are interviewed. This interview explores…

Some national initiatives taken by the Department of Education to demonstrate its commitment to international education are discussed. What is needed is a conscious effort to overhaul the educational experience by taking a fresh look at existing curricular offerings, at textbooks, at syllabi, and at the quality of language teaching. (MLW)